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  • You guys don't let a bunch of strangers in the internet curate the news for you, then fight them in the comments?

    • Well, actually, that's exactly what I do.

    • Absolutely not. I upvote all the people I agree with initially then down vote the dumbass who tried to go against us in our own thread!

      Get your own damn thread down lower! Quit mooching our beans way up at the top.

  • AP, unless the article is about a protest

    Aljazeera, unless the article is about Qatar

    Reuters, unless the article is about non-G20 countries

    BBC, unless the article is about the UK

    CBC, unless the article is about Canada

  • I don't. I try to life in blissful arrogance despite knowning that the world around me is going to heck. I only care about local news that considers my city.

  • I like watching Phillip DeFranco in YouTube Invidious. When covering major stories he is very good at delivering crutial information simply and quickly, and while he does have opinions, they are always very transparent, so you can spot the bias from the facts. Also, he has a habit of correcting the rare mistakes this beautiful bastard makes.

    • Ah I remember watching him years ago, good to know he's still around. Although it looks like he does more internet drama videos rather than real-world news

      • It's 50/50, he normally covers drama news first, and saves the big stories for the back end, he always includes timestamps, so if that's not your thing you can skip around.

  • I'm honestly not too picky about my source unless it's a source I know little about and can't gauge their slant or bias, or if they're a known propaganda pusher or right wing fearmonger. Honestly though I've been trying to avoid following the news in general because it doesn't put me in a good state of mind, and usually if it's important enough to know about, I'll hear about it one way or another.

    One bad habit I've been trying to kick every since leaving reddit though is trying not to read the comments of any given news article without reading the article, or verifying the known facts. A lot of times in the past, I would see a distressing headline, pick out details from the comments, and form an opinion based on the discourse which is not a healthy way to approach current events. Now if I'm going to get invested in a particular event or situation, It's going to be after I have a good grasp of the details free from influence from the comments on how I should feel about something.

    One of my biggest pet peeves though is someone posting a paywalled article, and noone providing anyway to access the article. Too often that would be the article that would hit the front page, which made all the more clear to me that many people were doing the same unhealthy thing I was.

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