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I subscribe to a bunch of email newsletters. Read them during breakfast until I finish eating, which means I usually end up deleting about half of 'em. I think Tangle might be the best bet, as it tries to be middle ground and tries to provide context behind what both sides are saying. I'm also kinda a fan of "WhatTheFuckHappenedToday", mainly because it's brief & direct.

https://www.readtangle.com/

https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/

Perhaps not oddly, I struggle to find free Conservative news sources. All the 'good' ones requires a paid subscription. How conservative of them! =D If someone has some suggestions, I'm down to just Fox at this point, and it's like they put the interns in & aren't bothering to chaperone them anymore.

By being inflammatory online and having people seething and providing info.

I like Ground News, the paid tiers give you a lot of info about each source that is covering the story.

I wake up to NPR Morning Edition, which is by no means perfect but it gives me a general rundown of what to be depressed about today.

And they were the first major news organization to start calling Trump's lies "lies."

I just hope, now that they've lost the funding from the administration, they can stop pulling their punches trying to keep from losing it. If so, I'll double my donation, though tbf it's a pittance.

What I'd really like would be if they never aired his slimy voice again. Summarize his actions, quote him if necessary, since it's important for points of hypocrisy and idiocy and narcissism. But spare my pre-coffee soul from that mealy whine.

Most of my news I end up getting here, tumblr, and discord shitposting channels.

I have a very warped perception of current events I think.

All of them are biased. The question is whether they report with awareness of their bias, or if they try to hide it by claiming to be unbiased.

I try not to tbh.

I'm a supporter of a few non-profit local news sources and they've been awesome.

I've been liking https://legiblenews.com/ but NPR marketplace and morning edition has been amazing for a traditonal source (I love https://text.npr.org/ too, not enough sites offer that amazing of UX) for national/world news. BBC World Service is pretty good too.

Ground News is nice for its blindspot feature but I think I'll be sending my money elsewhere when renewal hits.

I have a local newspaper for my municipality every morning.

It mostly deals with local news that doesn't reach the big news outlets. It's slow to report world events (which I like to think is because they actually bother to confirm events before printing). It balances upsetting reports with feel-good and positive stories, and informs me of happenings (markets, small festivals, historical celebrations, crafting, classes and other events) locally that I would never hear about any other way.

AP news.

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I have a few independent journalists/newspapers that I trust, so I sign up for their newsletters or follow them on substack. But they're not free of bias, nothing is. They do their best to be factual though.

I also use mediabiasfactcheck.com if I'm looking at news sources apart from the usual ones I follow. And like someone else said, I use GroundNews once in a while if I want to get an idea of how others are reporting on big events.

I do everything in my power to not know what is going on with current events. I do this to protect my sanity because nobody reports on a good thing that happened without first bombarding you with a thousand horrible things that happened.

My personal life is already shit enough. I do not need to know about all of the shit going on outside of my personal life on top of it.

Mostly but there are others

• Guardian
• Al Jazeera
• 404 Media
• BBC America

It depends on what I am looking to learn about but I use the Peoples Dispatch often. It is very left leaning and has great coverage of the global south. There is no such a thing as unbiased reporting, you must consume media critically with an understanding of the writer's biases. Taking into consideration who pays the writer and how they get the money to do so is also very valuable.

The guardian is good too and is one of the few western sources I trust. For most things atleast

!postillon@feddit.org

It's satire (similar to the Onion), but reflects on real events.

France 24

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IME, as many as you can handle and for the most part, trust. The Guardian is probably one of the best, but still shits out a huge turd like today's Obama story. If it's 80% pretty good, then I'll keep checking them, the rest are left to others to comb through.

c/asklemmy

If I’m looking for news I just go to BBC. If I’m looking for news about a current event and want it quicker if less reliable I go to Sky News. I sometimes go to Fox News just to see what they’re talking about. I read other sites when I’m linked to them but if I’m just looking to see what’s happening in the world I use these.