Sometimes I use an app called Flipboard, but mostly I watch news channels on YouTube. (The big news channels, like ABC and NBC, not “Skeeter’s News Show”.)

Rarely I’ll actually buy a copy of USA Today at the grocery store. I used to get it delivered every day, but they took my house off their route.

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For international stuff I mostly follow the BBC and Al Jazeera. More locally there are a few pretty cool news sources in my area.

I’m paying around $50/month USD for news & analysis, with my Patreon & Substack subscriptions being the biggest chunks of it. Obviously a lot of people can’t afford to do that.

Nathan J. Robinson: The Truth Is Paywalled But The Lies Are Free

I check out Ground News sometimes. It compiles and groups news stories and you can swipe through how the story is presented from different outlets and shows whether they lean left, right, or center. I don’t really agree with the political leanings all the time, but it’s nice to see that caveat and compare how the same story gets framed differently. There are interesting features for paid subscription, but I use the free one and it’s fine enough for me.

What A Day is a short daily podcast that’s easy to put on during your morning shit.

Some More News and their podcast Even More News especially are informative and entertaining. They’re interesting because they’re actually leftist and not CNN leftist, which is really just center-right and less authoritarian than far right outlets.

Somebody else already mentioned First Thought. Their videos are short but it’s because they don’t waste your time. They seem to generally have more of a global focus than other stuff I find on YouTube, so I find it’s most unique and valuable for that aspect.

The consensus I’ve learned is to read, read, read.

Try to be as careful as you can with sources and facts and reliable verified journalists.

Then read a whole bunch more.

Question your sources, question what you’re reading and question yourself.

Then draw your own conclusions from the information you’ve read. You may get it wrong but realize that no one ever fully gets it right.

The only restriction I place is that whatever it is one concludes is that it is kind, does not hate, does not endorse war, does not endorse killing. If something or someone is wanting you to feel hate, anger or fear, then you will know that you are moving away from facts.

As long as you work your hardest to stay informed, you will be more informed than most people.

As long as you’re trying, you’re doing better than the average person.

Reuters, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times

There is also an app called noa which approaches news stories from 3 separate view points. It’s a neat idea. I just haven’t listen to it in a while.

I do this round most days:

Everywhere, basically. I check several aggregators and news feeds, because everything has some sort of bias. I avoid anything with a far-right bias, though, because it full of Nazi propaganda and I refuse to give them the eyeballs. I do watch a few far-right watchers, though (they click so I don’t have to), in order to stay apprised of what they’re saying.

I like international news sources because they seem to be slightly less biased.