Where do you get your news?
Where do you get your news?
Recently I've really only been reading the NYTimes. Since I lean mostly toward left-wing libertarianism, the NYTimes probably reinforces much of what I already have a predisposition for believing/thinking. Any recommendations for diversification? Or simply, other than the NYTimes, what do you read (or listen to)?
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NPR mostly, for everything but sports.
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The Onion. Mercilessly accurate.
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Google News and ZeroHedge
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Der Spiegel / Zerohedge. Once a week TV news on Aljazeera/ BBC.
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- Flipboard and News360 are great agregators.
- Bloomberg is about the best TV news, but still has a lot of useless stuff.
- Vice is great for 60 Minutes style reporting, while 60 Minutes has turned into a bunch old people the world has passed by.
- The Big Picture and The Reformed Broker blogs have great business article reading lists every day.
- My favorite is Twitter. If you follow the right people you will get intelligent articles that aren't just based on political belief systems. It will take a while to sort through the chaff, but it's worth it.
- Bloomberg is about the best TV news, but still has a lot of useless stuff.
- Vice is great for 60 Minutes style reporting, while 60 Minutes has turned into a bunch old people the world has passed by.
- The Big Picture and The Reformed Broker blogs have great business article reading lists every day.
- My favorite is Twitter. If you follow the right people you will get intelligent articles that aren't just based on political belief systems. It will take a while to sort through the chaff, but it's worth it.
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@Chad -- No Alex Jones or Drudge?
In addition to the sites mentioned, I also check sites like Irish Times, Russia Times, Times of Israel, and Der Spiegel regularly.
In addition to the sites mentioned, I also check sites like Irish Times, Russia Times, Times of Israel, and Der Spiegel regularly.
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I somehow manage to miss those guys on a regular basis.jennypenny wrote:@Chad -- No Alex Jones or Drudge?
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Through Feedly, Reddit and Facebook. In that order, probably. Feedly feeds include Pacific Standard, Bloomberg, CNN and NPR.
G loves Fox news. And I hate it! We have had many lively debates about the definition of "news."
G loves Fox news. And I hate it! We have had many lively debates about the definition of "news."
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Funny you say that because I was thinking that maybe I should watch/read some conservative/right-leaning news sources for once, but then is FOX news even "news" or just sensationalism dressed up as right-wing news.GandK wrote:G loves Fox news. And I hate it! We have had many lively debates about the definition of "news."
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NPR, in the car, and sometimes streaming.
And whatever shows up and looks interesting on google news, for written stuff.
And whatever shows up and looks interesting on google news, for written stuff.
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Most/all news sources cater to the neurochemistry of their users. Speaking in generalities, ...
Right wing news tend to be tribal, folksy and common sense oriented and confirm the group identity. Left-wing (US liberal) news tend to be "cerebral", intellectual, individual, and confirm the "we're so much smarter because we think"-identity. Professional financial news tend to be of a "this was different from expectations"-oriented (also very short-clipped.. X says ...)). Layman financial news is the opposite "it's just what you expected, keep doing the same thing".
The point is that news is not news.---That news are irrelevant. It's not what's being presented but how it's being presented. News is just provides the feedstock for the consistent propaganda<-the narrative that explains your particular place in the world and how you should feel and act. You will want to know what "those other guys" are thinking. 99% of people have no independent thinking processes. They will just repeat what they saw somewhere. Read wide and you'll know what they'll say before they do.
If such knowledge is of no interest to you, I'd say you don't have much need for so-called "news". Consider not following any news at all. Almost all of it doesn't matter anyway(*). If it's important, you'll figure it out from some other source. You can learn a lot more by inserting a 5 year delay. Start reading any news paper archive from 5+ years ago. Following the news wastes a lot of reading time which could be more productively spent reading text books.
(*) My favorite example is the war on terror as it pertains to first world living. Suppose you had been exposed to no news whatsoever for the past 15 years. How would you know about it? You'd have very little idea wouldn't you?
Right wing news tend to be tribal, folksy and common sense oriented and confirm the group identity. Left-wing (US liberal) news tend to be "cerebral", intellectual, individual, and confirm the "we're so much smarter because we think"-identity. Professional financial news tend to be of a "this was different from expectations"-oriented (also very short-clipped.. X says ...)). Layman financial news is the opposite "it's just what you expected, keep doing the same thing".
