Curious to get the pulse from lemmy on where y’all look to for your various sources of news.

  • communism@lemmy.ml
    2·
    4 hours ago

    A centrist mainstream national newspaper to be aware of what the political mainstream is concerned about.

    Al Jazeera for international news.

    Articles sent to me by friends and comrades for news on more specific matters that may not make more mainstream news.

    And groupchats and internal publications of organisations I’m in for both more politically-relevant news (eg news of local strikes that often aren’t otherwise reported on) and commentary.

  • DigitalDilemma@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    4 hours ago

    About ten separate sources. A little bit of right, a little bit of left, some national, some international. I find this really exposes the bias some sources put on stories, and after a while you can tell which source it is just by words used in the headline and even by what news they don’t report.

    Some good suggestions in this thread, I’ll be adding some new feeds.

  • Outdated4134@lemmy.zip
    1·
    6 hours ago

    Lemmy primarily, Podcasts, The Daily Show, Google News, Bluesky a little

    Don’t you dare downvote me for the Google News. I KNOW.

    • umbrella@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 hours ago

      thanks for introducing me to that list. at worst this makes for an excellent overview.

  • Bz1sen@lemmy.world
    3·
    17 hours ago

    For any German, correctiv should be a must go to…although it’s not necessarily daily news but rather weekly and investigative journalism. Politico.eu for europeans, deutschlandfunk, Tagesschau, lemmy, reddit

    But as some people have hinted as well… Visiting news sites nowadays can only make you depressed really…

  • HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    14·
    9 hours ago
    • Democracy Now!
    • DW (Germany)
    • France 24
    • PBS / NPR
    • Global News (Canada)
    • propublica
    • AP
    • Al Jazeera
    • BBC World News
    • various youtubers for niche or more world / non western news and geopolitics and trade etc
    • lemmy
  • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    17 hours ago

    I mostly don’t follow the news; I value my mental health too much for that these days…

  • Bloomcole@lemmy.ml
    5·
    23 hours ago

    OK, partly off topic: I’m new here and in the fediverse in general. Trying to find out what is what and where I want to be part of.
    So I figure I go to Ask Lemmy, where I see your question and found it interesting.
    To my surprise, since I was under the impression lemmy.ml was a real leftist place I see mostly horrible MSM sources.
    Was I wrong?

    • sudoer777@lemmy.ml
      6·
      19 hours ago

      lemmy.ml federates with almost all instances most of which aren’t leftist, the admins are leftist as is a lot of the local userbase, but the moderation varies between communities and this one tends to be one of the more permissive ones. If you want one that’s more exclusively leftist you’re probably looking for Hexbear or Lemmygrad.

    • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      23 hours ago

      While what you said isn’t untrue, .ml does Bill itself as a general purpose instance. Also, not all the replies are from accounts on .ml.

      In a more general sense, I always felt that only reading sources that alligned with one’s political alignment narrowed one’s perspective.

      • Bloomcole@lemmy.ml
        2·
        22 hours ago

        Thanks for the info.

        In a more general sense, I always felt that only reading sources that alligned with one’s political alignment narrowed one’s perspective.

        Definitely, I’m certainly not looking for an echo chamber. It is exactly the opposite since it’s very rare to find something outside the common MSM and social media narrative. Hence the dissapointment with all the news sources mentioned here.

        Also the left ones I know have less ‘pulp’, ‘trivial’ -or whatever you can call it- posts and more interesting subjects not covered elsewhere. I am also constantly surprised and impressed with the knowledge the users have. They know their stuff, put effort into replies, provide sources and useful info on sometimes very specific topics or events in history. It’s vastly more educational.