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Ask HN: Where do you get your non-tech news from?

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Is there a good way to aggregate news from sources you like?

I outsourced my news consumption to coworkers, friends and family. After being a news enthusiast this change is more than welcome because I found that 99.9% doesn't offer actionable information and that .1% you find out anyway.

My pet project may be interesting to you: https://www.slowernews.com

It tries to filter the 99,9% and keep the 0,01% that we all fear missing out. Making sense of chaos is a sisyphean task but I see it as a way of using my procrastination positively.

I follow Ezra Klein's NYT column: https://www.nytimes.com/column/ezra-klein

NHK newsline, live news on the hour (in English)

https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/

They also have some interesting programming every now and then.

I discovered it when traveling in Asia, and just kind of kept watching it regularly. It's not necessarily an aggregator but it is global news with more of a focus on Asia.

The local radio news. It takes 3 minutes or so a day and is followed by the weather, which ends up mattering a lot more than most news do for me.

I don't want to aggregate news, because that would just give me ten wrong perspectives on a subject I don't care about and/or upset me for no reason.

Really I just want to know that nothing terrible and relevant has happened, so my ideal news source would just be empty 99.99% of the time.

Allsides.com. I get to see different perspectives from right/center/left on the same or similar topics. I think this is US only news however.

How does Allsides.com handle topics that is only covered by one segment of the political spectrum? To me this is where much of the bias lies.

Check it out and see. Major topics on top are the ones where they show all 3 leaning sides and how they slant it for their viewers.

On the bottom part of the site, you see individual articles that are from the right, center, or left. That’s where topics from one side or the other might be listed and allsides.com sometimes writes why it’s a focus of one side and if the other side is or isn’t writing about it.

I believe it’s a clever way of looking at things personally. At one point of my life, Long story short, the news affected me emotionally a lot. I cut it completely except for weather news. A few years ago I found allsides.com and that fixed that for me. So now once every few days I check the site for basic major news and I don’t get to engulfed in one particular echo chamber. Quite frankly this has kept me much happier and more sane.

Zerohedge. Very good in-depth coverage of financial matters, as well as political ones.

I read news with https://sumi.news - it aggregates everything on page grouped by source. I also have the source customized with RSS feeds, newsletters, and Twitter.

The Current Events page on Wikipedia[0].

I also check the AP.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

Politics: Breaking Points - Krystal Ball (liberal) and Saagar Enjeti (conservative) decided to make a show that cuts through ALL of the partisan crap, and focuses on the important stuff.

Stuff about war, politics, etc... - Beau of the Fifth Column, the man knows his shit, and has seen a lot of stuff around the world, and calls it like he sees it.

General news - Phil Defranco

I don't trust anyone who helped lie us into Iraq, so most of the media is out for me.

I've got lots of others, here's my list of youtube channels I subscribe to - https://www.youtube.com/user/ka9dgx/channels

flipside (https://www.theflipside.io/) is a great daily newsletter that covers one topic per day from a variety of sources across the political spectrum. I've been a happy subscriber for a few years.

I've been reading The Economist for free for years by disabling Javascript.

Epoch Times - https://www.theepochtimes.com

I aggregate various sources at https://datente.com

Twitter.

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