Where do you get your news?

[big_hairy_rob]

I'm getting mighty fed up of BBC news. Log on for headlines, information that matters to the world and find myself struggling to find anything remotely newsworthy easily accessible. It's rapidly turned into opinion and feel-good pieces that is little more than fluff to quell the frantic hordes; while heavily advertising/promoting elements that they are financially vested in. Famines, floods, earthquakes, volanoes and a-political wars (from a UK Perspective) fall foul to eurovision and royal wedding.

So, Hexites, where do you go to find your news?

[Millennium]

Well, strangely the BBC news app is on my homepage. Also Bloomberg, France 24, the Japanese news channel on Sky is pretty good. I do occasionally read headlines of semi-decent papers and I watch BBC Parliament a fair bit sometimes. It's very interesting and I wish it was broadcast internationally.

Last night on a whim I went to a local Socialist Workers Party meeting and their publication was VERY good with news. I don't know if proper socialism is our answer and suspect it may be at some indeterminate point in the future assuming the past didn't exist at that point (something like that). But their paper is one of the best I've read.

You can't really take anything from one source these days. Look at how the whole ongoing massacre of Palestinians is reported who have been displaced through warmongering and shady politics. And we're giving weapons to their oppressors. Did you read that in the Sun today?

[kalniel]

It's quite unlikely you'll find a large outlet that happens to put just the news out that you want by default, so have you tried customising your BBC news? I did that a while back and it's made a world of difference. Most desktop sites and news apps allow you to tailor your areas of interest these days.

[hb904460]

routinely; BBC, Daily Telegraph, gazeta.pl, yahoo, techpowerup, Hexus, Guardian, Independent

A range of sources that i know all have their own agendas to a certain extent, but by removing the opinion and speculation, some factual information can actually be gleaned.

[wazzickle]

i newspaper, bbc radio, and twitter.

routinely; BBC, gazeta.pl, yahoo, techpowerup, Hexus, Guardian, Independent

A range of sources that i know all have their own agendas to a certain extent, but by removing the opinion and speculation, some factual information can actually be gleaned.

Fixed that for ya

[Galant]

Fragmented. Twitter has become useful in getting a 'blast' of news from different sources so that I can sift through it, and from more sources than I might normally be aware of.

Can't really rely on one source, or even a few. Not necessarily because of a deceptive agenda but perhaps lack of range in whatever they cover. That is to say, there are a few blogs/websites I like and feel I can trust, but those tend to be very narrow in their interest.

[Zak33]

I'm getting mighty fed up of BBC news. Log on for headlines, information that matters to the world and find myself struggling to find anything remotely newsworthy easily accessible. It's rapidly turned into opinion and feel-good pieces that is little more than fluff to quell the frantic hordes; while heavily advertising/promoting elements that they are financially vested in. Famines, floods, earthquakes, volanoes and a-political wars (from a UK Perspective) fall foul to eurovision and royal wedding.

So, Hexites, where do you go to find your news?

utterly agree, I dumped the BBC news app a while ago cos it was like reading Facebook

Reuters for most stuff now.

[Ttaskmaster]

Threads on here, mostly. Occasionally car radio or friends who read the news, but I try not to care too much about what's happening as it's so depressing and I have enough to be concerned with in my own life.
I remain remarkably informed on some matters, while completely oblivious of others.

[directhex]

Ironic Twitter memes about the day before's memes about the big news story.

[Adrian_K]

Ironic Twitter memes about the day before's memes about the big news story.

Same here. Although i will open up the BBC news homepage every morning and sometime at night just to see whats going on. Otherwise its mostly twitter or from the parents ;p

[Spreadie]

I get all my news exclusively from the Daily Express and the Daily Mail.

Mal-adjusted paranoid muppet, moi?

[mozzer51]

Reuters?

[johnroe]

The BBC is The Ministry of Truth.

The problem is that by the time you've seen all the biases and edits; for whatever political, editorial, religious, personal subjectivity of author reasons, there is often very little story.
Just endless propaganda. I usually like reading the same non story in different papers to see the spin angles. Governments and political parties spend a lot of tax payers money to deceive the public(£25 m on spin doctors PY alone at one point).

Discovering Seymour M. Hersh was a revelation, his background knowledge, his contacts in government, his detective work in trying to find some sort of truth. He's the guy who called out the American military over the My Lai massacre in Vietnam. He also wrote about the death of Osama. He won the Pulitzer Prize. So now I'm tracking down prize winning journalists and trying to follow stories by looking at one story intently(down the rabbit hole!).

[adidan]

Last time I remember news was just before the advent of 24 hour attention seeking clickbait gossip channels.

[johnroe]

Yes I've added Reuters to my list, they have a good reputation. I think it's very hard to find out exactly what governments, or more likely their intelligence agencies, are doing until it's reviewed decades later with hindsight. So whistle blowers and hackers are also a way of finding out some sort of truth. Here's a group of people who have been honoured by Sam Adams award(taking a stance for integrity and ethics)

2002: Coleen Rowley[5][6]
2003: Katharine Gun, former British intelligence (GCHQ) translator; leaked top-secret information showing illegal US activities during the push for war in Iraq[7]
2004: Sibel Edmonds, former FBI translator; fired after accusing FBI officials of ignoring intelligence pointing to al-Qaeda attacks against the US[8]
2005: Craig Murray,[5] former British Ambassador to Uzbekistan who blew the whistle on UK complicity in the Uzbek government's use of torture and involvement in extraordinary rendition
2006: Samuel Provance, former US Army military intelligence sergeant; spoke out about abuses at the Abu Ghraib Prison[9]
2007: Andrew Wilkie, retired Australian intelligence official; claimed intelligence was being exaggerated to justify Australian support for the US invasion of Iraq[8]
2008: Frank Grevil, Danish whistleblower; leaked classified information showing no clear evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq[10]
2009: Larry Wilkerson, former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell and Iraq War critic.[5]
2010: Julian Assange, editor-in-chief and founder of WikiLeaks[11][12]
2011: Thomas Andrews Drake, former senior executive of the US NSA; Jesselyn Radack, former ethics adviser to the US Department of Justice[13]
2012: Thomas Fingar, former chairman of the National Intelligence Council[2]
2013: Edward Snowden, leaked NSA material showing mass surveillance by the agency, sparking heated debate[14][15][16]
2014: Chelsea Manning,[17][18] a United States Army soldier who was convicted in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage Act and other offenses
2015: William Binney, a former highly placed intelligence official with the United States National Security Agency turned whistleblower
2016: John Kiriakou, former CIA analyst and case officer who publicly confirmed the employment of waterboarding against detainees, and characterized the practice as torture
2017: Seymour Hersh, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist who reported on the My Lai massacre, the Abu Ghraib scandal, and alleged misrepresentations of the 2013 Ghouta attack and the 2017 Khan Shaykhun attack.

I think the future of government is based around the internet. Instead of handing over power to some career ideologist, everyone gets to vote online on major issues. But first we need more transparency and access to information.

[AKP]

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