I usually don't even try to stay informed and I don't know what online newspaper to open.
I'm looking for a curated list of important information where the agenda isn't too frigging obvious and without too many ads and clickbaits. Oh and one that isn't /pol/
So far, I've found
https://www.reuters.com/ and https://news.yahoo.com/ The latter I hadn't seen since the late nineties and it still looks far superior to most of the newspapers.
Any good suggestions?
I use https://raddle.me and https://dev.lemmy.ml .
It's all clickbait and bullshit anon. If you just want to know if something big happened, then reuters is as good as any, but go text only. Seriously. Read it in lynx or something.
>>2
Thanks, the formatting is perfect but the first site is far from ``neutral'', they are militants. Besides I'm really not sure that community-curated content is better than editorially curated content.
>>3
That's the plan. I may even scrape the main headlines and display them once, at login.
There is nothing more neutral than the truth.
>>5
As far as I understood, the people from raddle.me people have split from Reddit because they wanted to be able to talk freely about beating the shit out of fascists. And of course, they also get to choose who is a fascist and who isn't. They're not simply vigilantes who want to bring people to justice (which is already borderline) they want to serve justice themselves. So they form groups and beat people who disagree with them. Nope, count me out.
To me they're even worse than people who would self identify as fascists, because they're not simply fascist, not they're fascist AND hypocritical.
Be a good person, lead by example. Don't tell me that I have to hate this or that because you say so.
Nice try, liberal.
>>4
Scraping headlines is a good idea. I went on a news diet last summer, and within a few weeks I stopped going to news sites altogether. It wasn't even hard. I slipped a little with the covid stuff, but I'm still mostly out of the loop. It gets a bit surreal after a while, like the people around you are from another country. The election (here in Canada) was particularly strange. All these signs sprouted up out of nowhere, and weird, smiling people started knocking on my door.
It's not what you asked for, but you could get some of your news from Review of Books type sites.
Or something zen, like that:
https://onezero.medium.com/the-morning-paper-revisited-35b407822494
Just don't read news. If there is something worth knowing about, you will hear it from other people. Try to focus on that's really important.
>>11
This presupposes a whole lot. And what exactly is really important?
>>13
nothing
>>17
Perfect. Thanks!
>>18
Those interfaces are nice compared to that of their main sites, but the OP did say
where the agenda isn't too frigging obvious
There used to be a good gopher service on gopher://txtn.ws that compiles headlines from a dozen different sources but the owner let the domain expire.
>>20
Sad.
Have you tried \link skimmedit\target https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/skimmed ?
>>7 Nice try, illiterate.
>>22
Nice "sources"
I forgot about Wikipedia, I vould get the headlines from there:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events
I second Wikipedia.
>>27
Nice idea, I forgot about that
Wikipedia is biased, it's nothing but Western imperialist propaganda.
>>29
How can you bias a B-tree balancing algorithm?
Even if you found some site without bias (or perhaps the opposite, rhetoric easily detected because you're not the target) it'd still be covering mostly irrelevant shit. I spent a few days earlier this year looking for a paper which covered finance and geopolitics and didn't target me. The closest I could find were https://rt.com and https://scmp.com/economy/global-economy both of which are far from ideal in several respects (although the main issue with scmp is the interface, probably fixable). If you actually want something close to honesty you're probably better off looking for blogs and podcasts.
>>31
You're talking about OSINT.
>>32
Sounds good so long as someone else is doing the filtering; I'd hate to be the one spending all day reading piles of gibberish.
It is like that, hm?
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That's why I ceased to read all news except some refering to scientific articles.
>>33
That's why I ceased to read all news except some refering to scientific articles.
do you not miss out?
>>36
This is my typical approach as well. I only recently started reading again because I've been tired and not had many hobbies I could do in such a state.
>>37
In my experience it's more of superpower to be oblivious. Being sucked in by the news tends to make it hard to view events objectively. It's also much easier to derive your own perspective because there are so many more options available than are displayed in the media. Further the things that actually matter either won't be in the media anyway, or you'll pick up from day-to-day conversation with the local barista or whatever.
Morning Brew
https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/issues/latest
News you can read in ten minutes
i am addicted to the news.
That's cool, I am addicted to cock.
your own :p
>>41 same thing
USAian bias but that's not a problem for me
https://www.morningbrew.com/daily/issues/latest
https://text.npr.org/
https://lite.cnn.com/en
https://noslite.nl/
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news?sort=editors-picks
https://legiblenews.com/
http://68k.news/
https://news.t0.vc/