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posted by Fnord666 on Friday December 28 2018, @05:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the who-do-you-trust? dept.

For on-line news, what sites do you avoid and which ones do you seek out as being trustworthy?

Thanks to my position as an editor on SoylentNews, I've had the privilege of viewing story submissions which have referenced a veritable plethora of different sources. It has been a privilege to serve you these past few years. My goal has been to provide stories that cover a diversity of areas but always with an attempt to provide level-headed background. I strive to avoid shrill in-your-face!!!!elevnty! diatribes. To invoke a common mis-quotation "Just the facts, ma'am." Full confession: I'm not above posting an occasional funny or feel-good story, either.

Over time, I've come to learn that some sources are more reputable than others. News outlets are comprised of people who have their own biases; some try to remain objective whereas others use their position to push an agenda.

For example, I've learned here that RT is a mouthpiece for the Russian government (A modern-day Pravda, if you will).

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), on the other hand, is funded primarily through a television license costing £147 per year per household. But, it has received a funding boost from government to expand its global reach.

Fox News has had complaints about its content and has had its share of controversies. But even some commonly-held beliefs about Fox News have proved exaggerated and not fully supported by the facts.

ScienceDaily, phys.org, CNET, Quora, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), ESA (European Space Agency), Spaceflight Now, weather.gov, and Hurricane Prediction Center are just some of the sites that I have found especially helpful.

So, I turn to the SoylentNews community:

  • What biases have you found with MSM (main-stream media)?
  • what 'news' sites do YOU avoid? Why?
  • where do YOU find trustworthy, unbiased, fact-supported news?

Bonus question: What would you think of a news story on SoylentNews whose only supporting link is CNN? Fox News? Breitbart?


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  • (Score: 2) by legont on Friday December 28 2018, @07:07PM (3 children)

    by legont (4179) on Friday December 28 2018, @07:07PM (#779428)

    Nice summary, thanks!

    Perhaps you or somebody could suggest a news aggregator phone app similar to what google news once was? I am not looking for a good summary, but rather for a summary that most people read. The new google news app is dangerous because it started to use flashing and moving appearance which is designed to pass through mental defenses. I need static text representation that looks as dull as possible. A friend of mine wrote an app filtering google's feed, but they recently castrated the api so it stopped working.

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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Friday December 28 2018, @07:35PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 28 2018, @07:35PM (#779436) Journal

    I'm unable to recommend any phone app. On my desktop, I use Liferea https://lzone.de/liferea/ [lzone.de] It relies on GTK3, so if your phone has GTK3 installed, it may work. Trying to find a more definitive answer . . . sorry, nothing obvious. I don't think it's supported on any phones.

  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @11:33PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @11:33PM (#779513)

    don't use the apps. not too hard.