Comment by mark_l_watson | Hacker News Reader

Comment by mark_l_watson | Hacker News Reader

The advice to use the text only versions for NPR and CNN is solid advice.

I think news is negative and by and large news organizations serve elite interests. In the USA this is mostly to make democrats hate republicans and vice-versa (the slave class, formerly known as the 'middle class', is thus easier to manipulate and control). Since I like to keep my news ingestion to 5 or 6 minutes a day, I use The Guardian's (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news) free morning email of top stories. Really a nice service.

Also compared to corporate/elite lacky news sites like MSNBC, Fox News, CNN, ABC, etc., I find Democracy Now (https://www.democracynow.org/) to be a breath of fresh air.

I contribute to The Guardian and Democracy Now.

> The advice to use the text only versions for NPR and CNN is solid advice.

Is it?

https://text.npr.org/

You can access some 10 stories, not much more. There is no apparent functionality beyond that.

At least for NPR, their text interface is a step in the right direction - but a slap in the face at the same time.

You should consider adding, "The Intercept" to your regular rotation.

https://theintercept.com/

Edit; I also like The Drudge Report and RealClearPolitics because they're kind of just raw feeds of a bunch of articles that may not surface on choosier aggregators.

Wingnut partisan sources will always be a breath of fresh air to you when they're on your side. Right wingers feel the same way about Fox.

I think that Amy Goodman on Democracy Now is about the furthest a person could be from a “wingnut.”

I agree that too many people are overly devoted to either Fox News or MSNBC. Just my opinion but these two “news” services seem to care most about fracturing US civil society. We need more acceptance that in fundamental ways most Democrats and Republicans want the same things: opportunity for their children and themselves, security of our country, etc. It does not make money to run news stories that bring people together.

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