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I get very frustrated, sad and emotional when I read CNN or any of the major news sites. So I avoid it.

Instead I use Wikipedia once a month : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events/Septembe...

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That's intentional, especially with CNN. The major news sites have essentially been tabloids since the death of print.

Sites from local TV news groups seem to be the most dispassionate reporting these days.

PBS News Hour. I've never watched more boring and informative news in my entire life.

Cspan in a nutshell

Even C-SPAN has its hacks: https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-joe-biden-donald-t...

Excellent wordplay

Reuters TV[0] is pretty good for this too, you can even set how much time you want to watch it and it will pair down the information. Extremely boring for the most part.

0: https://www.reuters.tv/

NewsHour is great. Litigation of the petty partisan crap is restricted to a 10-15 minute segment on Friday evening.

CNN is nothing but editorials.

> Sites from local TV news groups seem to be the most dispassionate reporting these days.

Really? Our local TV news websites are:

1) absolutely terrible user experiences -- like, so many ads that the scrolling lags on my 16 inch MBP.

2) clearly just reposting whatever their parent networks feed them for everything except local news (so, Fox and NBC, the two mentioned in this article, are literally feeding lines to these "local" channels that are ostensibly totally different from their parent networks)

IMO: the death of local newspapers is a problem but the death of local TV news can't happen fast enough.

The OP link is to September, but if you go to the main/parent link, it’s always the current month, which conveniently has today’s news at the top (reverse chronological):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

This is incredible. I wish I knew about this years ago. I have long been looking for impartial news sources. I used to listen to CBC, NPR, and ABC (Australia) to try and get more angles to a story, but that got tiring.

I use the BBC World News site as my homepage.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world

Once you become consciously aware of their emotional manipulation techniques you can watch without being impacted. Still a waste of time, though.

I read only Reuters and APNews these days. They report things but not in a way to make you emotional. They make news outright boring which is a good thing.

I don’t know what happened to CNN. Seems they have decided to become the left wing FoxNews.

That's a very good resource, I find that even if one truly believes that the news or political media is not warping your vision of reality and your beliefs that is not the case. Once you step back and view the situation from the outside, then you really start to understand how people's nervous systems are being regulated and influenced by the media.

https://weekly.hatnote.com/ might be of interest, weekly update with the most active wikipedia entries. Tends to be news events.

Thanks for sharing this link. It helps catching up with news once a month or so.

Thank you for this!

Great suggestion! I’m going to try this as well.

Wikipedia is a great filter.

This, this is awesome

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