If there’s developing news, I go to the Washington Post website. I’m a subscriber. Their coverage is thorough and objective, allowing me to get the facts and form my own opinions.
@davemark major breaking events get discussed everywhere, I don't worry about missing them, i'm sure to hear about them.
I worry about minor local interest events. I care that a park in my city is closed this week while they repair the play surface. I care about the.fire department pancake breakfast. I care about the 'music in the park' events. I care about the dog catcher election. Odds are you don't live anywhere near me and don't want to hear about those, instead you want similar events in your community. I have not found a good source for this. (The local newspaper is owned by USA today and has their lack of quality in reporting)
@davemark You can watch TV at the network sites, so its hard to miss them. But I’ve never liked the emphasis on “breaking news” as it’s so often wrong. I like the BBC, Guardian, AlJazeera, NPR, and Washington Post.
I miss the insightful sources on twitter curated by experts I followed. I’m ooking for a Russia Wagner hashtag, do you know of a good one?
@davemark I actively use Apple News and Google News. I find out about stuff in the moment from Mastodon (formerly Twitter) and then follow up with a trip to Apple or Google News. I don’t use TV or radio at all for news.
@davemark we get our news online, really, but we currently use Hulu Live TV. During hockey season, we switch to Fubo, because it has MSG, and we can watch the Rangers, but after the first round of the playoffs, we switch to Hulu, because Fubo doesn’t get the TNT channels.
For big news events, I tend to look in the News app first - they often present multiple articles together, which is better than sifting through Google, or relying on one source.
@davemark I get about 40 channels with my roof antenna, incl. NPR, CBS, ABC, NBC. As a German speaker I also get a lot of news from free ZDF and ARD Mediatheks. YouTube also has some of the CNN shows.
@davemark Woah, We have a name now? 'Cord cutters'? Interesting, because TV in the UK is broadcast not cable, so giving up TV doesn't involve cutting any cords. I presume 'cord cutter' is a reference to 'cable' being mainstream in the USA, rather than an expensive additional subscription like it is here in the UK? In any case I have found the important news ends up being discussed by my friends online. I then scout around various news websites, from various nations, and try and take into account what I know of the bias of each, and form my own perspective based on that. I have some sources I trust more than others, depending on the topic being discussed, but no one source I trust implicitly.
@toni Must be a US thing, heh. It's come to mean, giving up all the adding, having your internet service serve ONLY as access to the internet with a la carte signups for all your services on-line.
@davemark For the record, I have been without a TV for the last 30 years in the UK, except for one year in the middle of that where I mostly used it to watch 'Cartoon Network' to unwind. Even during that year I did not use it for News. TV News was always a bad and very propaganda heavy way to ingest News from my perspective.
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