General news, niche hobby news, anything - what sources do you regularly read?
I spend a couple of hours each morning with coffee exploring a majority selection of these sites to get a quality overview.You can take vice of that list soon.
Why what happened?
Couple of hours… each morning? Did you win the lottery or something?
Not OP, but I am in a blue collar job and do the same. I get up at 4am and between brewing then drinking my coffee, eating a small breakfast, using the facilities, and doing general stuff getting ready to go to work, I then leave about 615am and clock in by 7am. I either read or listen to the news the whole time, or in this case, I also replied to your comment.
A series of news weirdos on social media, a critical reading of major news outlets, issue-specific advocacy groups, individual journalists on YouTube etc, and criticism orgs line FAIR
to news weirdos.
AP, BBC, and NPR for general news. Been on the hunt for some English language news covering the rest of the world and provide an outside look at US news.
Facebook feed of 60+ raptor rescues and wildlife photography groups and Google News search for owl news to post to !superbowl@lemmy.world
Lemmy Top 6 Hours for any breaking news and news about stuff I wouldn’t normally look for.
If anything really catches my eye, I’ll generally Google it to get at least one other article from a different source to get more info or a second take on the story.
I dont consume news actively. I stopped watching tv and listening to radio because of ads and news. Both are not great for my mental health. Too stressful, too manipulative.
When something pops up in the fedi, I read it. If it becomes too much, I mute it.
Generally my policy is that if it’s news I need to hear, it will find its way to me one way or another. I need not go seeking it out. I will look up something I’ve heard if I want more info, but I don’t read news for its own sake.
The great bulk of news that reaches me being second, third, fourth-hand and beyond means I’m not well-informed about anything. But at least I’m not wasting brain cells on whatever dumb shit <celebrity> did, or what shit <politician> said, or what breakthrough <scientist> made that does not remotely lead to the conclusion the article implies, or some journalist’s speculative opinion piece masquerading as news.
If I could just get a dry listing of everything that happened the previous day, only including events of actual consequence like “law passed” or “person died” or “business discontinues product/service”, and leaving behind any event that can be effectively retold as “<person> scrawled message on public toilet stall” (like many celebrity and political articles) or anticipation pieces that try to predict future events, I’d be satisfied.
https://old.meneame.net (ES-es)
Pretty bad site to view controversial content, mods have an agenda and censor.
Google News app mostly. Voyager for news with entertainment.
Basically the same. Just that I use the apple news app. Most of it is the major news organizations. Ap, Reuters, things like that
Personally I don’t like reading news very much, I just keep various live news feeds up in the background while I do other things. Typically Al Jazeera English, but they rerun segments pretty often throughout the day, at which point I’ll just turn it off, or switch over to CGTN. Occasionally I’ll watch MSNBC or CNN if they aren’t being ultra cringe (rare occurrence) for more US focused coverage, though I can hardly stand to watch either for very long.
Try DW news. I’ve found it fantastic. Also just as good for written news.
CBC and Lemmy
Lemmy, lemmy and lemmy
I never read articles for my news. I almost exclusively watch TLDR news on YouTube. Very impartial and intentionally neutral. Just the facts and zero inflammatory language or strong emotions, which is what I hated most about other news outlets.
They sometimes miss the nuance of certain situations but comments will usually provide sufficient insight on anything they miss.
Repeats of The Simpsons
The comment section of kimcartoon.li informs me of everything I need to know about the world
RSS and Lemmy
Ground New, News Minimalist, RSS
Mostly RSS for me, incidentally there is a publlic rss api on reddit. You can add
.rssto any subreddit URL to get a feed. It’s a nice way to get news from there without actually having to use reddit.NPR, BBC, Al Jazeera, listen to a daily set of audio briefs from those sources. There is a significant bias in all of them, offset by tempering of social media sources.
