Where do you get your news from?

[moochedit]

Mostly from the google news app which links to various newspaper sources. Also sometimes from links on facebook and links from u75.

 

[cupid_stunt]

that passed me by

mum-tat does the 'i' these days

i never really got the hang of it, or the full on independent - always struck me as an odd mix of trying to take a high moral tone without having anything it actually stood for

The world has gone mad, the 'i' tended to be independent/a bit left leaning, and is now owned by the Mail group. Whereas the right-wing Daily Express & Daily Star are now owned by Reach PLC. formerly known as Mirror Group Newspapers.

 

[petee]

Twitter mostly. There’s a nack to it but if you follow the right journos it’s better than going directly to the news organisation websites for most things.

same, alot there i won't find elsewhere.
but for the sake of my mental health i'm cutting back.

 

[weltweit]

Twitter mostly. There’s a nack to it but if you follow the right journos it’s better than going directly to the news organisation websites for most things.

Yes, aha, I could definitely get more out of twitter, I am a relative beginner with it though.

 

[weltweit]

The world has gone mad, the 'i' tended to be independent/a bit left leaning, and is now owned by the Mail group. Whereas the right-wing Daily Express & Daily Star are now owned by Reach PLC. formerly known as Mirror Group Newspapers.

I hadn't realised these changes, I am surprised my neighbour is still taking the "I".

 

[cupid_stunt]

I hadn't realised these changes, I am surprised my neighbour is still taking the "I".

TBF, it's supposed to editorially independent from the Mail, for now at least.

Same with the Express & the Star from the Mirror.

 

[campanula]

I avoid it. I honestly try my best. Unfortunately, stuff leaks out. Urban is the main culprit. I generally hope to skate on by, direct to suburban to chat shit about biscuits but horribly, I dither about on my keyboard and before I notice, I am reading some dreadful stuff about Trump, Tory filth and lately, fucking plod. My equilibrium is destroyed and I have to rush off back to My Tractor Forum, Antique Roses or Know Your Cow.

 

[two sheds]

Here, guardian and independent online headlines though don't often read the articles, and for some reason american websites: mainly daily kos, buzzfeed news, daily beast, media matters.

 

[weltweit]

I find I very rarely break a story on Urban, no matter where I come across a story, someone else has already broken it here hours before. Except Covid-19, I think I was the first to start a thread on it, on 20 Jan.

 

[krtek a houby]

Beeb, graun, cnn, PBS, Irish times, here, twitter, ABC, Japan times, etc

 

[stavros]

BBC, Guardian, Le Monde, France24, C4 News and, for less immediate stuff, Private Eye.

 

[wayward bob]

my handcrafted tinfoil head covering tunes into multiple wavelengths

 

[two sheds]

Ah yes Private Eye - only thing i actually read pretty well cover to cover.

 

[Orang Utan]

Never the BBC.
Urban 75
Twitter
The Guardian

tend not to read articles in full mind

Never watch any current affairs or news on telly

 

[MickiQ]

BBC is top source both online and on the TV, occasionally watch Al-Jazeera and CNN, very occasionally Russia Today since they do sometimes cover stories in places like Africa that no-one else does but any stories about the US, Europe or Russia itself I treat as suspect.
Online beside the BBC there is a news accumulation site called FARK that I sometimes check though it's very US centric, the Guardian, the Independent and the New York Times are places I visit quite a lot.
The Daily Fail and the Express must have some deal with Google because despite my best efforts to stop them the fuckers keep appearing on my news feed on my phone and tablet.

 

[krink]

Here, BBC online and Twitter

 

[stavros]

The Daily Fail and the Express must have some deal with Google because despite my best efforts to stop them the fuckers keep appearing on my news feed on my phone and tablet.

It's because your most frequent search is "Is the weather giving house prices cancer?".

 

[two sheds]

I was a bit disappointed with Duckduckgo that the three top stories they recommended for me yesterday were from the Mail, Express and Sun .

That and if you search something like 'verrucas' (just as an example, not that I've had to, you understand) the first couple of responses are 'Verrucas at amazon' and 'Best prices for vurracas on ebay'.

 

[Buddy Bradley]

Breakfast news - start with the BBC, then skip to Sky, RT and Al Jazeera once they start repeating themselves (those are the only news channels we get on Freeview).

Then during the day it's mostly Twitter, Reddit or U75 for breaking news. I find my social media bubble produces enough to keep me outraged and depressed in fairly equal measure throughout an average day.

 

[two sheds]

Breakfast news - start with the BBC, then skip to Sky, RT and Al Jazeera once they start repeating themselves (those are the only news channels we get on Freeview).

Then during the day it's mostly Twitter, Reddit or U75 for breaking news. I find my social media bubble produces enough to keep me outraged and depressed in fairly equal measure throughout an average day.

I did use to look at Reddit but found that I was getting strange browser behaviour that I put down to having clicked on innocent looking links that turned out to be dodgy does that still happen?

 

[MickiQ]

I have to rush off back to My Tractor Forum, Antique Roses or Know Your Cow.

At least you know what you're getting with these

 

[Doodler]

Telly: Channel 4 news, ITV, sometimes Al-Jazeera, Sky etc, fed up with BBC1 news so won't watch it often. Online: New York Times, Guardian, Daily Mail, local newspapers. I don't follow social media, it's shit.

 

[Marty1]

Apple news feed.

YouTube.

 

[Orang Utan]

YouTube.

 

[krtek a houby]

Apple news feed.

YouTube.

You left out Fox News and David Icke

 

[Puddy_Tat]

Ah yes Private Eye - only thing i actually read pretty well cover to cover.

i forgot to mention that - do get it sometimes, and some of what it does is good, but do find it often lapses in to sneering at the working class and so on...

 

[CNT36]

Twitter mostly. There’s a nack to it but if you follow the right journos it’s better than going directly to the news organisation websites for most things.

You'll get the hang of it eventually.

 

[Marty1]

You left out Fox News and David Icke

Nope, both on YouTube, tho you’d be incorrect to classify Icke as ‘news’ imo - more like entertainment

 

[scifisam]

I get the news I need on the weather report.

Other than that, it's here, then following links from here or Facebook, if I'm in the mood for it.

I never, ever watch TV news. Even before corona, it was just too fucking depressing. "Here's a shit thing you can do nothing about, and another, and another, and here's a monkey who's best friends with a chihuahua."

Haven't bought a newspaper for maybe 20 years. When the Metro was free on the tube I would sometimes read that while commuting, then one day realised that was a shitty way to start the day. Not doing that made such a difference. It wasn't just that I was reading something else instead - often I didn't have anything, but that was still far better than starting the day with the Metro. The Metro is terrible but I think any newspaper would have been bad.

 

[CNT36]

Here. Radio 4 if I'm driving/working/housework. LBC if the missus is in charge. Al Jazeera on youtube if I have a few minutes or sometimes if I'm on the erg and don't have the time or the concentration for something longer. I use Feedly. Follow quite a lot of feeds organised by type/location/subject etc. Bit of BBC or channel 4 news now and then. Newsnight if the father in law is around. Given up a little on trying to catch a small snippet of a million stories everyday and tend to read a few decent articles in a burst to catch up every now and then.