The point is that news is not news.---That news are irrelevant. It's not what's being presented but how it's being presented. News is just provides the feedstock for the consistent propaganda<-the narrative that explains your particular place in the world and how you should feel and act. You will want to know what "those other guys" are thinking. 99% of people have no independent thinking processes. They will just repeat what they saw somewhere. Read wide and you'll know what they'll say before they do.
If such knowledge is of no interest to you, I'd say you don't have much need for so-called "news". Consider not following any news at all. Almost all of it doesn't matter anyway(*). If it's important, you'll figure it out from some other source. You can learn a lot more by inserting a 5 year delay. Start reading any news paper archive from 5+ years ago. Following the news wastes a lot of reading time which could be more productively spent reading text books.
(*) My favorite example is the war on terror as it pertains to first world living. Suppose you had been exposed to no news whatsoever for the past 15 years. How would you know about it? You'd have very little idea wouldn't you?
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I often just come here. Someone will mention it if it seems to be of interest.
And my children will show me pictures of dresses and videos of llamas.
And my children will show me pictures of dresses and videos of llamas.
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This might be really interesting. I subscribed to the Economist for a few years, it is delivered once a week. I was always a few numbers behind, so I was effectively reading news from three weeks to a month ago. A quite different experience from the instantly delivered news most people seem to "need".jacob wrote:You can learn a lot more by inserting a 5 year delay. Start reading any news paper archive from 5+ years ago.
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Do friends, colleagues, neighbors, and family members who either fought or worked overseas in relevant areas as contractors count as "news" sources that are excluded per your groundrule? Maybe it's more of a southern thing, but it seems like everyone around this part of the country has some reasonably close personal connection to the conflicts in Iraq, Afganistan, etc. Not that they're a great source for comprehensive news, but through them it has been apparent something is going on.jacob wrote:
(*) My favorite example is the war on terror as it pertains to first world living. Suppose you had been exposed to no news whatsoever for the past 15 years. How would you know about it? You'd have very little idea wouldn't you?
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+1IlliniDave wrote:Do friends, colleagues, neighbors, and family members who either fought or worked overseas in relevant areas as contractors count as "news" sources that are excluded per your groundrule? Maybe it's more of a southern thing, but it seems like everyone around this part of the country has some reasonably close personal connection to the conflicts in Iraq, Afganistan, etc. Not that they're a great source for comprehensive news, but through them it has been apparent something is going on.jacob wrote:
(*) My favorite example is the war on terror as it pertains to first world living. Suppose you had been exposed to no news whatsoever for the past 15 years. How would you know about it? You'd have very little idea wouldn't you?
One negative of being an introvert IMO is potentially being out of the loop and not getting news from pertinent social groups. I've learned from the trading group I'm in that news from the grapevine can be very useful. We've created our own grapevine here, but I think I's are at a disadvantage when it comes to informal news.
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TBH I get most of my news from Twitter... lol
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To quote myself:IlliniDave wrote: Do friends, colleagues, neighbors, and family members who either fought or worked overseas in relevant areas as contractors count as "news" sources that are excluded per your groundrule?
Specifically, if you know people directly involved, it's important to them and by relation probably to you, and you'll figure out from them that something is going on. If you do not know ... and have no personal impact ... it's probably not important to you regardless of whether it's headline material.jacob wrote: If such knowledge is of no interest to you, I'd say you don't have much need for so-called "news". Consider not following any news at all. Almost all of it doesn't matter anyway(*). If it's important, you'll figure it out from some other source.
News is some combination of signal and noise and the ground rule says that for standard news sources noise >> signal to the point that what newspapers consider important is almost irrelevant to you. Whereas for the things you pick up yourself and from your relations, signal >> noise so this is what you should be paying attention to.
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There are a couple of semi-public figures I am friends with on Facebook who curate current events stories on their walls. Also I follow several geo-political strategy type blogs that keep me in the loop (ZenPundit, Global Guerillas, Feral Jundi etc). I probably listed to NPR on my morning drive into work twice a week. That's pretty much it.