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Ask HN: What are your news sources other than HN ?, Hacker News

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                  I try to avoid it. It’s too much of a time sink and there’s almost zero pieces of actionable information.I know it’s offensive to claim it’s merely entertainment but in concrete terms there’s no material difference resulting from tuning into daily banter that’s any different than watching some serial drama on television.************
            
            

                  The intercept is by far the best news outlet. Most of their staff is incredible except a few pseudo journalists like Mehdi who are riding the anti-Trump train.

            

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                  The BBC has a wide range of podcasts (available internationally ), including ones about geopolitics and science.
Due to the nature of the medium and the BBC’s generally more serious and composed disposition these podcasts tend to be about actually relevant information rather than the outrage-inducing, largely irrelevant rubbish commonly fed by “Now … this” media.*****************************************
            
                  I’d advise steering clear of anything related to UK politics published by the BBC.There have been a clear pro-right trend for a number of years evident most clearly during the most recent election and Scotland’s independence referendum of (****************************************************************************************************************************. ******************************
            

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                  In my experience, everybody complains that the BBC is biased , which probably means they’re fairly neutral.
            
            

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                  What was appalling about its coverage? Any sources or evidence? From what I understand they go to great lengths to remain as impartial as possible so curious what it is in particular you are referring to?********

            

being critical of politicians and W1Aabout its own antics can’t be all bad. …*****************            

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                  The BBC received far more complaints on coverage on the recent election from Conservative (right) supporters than any other group: (https://www.theguardian.com/media/) / dec / / bbc -election-c … The right wing in the UK is usually the group most critical of the BBC (AKA “Brussels Broadcasting Corporation”).I would agree that the coverage during the Scottish referendum in 2014 was biased but I think that this is because the BB C is naturally biased towards the status-quo.Any organization that can produce The Thick of It

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                  In the post-trump era, right wing complaints against an organization isn’t necessarily a sign that that organization is doing a good thing. Complaints from the factions in power in the UK at the moment are usually just a sign that their actions ‘arent right enough’ rather than not being right wing full stop.

Also, the BBC News wing has separate management, some of whom were appointed during Cameron’s time in office. So the drama and comedy produced by the BBC can be independent of its news editing.
                                      
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sciencedaily.com

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a little less technical science news – newatalas.comI get access to pressreader.com via my local library a / c

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                  Is it sad to admit to BBC satirical news programs. This generally works – they cover the “biggest” stories of the week, and if it strikes a chord I can go google for more.
However it failed spectacularly a few years back – a political enemy of the UK prime minister David Cameron had written a book claiming Cameron had put his (Cameron’s) penis into the mouth of a dead pig for a university prank. This had been banned from being repeated in UK media but twitter and non-english sources were full. So satirical programs were simply full of jokes about pigs, oink oink noises and more. They got hilarious reactions from those in the know but I simply had no idea why – it was weeks before the explanation broke somehow

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                  >Is it sad to admit to BBC satirical news programs.I for years got all of my main news from HIGNFY, Mock the Week and Private Eye. I got most of the nuance, without the outrage. Shame we don’t have anything in the UK like the Daily Show, otherwise I probably wouldn’t frequent any news sources other than those that skewer it all.

            
            
            
            
            
            

                                                            
                  Love how people downvote RT but upvote BBC. Take any media outlet with a big grain of salt. Al Jazeera is also a good news source, when you are intelligent enough to question motives.******************************

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                  – I skim / read a national newspaper every day in the morning for around – (m – https: // www.TheHindu.com(no this one’s not religious at all – quite the opposite: D).- BBC news (I try to listen to the daily podcast in the evening). I’ve a radio too.- **************** – Sham Jaff’s (https://www.whathappenedlastweek.com/) ************** every week. ******************And then there are friends who never let you miss any event of importance or otherwise.

PS. HN, for me, is other things but not at all a news source.
            
            
            

            
            

                  How on earth can anyone present fox news as a serious news site? It’s the living incarnation of for-profit shock journalism. It doesn’t even pretend to have actual content. (I’d be just as irritated if someone said comedy central … which is probably slightly more accurate, but still utterly idiotic))

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