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Are there newspapers that: 1. Don't dox private individuals for no good reason (rules out NYT, Washington Post, and Forbes) 2. Have ethical business practices
by lkbm 2y ago
Are there newspapers that:
1. Don't dox private individuals for no good reason (rules out NYT, Washington Post, and Forbes)
2. Have ethical business practices around a subscriptions, such as letting you cancel easily? (Rules out the thousands of local papers owned by USA Today)
3. Have basic fact-checking (rules out...almost everything?)
ProPublica seems like the best, especially since I consider investigative journalism extremely important. I've heard good things about Bloomberg, but it's extremely expensive. The Atlantic and The Economist have traditionally had pretty good content, and I at least haven't noticed them violating basic journalistic or business ethics.
- dingnuts 2y agofact checking is always so ideologically fraught (which is why it rules out everyone) that I have given up and instead just try to hear every narrative. They aren't of equal weight, of course, but it's good for unpassionate understanding of the different warring perspectives. A great place to start, IMHO, is allsides.com and an RSS reader.
- kkylin 2y agoI really like the Financial Times. It was a breath of fresh air compared to other newspapers. If nothing else, I liked the tone: matter of fact, no drama. But it's (i) not cheap; and (ii) canceling was a bit harder than subscribing. (I found I wasn't reading it enough to justify the cost. Subscribing was easy but canceling required a phone call -- bit of unnecessary but understandable friction.)
- yawgmoth 2y agoYes, there are regional papers that don't often cover large stories that achieve your criteria. At least there are a couple I can think of, LGBT papers in particular.