Ask HN: What platform do you use for current events and news?

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I enjoy staying update to date, not only on general current events (us politics, world news, ect), but also more specialized topics like Linux, and programming. In the past I have tried things like RSS feeds or even just plain old CNN, both have their obvious flaws. How do you picks up your news HN?

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I signed up for a NYTimes digital subscription. They made me an offer for 6 USD per month, for 2 years, opt-out at any time... so I bit the bullet. I try to improve my English, so I try to read non-tech related curated content as much as possible.

The amount of articles is astonishing and I have to say that the quality is top-notch.

In order of where most to least information comes from:

-regular websites (as in I don't use rss) -talk radio about 50% of the time I'm driving (music the rest of the time) -gmane with pan -occasional tv in public places (better for local stuff) -books (< 5% of my book choices are current events related)

A combination of NPR, local TV news, national TV news, RSS feeds (tech, NPR, general news, etc.), and general "browsing" of sites like reddit/hackernews/etc.

NPR is great. I love their programming. Such a variety of different programs.

Basically twitter, I mainly follow a few news outlets that I consider reasonably accurate and that don't spam there feeds with irrelevant stuff.

BBC/NYT/Radio in different languages (Spanish/French). I prefer internet radio stations since I'm usually on my computer

Evening News: ABC and NBC/CBS, local NBC/CBS TV station RSS Feeds: Bloomberg, Techcrunch Reddit: /r/news, /r/worldnews

I spend half an hour daily going through my ~100 tech-related RSS feeds in Thunderbird. Works well for me. What's the obvious flaw with RSS?

I am writing my own web app for this.

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