In short, I'm looking for a better comprehensive news source.
Currently, I get most of my daily news from the New York Times, but I've really grown to hate it. I don't watch television news (if I ever do, it's BBC news, but that's rare). The NYT has become nothing more than social media and plays its cards too openly in terms of its obvious biases. It's also getting more and more sloppy in terms of editing. It's been a long decline, and I can't stomach it anymore.
I love reading The Economist as a news source, but frankly, when I read that thoroughly every week I have zero time for reading anything else since it's so dense. So, I no longer subscribe to that. I like that publication because the global coverage is very comprehensive (albeit Euro-centric).
What news sites do you like? Any recommendations?
Fighting the urge to bury my head in the sand in terms of current world events. All coverage is so gloom and doom it's hard to maintain any hope. But deep down I want to believe that is all a ploy to keep people apathetic and frozen.
I ask this here because I think that as a cohort fans of TC tend to be pretty smart.
Post by demonsandghosts on Jul 7, 2018 2:02:51 GMT 1
So are saying “the failing New York Times” just kidding. I’m too busy for reading and TV but if I have a chance I will watch MSNBC they obviously lean to the left but it’s still honest unlike FOX NEWS which is fantasyland state run tv.
I like Vice on HBO they cover world topics it is so hard to find a news source willing to cover global news.
So are saying “the failing New York Times” just kidding. I’m too busy for reading and TV but if I have a chance I will watch MSNBC they obviously lean to the left but it’s still honest unlike FOX NEWS which is fantasyland state run tv.
I like Vice on HBO they cover world topics it is so hard to find a news source willing to cover global news.
Ha ha, yep, that's the one!
Hmmm, can't do t.v. news for a few reasons, one of which is hating the idea of t.v. and sitting still for long enough to watch anything. Looking for a news source I can read, but thanks for the suggestion!
Also, I can't take MSNBC seriously when they are basically just used as background noise in airports, restaurants, etc., etc. I view them as the left-leaning version of Fox News, whether or not that is a fair characterization.
Never heard of Vice before, but after looking it up it seems it focuses weekly on a different topic? Sounds OK for an in-depth show on one thing, but I'm looking for comprehensive global coverage, if that exists outside the big sites like NYT, WaPo, BBC, etc. Save
I would avoid vice. It's utter carp really. The Guardian's pretty good, although some of their reviewers have their heads firmly jammed up their backsides. I am a member of Fark which is quite a good place to sift through various news outlets.
So are saying “the failing New York Times” just kidding. I’m too busy for reading and TV but if I have a chance I will watch MSNBC they obviously lean to the left but it’s still honest unlike FOX NEWS which is fantasyland state run tv.
I like Vice on HBO they cover world topics it is so hard to find a news source willing to cover global news.
Ha ha, yep, that's the one!
Hmmm, can't do t.v. news for a few reasons, one of which is hating the idea of t.v. and sitting still for long enough to watch anything. Looking for a news source I can read, but thanks for the suggestion!
Also, I can't take MSNBC seriously when they are basically just used as background noise in airports, restaurants, etc., etc. I view them as the left-leaning version of Fox News, whether or not that is a fair characterization.
Never heard of Vice before, but after looking it up it seems it focuses weekly on a different topic? Sounds OK for an in-depth show on one thing, but I'm looking for comprehensive global coverage, if that exists outside the big sites like NYT, WaPo, BBC, etc. Save
I have to disagree with you on the FOX NEWS MSNBC comparison (respectfully). Although it is true Fox leans right and MSNBC leans left MSNBC accurately reports the news where Fox blatantly creates stories and misrepresents news stories to favor their agenda I have never seen MSNBC inaccurately report a story. MSNBC does offer editorial from their anchors but so does FOX and it is only in their editorial where they are similar to compare from left and right.
I find the MSNBC is left version of FOX to be a weak argument because until MSNBC starts reporting fiction as news like FOX does then that comparison can be made.
Just look at it this way, here in the US the civil war is on the horizon certain parts of this country do not agree with certain other parts of this country and I don’t think that is ever going to change.
Oh, well I can't say something about FOX News, MSNBC or THE NEW YORK TIMES, sorry. Only about German newspapers like Spiegel, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and so on. I'm reading Spiegel and Sueddeutsche online, from time to time, it depends on the main topic, I'm buying the Spiegel.
On television I'm watching the Tagesschau (Tagesthemen) or Heute (Heute Journal).
I walk wondering why, the same dream so many times
Oh, well I can't say something about FOX News, MSNBC or THE NEW YORK TIMES, sorry. Only about German newspapers like Spiegel, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and so on. I'm reading Spiegel and Sueddeutsche online, from time to time, it depends on the main topic, I'm buying the Spiegel.
On television I'm watching the Tagesschau (Tagesthemen) or Heute (Heute Journal).
Hi Silversand, I wish I knew what any of the publications and broadcasts meant, I know zero about German politics so I’m not sure if those publications are on the right or the left. I do find your country fascinating and I would love to travel to Germany to visit your art museums.
Hello demonsandghost Thanks for your words. I hope that our press is neutral and the freedom of the press is still given. The magazines and the news broadcast I have mentioned are respectable and credible. I think they are not left or right.
We have many nice art museums, for example in Berlin, Cologne or Munich and also a nice landscape and people Would be nice if you could visit Germany someday.
I walk wondering why, the same dream so many times
I would avoid vice. It's utter carp really. The Guardian's pretty good, although some of their reviewers have their heads firmly jammed up their backsides. I am a member of Fark which is quite a good place to sift through various news outlets.
Aha! Thanks, steve. I had no idea about Fark, and I thought The Guardian was more like Page Six. I plead ignorance... Save
I would avoid vice. It's utter carp really. The Guardian's pretty good, although some of their reviewers have their heads firmly jammed up their backsides. I am a member of Fark which is quite a good place to sift through various news outlets.
Aha! Thanks, steve . I had no idea about Fark, and I thought The Guardian was more like Page Six. I plead ignorance... Save
Fark's a bit snarky in places. Go near the politics tab at your peril (another good reason we avoid politics here), but that's just the commenters & not the media itself. As an aggregator it's pretty diverse & I have found a few great news outlets as a result. Unfortunately, some of those are now no longer viewable in Europe because the sites involved are too bone idle to get GDPR compliant.
I see it when I look at ways the same story is covered by different publications in class. They are often word for word almost the same.
This.
There is very little actual journalism these days, just services where blurbs are passed on verbatim in social media format to fit on phones and be read in 90 seconds. Because everything media-related is pretty much owned by a few big companies.
I am loving reading The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft & the Golden Age of Journalism right now because it centers so heavily on how painstakingly researched and involved, yet how widely publicly appreciated, the best journalism of the era was. However, it makes me sad for what we, as a general public, accept as "journalism" now. We have nobody to blame but our distractable selves. Save