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As European I read news from various sources, international news from France24, BBC, RT, Epoch Times, Al Jazeera and Channel News Asia, none of these are US cen
by Markoff 4y ago
As European I read news from various sources, international news from France24, BBC, RT, Epoch Times, Al Jazeera and Channel News Asia, none of these are US centric and I can find articles which are interesting plus I follow few selected national sites to see news from my current and home country, though I am well aware of agenda they are pushing, but at least some of them have comments section so that's fun. It's for sure more fun than reading heavily censored r/worldnews or r/europe where you can't say anything against reddit hivemind without being downvoted into oblivion (not that HN would be very different from it, I find actually national news sites to have more tolerant people against diverse opinions than Reddit/HN).
I don't really take news that seriously considering quality of MSM, so I don't see it as detriment, it's fun and waste of time. Sure if you have better things to do and enjoy them more then you hardly need to follow any news and spend more than 5-10 minutes per day to stay informed.
I went dark during travel when you have obviously much better things to do and it's not really important toi stay in picture other than know current border situation in your location, but since I am settled now I take news as fun and I don't mind. If I felt bad about what I read I would stop reading it, I am not masochist. I don't really use Twitter and don't have FB for many years.