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I have been wondering with the total slop that is social media where to get well written and interesting news from. I am not only interested in tech or politics but other topics as well. What are your suggestions?

Comments (14)

jlongr · 48m ago

I get most of my news from NPR or BBC. I don't subscribe to either but I used to subscribe to Economist. It's still good but the writing style and tone is cloying.

I've been considering Financial Times to replace it.

robtherobber · 4h ago

Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/

marvel_boy · 4h ago

The Information for technical news. https://www.theinformation.com/about

khurs · 3h ago

None.

paulcole · 2h ago

WSJ, NYT, and Apple News+

faebi · 4h ago

None. I find the quality and mostly left wing bias in the current state unacceptable. Too little neutral reporting and way too much subtle opinion making on the current thing.

jlongr · 55m ago

Bait used to be believable.

cookiemonsieur · 4h ago

> I find the quality and mostly left wing bias in the current state unacceptable

Except when it comes to current geopolitics that is, now we're talking delusionally right wing bias. wink wink

the__alchemist · 3h ago

None of the general news sources are worth paying for. "Gell-Mann Amnesia" applies broadly. They depict a perpetual drama. Each focuses from a different perspective, at the same dramatis personae. It's set up this way so viewers can follow, and be entertained. They know the plot threads, the characters, themes, the possible twists to watch for. This is similar to any TV series or cinematic universe. (e.g. Superheros, Tolkien-style fantasy etc)

The themes change over time, but in a gradual, controlled manner. And (nearly) all perspectives point at the latest.

Specialist news sources are sometimes high quality. For example: Quanta magazine, which articles we see frequently here. Ground news is an aggregator that tries to balance out the Left/Right bias of news outlets, but I think this misses the point.

bediger4000 · 2h ago

Philadelphia Inquirer, it's owned by a foundation, not a billionaire. I mostly use it for access to daily comic strips.

Colorado Sun, it's a non-profit. I think it was started by refugees from the Rocky Mountain News, after that failed. Mostly general Colorado news, so it's fairly local in scope for these modern times.

incomingpain · 4h ago

About a year ago I still had a few newspapers that I trusted. Reuters, National Post, CTV, financial times, etc.

Today, each one of those have fell. They each provided examples of bias exceeding my threshold. There was a shocking slip of quality in the last 2 years at all of these.

I trust none of them anymore. Journalism has fallen to their own BS.

v5v3 · 2h ago

Yes. None can be trusted.

Top tip - use the web browser translation function to read news websites that are non-english from countries around the world. That way you get some balance.

cookiemonsieur · 3h ago

> There was a shocking slip of quality in the last 2 years at all of these.

The timeline seems to be coinciding with a certain event that happened in 2023

mynti · 4h ago

my problem is that I often find some of the articles from big newspapers interesting but never enough to shill out 50 bucks or so a month for their subscription. And subscribing to multiple just is not an option for me currently