Ask HN: What are your 5 essentials news source, daily?
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I'm shocked that so many people get their news from drudge. That website is god awful to navigate, and is most definitely not a place to get unbiased news... I clicked on eight random links, and two of them took me to pages where there were stories complaining about the "liberal media". What a joke.
Can you name a source of unbiased news?
BBC, NPR, and Christian Science Monitor are all pretty good.
The BBC is anything but unbiased. From the horse's mouth: http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2010/09/lecture-thom...
if you read the article, the quote in the title ("There was massive left-wing bias at the BBC") is referring to 1979.
immediately following that quote: "Now it is a completely different generation. There is much less overt tribalism among the young journalists who work for the BBC. It is like the New Statesman, which used to be various shades of soft and hard left and is now more technocratic. We're like that, too. We have an honourable tradition of journalists from the right [working for us]. It is a broader church."
immediately following that quote: "Now it is a completely different generation. There is much less overt tribalism among the young journalists who work for the BBC. It is like the New Statesman, which used to be various shades of soft and hard left and is now more technocratic. We're like that, too. We have an honourable tradition of journalists from the right [working for us]. It is a broader church."
I don't think you are factoring in the spin to be expected from any CEO, never mind the Director General of the BBC, who has to admit that his charge is less than innocent. The accusation of bias against the BBC is common enough, indeed it is a national joke amongst most people with a smidgen of political nouse.
To deny, via a second- to third-hand source that the BBC is currently a left-wing, propagandist instrument is to belittle everything George Orwell warned us about via 1984.
'... is now more technocratic' !? Does this not send a shiver down your spine? It should do. I suppose if you are a Blairite it could be a cosy affirmation of intention, so there would be no need for alarm.
To deny, via a second- to third-hand source that the BBC is currently a left-wing, propagandist instrument is to belittle everything George Orwell warned us about via 1984.
'... is now more technocratic' !? Does this not send a shiver down your spine? It should do. I suppose if you are a Blairite it could be a cosy affirmation of intention, so there would be no need for alarm.
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drudgereport.com (many times a day)
slashdot.org (though it all seems 3+ days old anymore)
slashdot.org (though it all seems 3+ days old anymore)
I never went to slashdot, it is still relevant?
It's hit or miss. One thing I do like about it is that its commenters include somewhat more non-Valley engineers, people from aerospace companies, petrochemicals, civil engineering, NASA, that kind of thing. Not a large percentage of the commenters, mind you, but there are some good ones now and then. HN probably has a higher percentage of knowledgeable commentators, but they're very skewed towards a certain kind of technology.
It's still worth visiting, in my opinion..
news.google.com - skim the headlines every few hours for anything breaking
fivethirtyeight.com - unbiased, non-sensationalist US election news. I got tired of other sources reporting a week to week swing within the margin of error as if it is Earth shattering.
The Economist - subscription to the weekly magazine. Great in depth reporting of pretty much everything from around the world.
csmonitor.com - Christian Science Monitor - despite the name, it's a great fairly unbiased news source. Just avoid their recent descent into "Are you an American? Take our 100 question quiz!"
npr.org - Good reporting staff, love Morning Edition and All Things Considered in the car.
fivethirtyeight.com - unbiased, non-sensationalist US election news. I got tired of other sources reporting a week to week swing within the margin of error as if it is Earth shattering.
The Economist - subscription to the weekly magazine. Great in depth reporting of pretty much everything from around the world.
csmonitor.com - Christian Science Monitor - despite the name, it's a great fairly unbiased news source. Just avoid their recent descent into "Are you an American? Take our 100 question quiz!"
npr.org - Good reporting staff, love Morning Edition and All Things Considered in the car.
Check different news websites is time consuming. I'm wandering is there any way to quickly browse the news?
BBC, NYT, Drudge, Politico, Techcrunch
REDDIT!!!
whoops , sorry - apart from reddit, Slashdot, techcrunch, engadget, fark, theregister
techmeme.com
readwriteweb.com
thenextweb.com
forbes.com
cnbc.com
cnn.com
theglobeandmail.com
Could try www.newsmap.jp or www.newsola.com for an interesting visulization of Google News
thetechblock.com, daringfireball.net, techmeme.com, thenextweb.com
guardian.co.uk, economist.com, aljazeera.com, arstechnica.com
Drudge, FT, Telegraph, HN, BBC
I'm asking this because sometimes I feel a little bit overwhelmed with all the news source I have, and would like to crop it down to 5.