Curious to get the pulse from lemmy on where y’all look to for your various sources of news.

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    • Democracy Now!
    • DW (Germany)
    • France 24
    • PBS / NPR
    • Global News (Canada)
    • propublica
    • AP
    • Al Jazeera
    • BBC World News
    • various youtubers for niche or more world / non western news and geopolitics and trade etc
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    • qprimed
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      democracy now! is legit a core news reporting source for many unreported and underreported stories. thumbs up for DN!

      edit: add link

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        Ya, my personal fav, I try to at least watch the headlines, but usually dig into some of the featured interviews for the day. Amy Goodman is a legend

      • DigitalDilemma
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        110 days ago

        This sounded good and it says it reports global news, but every story on the front page is US centric?

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          It’s definitely intended for US audiences. They do long-running features on topics like the war in Gaza, and they touch on important global events like contested elections, but its perspective is rooted in progressive US politics.

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    The Guardian, The Tyee, BBC, CBC, Reuters and AP, with a dash of utterly unreliable press from abroad.

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    OK, partly off topic: I’m new here and in the fediverse in general. Trying to find out what is what and where I want to be part of.
    So I figure I go to Ask Lemmy, where I see your question and found it interesting.
    To my surprise, since I was under the impression lemmy.ml was a real leftist place I see mostly horrible MSM sources.
    Was I wrong?

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      lemmy.ml federates with almost all instances most of which aren’t leftist, the admins are leftist as is a lot of the local userbase, but the moderation varies between communities and this one tends to be one of the more permissive ones. If you want one that’s more exclusively leftist you’re probably looking for Hexbear or Lemmygrad.

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      311 days ago

      While what you said isn’t untrue, .ml does Bill itself as a general purpose instance. Also, not all the replies are from accounts on .ml.

      In a more general sense, I always felt that only reading sources that alligned with one’s political alignment narrowed one’s perspective.

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        Thanks for the info.

        In a more general sense, I always felt that only reading sources that alligned with one’s political alignment narrowed one’s perspective.

        Definitely, I’m certainly not looking for an echo chamber. It is exactly the opposite since it’s very rare to find something outside the common MSM and social media narrative. Hence the dissapointment with all the news sources mentioned here.

        Also the left ones I know have less ‘pulp’, ‘trivial’ -or whatever you can call it- posts and more interesting subjects not covered elsewhere. I am also constantly surprised and impressed with the knowledge the users have. They know their stuff, put effort into replies, provide sources and useful info on sometimes very specific topics or events in history. It’s vastly more educational.

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    511 days ago

    I listen to pods at work: NPR and DemocracyNow for my daily news, then weekly news/commentary from Labor Stoppage, Citations Needed, Some More News/Even More News, The East is a Podcast, The Deprogram, and ChapoTrapHouse.

  • Sudo Sodium
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    411 days ago

    News in my mother tongue, not beneficial to English speaker people