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  • IninewCrow@lemmy.caEnglish
    14·
    1 month ago

    Publically owned or controlled (or at least majority owned and controlled) news services in major countries

    CBC - in Canada (where I’m from)
    PBS - in the US
    NPR - in the US
    ABC - Australia
    BBC - in the UK
    France 24 - in France
    NHK - in Japan
    DW - in Germany

    Although there are criticisms for each, at the very least, they give a good guidance to relevant straight forward news without too much spin.

  • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 month ago

    I’m usually trusting Reuters or AP news

    Though I’ve heard of ground.news and have been thinking about subscribing, DAE have experience with them? Are they as unbiased as they claim?

      • PumaStoleMyBluff@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 month ago

        It helps that their business model doesn’t rely primarily on ads or user tracking, and instead relies on subscriptions from other news businesses. This obviously isn’t perfect as they do serve some ads, and it requires those other businesses to exist and be profitable, but it’s a helpful layer of insulation.

      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.netEnglish
        11·
        1 month ago

        While Reuters is obviously written from a neoliberal perspective, I think as long as you are aware of that, their coverage is fine. It’s very fact based. It’s designed to provide information for investors who are trying to make money from current events, so they have an incentive to do accurate coverage, but of course they will mainly cover things that are relevant to the finance world.

        • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
          5·
          1 month ago

          Agree. The whole idea of “balancing” news coverage by combining together US-left and US-right is pretty boneheaded, but there’s actually a solid concept somewhere in there. I think combining factually strong sources, with a genuine variety of slants and takes on the news, will set you up to understand things pretty well. Reuters / NYT / Wapo is okay (for now), Al Jazeera is okay, The Guardian or some other establishment-left news is okay, and all of them are mostly unlikely to just straight-up lie to you factually, so if you combine them I feel like you’re set up with a decently complete picture of the facts. And then of course there are details and opinions that can come in a lot higher quality from some other more niche sources.

    • realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      14·
      1 month ago

      I like AP News a lil better than Reuters. Axios and NBC News ain’t bad either if you’re okay with using sites that skew a lil farther to the left.

          • LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            17 days ago

            If only your mother would have loved you then you wouldn’t be craving my attention so badly.

            Let me be perfectly clear: I don’t give a fuck what a fascist troll parrots from the brainwormed “thought” leaders that know he’ll gleefully guzzle gallons of garbage for the mere hope of tasting of Elon Musk’s grundle.

            Now piss off.

  • bigboismith@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    1 month ago

    My local government news. Call me a sheep but since they don’t farm clicks they seem to have the most nuanced and engaging stories. For-profit news these days are just doom-posting and rage bait.

  • wowbaggerip@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Roca News @ridethenews is my go to but I’ve tuned most things out at this point to try and stay sane.

  • scoobford@lemmy.zipEnglish
    6·
    1 month ago

    The BBC, AP, and Reuters are a good place to start.

    I like Erin in the Morning, Propublica, and Bellingcat as well, but they require additional work to parse sometimes.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    5·
    1 month ago

    Associated Press is great for world news. They’re a bit slow but you get less mistakes.

    For important news like Linux news, destination Linux, brodie Robinson and the Linux experiment are my goto.