What is your source

Same here.
Filter bubbles and algorithms are making certain people very wealthy.

Id never heard of these tools until 7-8 years ago.

I am a paid Ground News subscriber.

I'm not going to lie. I don't like everything I see.

Which is the point.

I'd rather BE right than FEEL right.

“Most of the public schools and all of the private schools teach some media literacy. The kids have laptops and this particular state provides additional assistance for special needs like ADHD, Dyslexia etc”

• to clarify, im referring to my own state of Connecticut, more specifically Fairfield County,

So I purchased a year of Ground News and love how they show everything then rank it.

You see the left, right and center sources of news. They list additional news sources about the same subject.

You get to see if a source is rated as consistently reliable. What i like is seeing what more liberal media hasn’t reported.

For legal news re political cases i use footage from congressional hearings vs news

I track what groups are suing re American Rights ( Bill of Rights) on legal podcasts.

Economic information and Policy I go to Robert Reich, Freakonomics, World Bank reports and check with personal sources.

Mostly i read and then ask questions about what I don’t understand.

If I want to know what other countries are talking about then I read international news.

I hate being misled. Spreading misinformation is disgusting and destructive and never trust anyone who gets information from people in chat rooms.

Most of the public schools and all of the private schools teach some media literacy. The kids have laptops and this particular state provides additional assistance for special needs like ADHD, Dyslexia etc

I do not watch MSNBC or CNN and never fully trust information from sources with large corporate advertisers.

My bias is disgust with disinformation. and fake tough guys, and “real Americans” who have never learned basic civics.

New citizens know more about civics than so-called real Americans seem to.

If they knew anything about government functions they would know who sets policy, who makes law, who controls COLLECTED taxes and stop being stupid about why everything is so difficult.

There’s too much information available now and unless a person has specific expertise meaning occupational or extensive industry research* then thinking you know everything, makes you a fucking idiot.

Mickey, the comma key on your keyboard doesn't appear to be working properly. Your list will be confusing to people unfamiliar with your sources.

Jason Q LT with AWK juan O Savin Charlie Ward Simon Parks Christian 21 Patriot Underground Plus many more.

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It’s not a fixation so much as it’s a type of morbid curiosity at just how badly the educational system failed with these individuals.

Like so many other's, I get my news from the SLS especially on covid and science...since i was blovked by so many of them...not getting the news i need...except from those with this mickey and hump fixation

As a matter of policy, I wouldn't trust any news aggregator, no matter how seemingly unbiased it is. But it's a starting point.

I only read the Washington Post in detail every day. But I also look at my local paper, al Jazeera, BBC, Reuters, AP, Fortune, Forbes, NY Times. I also check Google News and skim the headlines for things I might have missed otherwise. In a perfect world, I'd have time to read all of those listed in full, along with the Financial Times, New York magazine and the Atlantic, but I don't.

Ground news- It let me look the other day but now it wants me to pay for a subscription to see anything.

I saw various topics with links to various sources and they indicated whether the sources were left, center or right leaning and to what degree. I recall seeing links to Fox News, Associated Press, The Gateway Pundit and many more both liberal and conservative. I recognized most of the sources but many I had never heard of.

Looks interesting but I didn't buy a subscription.

"I get my news from the links that Mickey posts."

It shows. ;^D

~Scamp

I get my news from the links that Mickey posts.

Has anyone figured out who or what window shopping is or what

It's good - there's a lot there. Like anything it only does some of the work for you. You're still going to need to do most of the contrasting between different sources and perspectives yourself.

Being informed is not for the lazy, obviously, but I was frankly hoping it could have done a little more of the heavy lifting when it comes to sifting out the bullshit so that I'd have a more increased ability to be in the know about more topics. Overall I'm happy with it, but it didn't quite live up to what I imagined given how it was pitched to me.

VaBeach
Your opinion of the information quality is?

"Anyone trying ground news?"

Me.

Will you let me know what you think??

“Anyone trying ground news?”

Not yet but it looks like a great resource, thanks for the suggestion.

~Scamp

I will defer to your obvious expertise in public bathrooms Hump. Im sure you spend many hours in them.
You seem to have a scat kink.

BTW , writing on bathroom walls shows an anal fixation. Your potty trauma is still on full display. : )

I think window shopping is getting her news source off the public bathroom walls

C-span
Democracy Docket
Vox
Legal as Fuck

Anyone trying ground news?

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Recently saw that 1440, gotta look into it more

One "Source" i like is Peter Zeihan "Zeihan On Geopolitics". He gives his analytical OPINION on topical geopolitical happenings around the globe.
I like his style.
I understand that it is OPINION that is based in emerging data points. It's interesting to see how his analysis evolves over time as data points coalesce.

I also get a daily newsletter from NewsGuard's Reality Check, "...a report on how misinformation online is undermining trust — and who’s behind it."

They report on misinformation from all political viewpoints and trace it to the source, if possible. They have uncovered a lot of AI-generated misinformation specifically geared toward influencing the 2024 US elections.

They also tracked stories such as "Donald Trump is constitutionally barred from running for president because he is now a convicted felon" or "a bunch of judges and prosecutors involved in the multiple cases against Trump were arrested and charged with treason" or, in non-Trump news, "that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s psychiatrist died by suicide" or that "country music star Jason Aldean released a song, called “Go Woke Go Broke,” that ridicules Starbucks, Bud Light, and Target over their diversity and inclusion practices".

These stories collectively received millions of shares and likes on social media and circulated on dozens of websites but none of them are true and none of them are funny yet they all started out as satire. But the problem with social media (well, one of the problems), is someone makes a joke or just makes up a lie and it "goes viral" and pretty soon, you have people like Mickey calling it FACT and spreading it as the gospel to friends and family and the other weak-minded sheeple who won't bother to question it.

~Scamp

Here are a couple I check out daily.

1440 "The best, fact-driven information, expertly curated and explained for the intellectually curious." A US news source "by humans, for humans" (no AI) read by over 3.5 million people daily. I view this as the Walter Cronkite or Sgt Friday version of the news. Just the facts, no spin or bias. I subscribe to their daily newsletter which covers 3-5 top stories.

Tangle "...an independent, non-partisan, subscriber-supported newsletter, read by over 100,000 people in 55 countries across the world."
I also get this emailed daily but the difference is that it reports one news story, then quotes politicians and journalists views on the topic from the right and the left, and then provides their take on it. It's a quick way to see how each side spins the same story.

I also scroll through several news feeds throughout the day and if I see a source that I am not familiar with, I plug it into Media Bias Fact Check to see how it is rated. They are a reader-supported, independent fact and bias checker.

Does anyone have any other sources that they recommend? Preferably ones that won't infect my computer with malware. lol

~Scamp