What Media Sources Do like/Find Helpful?

[james.hendrickson]

Guys

Wanted to post a quick question here - what other websites do you guys like? Or what news sites/media do you like?

For me, I like the Wall Street Journal, Drudge Report, and I prefer to follow PF influencers on twitter/youtube.

[ua_guy]

My go-to was Reuters for headlines that I use for general awareness, and jumping-off point for further reading and perspective. I've since switched to APnews since Reuters now has a paywall.

We have NYT, WSJ subscriptions and also subscribe to a local paper.

NPR for listening, generally.

Not really a "viewer" but will channel-surf the majors. Always interesting to see what one channel versus another is carrying during an event (or not) as it unfolds, and listening to how differently they spin it. Any news, really, not just political.

I do read fringe stuff and I maintain they are the worst of the worst.

Don't have a twitter. Watch Youtube only for car stuff.

[bjl584]

I have a ton of apps for news.
I like to have info coming in from all sides to hear all the different perspectives.
It's way to easy to fall into the trap of listening to (insert your political beliefs here) news sources.
It will start to shape your perceived reality of the world if you are too immersed in one way of thinking.

[myrdale]

Typically I glance through The Drudge Report and NBCnews.com daily.

I go to NewScientist.com once or twice a month.

Occasionally I'll look at CNN and Fox.

You have to put your blinders on though to avoid the politics on all of the sites mentioned above.

I will give NBCnews.com credit. They post a lot of what I would consider to be garbage, but they have been tagging it Opinion for the last couple of years.

There are probably a half dozen finance related channels on YouTube that I have followed, but eventually they get repetitive / stale.

[Like2Plan]

Written: My favorite is the WSJ (although I let the subscription go). Next is NPR. I do tune into PBS Newshour, BBC news, NHK news, C-Span, CNN and Fox occasionally. (But sometimes I have to turn them off and flip to another channel.)

[rennigade]

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[kork13]

I have a ton of apps for news.
I like to have info coming in from all sides to hear all the different perspectives.
It's way to easy to fall into the trap of listening to (insert your political beliefs here) news sources.
It will start to shape your perceived reality of the world if you are too immersed in one way of thinking.

This is exactly my view & practice as well.

I've always liked WSJ, but most of their articles are behind pay walls & I've never forked out for a subscription. I do have a free (to military) digital subscription to the Washington Post that I use on the regular. I also use AP News & Reuters extensively. I mostly avoid the major TV networks, because they are more concerned with sensationalism & entertainment under the guise of news rather than actual, valid journalism.

I recently started using First Alert (aka DataMinr), which the military provides to us via contract. It's fantastic, and as the name implies, pulls prioritized news alerts from around the globe, customizable by region, country, content, criticality, etc. It's intended focus (for our use) is national security issues, which it handles very well. But I have it setup to provide all kinds of stuff, and I get as much as a dozen alerts or more every hour. They're just little 1-2 line snippets, linked to fill articles sourced from all of the major & minor news outlets, Twitter, Facebook, official statements from governments or companies, etc. And most of all, it's timely. When I was deployed, I could be sitting on our operations floor, watch something happen, then mere minutes later a DataMinr alert pops up for a reported explosion/air strike wherever, reported via Twitter by some reporter or local source. I've been highly impressed.