What are your top 3 sources for news?

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Reuters and AP for bare bones facts. Foreign news for analysis on anything. Meaning that BBC and Al Jazeera will have decent analysis articles on the Western hemisphere. Al Jazeera is useless for news about the Middle East though. New York Times for analysis on Europe or the Middle East, but not the USA. And I never believe a big headline until another major source confirms it.

That’s how I get the bigger stories. For local news, I go to multiple independent local outfits. All of them have a slant, but it’s easy to weed out and block the fringe ones quickly. They can’t stay objective about anything. What’s left is a small collection of curated local streams.

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sane-asylum@reddit

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Fudloe@reddit

Atta boy!

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sane-asylum@reddit

I used to read the news all day (Yahoo.com) and then the major news channels on YouTube but I decided it wasn’t good for me mentally, it’s just exhausting. With just Reddit I can chose how much I consume. (I’m only on Reddit at work).

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oddball_ocelot@reddit

Mostly I just get my news from Tim down at the bar.

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Fudloe@reddit

Precisely. Tim never feeds me bullshit. But he bums a lot of smokes.

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BorisTheHangman@reddit

I know Tim. Good guy. Straight shooter.

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sageguitar70@reddit

Bloomberg, Drudgereport, Local nightly news.

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Fudloe@reddit

I look outside. World on fire? Bad news. Birds chirping, sun shining? Good news.

If I wanted to start my day with something scary, I'd look in the mirror before my coffee.

Fuck the "news".

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wezelboy@reddit

Mostly NYTimes, but also some blogs.

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tower28@reddit

NPR, NYT, the economist. And I sometimes read the news aggregator Next Draft.

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thermbug@reddit

Ground news
AP
Npr

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Jagmod770@reddit

Ground news is slop Look at Reuters and al jazeera

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driftless@reddit

Yep. Reuters, AP, NPR and BBC

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rayinsd@reddit

I try to avoid thew news, but I do recommend listening to the unbiased politics podcast. Jordan Berman is super balanced and just tells facts with o spin. Also will take in some local news.

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that-thingy66@reddit

Huey Lewis

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Dry_Ad687@reddit

AP

Drudge

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daveescaped@reddit

The Wall Street Journal, NPR and news aggregators like Google News.

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EyelanderSam@reddit

AP

BBC

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Nick_chops@reddit

DW news (Deutsche Welle) - as independent as you are likely to get these days.

BBC, Reuters.

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Apart_Culture_3564@reddit

Guardian, propublica and various substacks

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Fran0349@reddit

CBC, Globe and Mail, The Atlantic

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Read_The_Fing_Manual@reddit

TV & Social media sucks wombat butt. I read the Atlantic, WSJ, and skim NYT. Then I dig into areas I am interested. (Financial Times, Economist, Foreign Policy and various industry specific sources).

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ike_tyson@reddit

NPR and various alt online outlets.

You can't trust legacy Media anymore.

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OldHead1776@reddit

I'm honestly happiest when I go on vacation and don't see any news for weeks. The most I might look up is the weather.

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penguinjuice@reddit

PBS, BBC, Local City Paper

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cosnierozumiem@reddit

AP, BBC, CBC

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DrJohnCLilley@reddit

All I could think of reading this is: Boyz II Men, ABC, BBD

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jcostello50@reddit

Local newspaper, Foreign Affairs, and hearing about the latest outrage from my wife or brother

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Gen7Malibu@reddit

I still go the traditional route - local TV and radio for the most sort. Obviously internet also but there is something about local - whatever that is anymore- that seems comfortable to me.

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ParticularBed6338@reddit

The Daily Show is a good way to get real news with some comedy, It’s our evening news. Channel 3 has a TV app for the local news which we watch every morning.

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PrimordialAHole@reddit

Drop Site News

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ONROSREPUS@reddit

95% don't watch or pay attention to the news.

I get the news paper from the tiny local small town I live close to. I like to read the local news of what is going on in the community.

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LuceLeakey@reddit

I listen to the news on NPR every day. Aside from that, I click on interesting articles I see on my Google News feed, local TV station websites, or things I see mentioned on social media.

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Walk_of_Shayne@reddit

Npr, Breaking Points, bbc

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t53deletion@reddit

Al Jazeera. BBC.

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Visible-Plenty-1202@reddit

Zeteo / Mehdi Hassan

Ground news

The Guardian

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Sunshine0085@reddit

I don't do the news!!! I found an increase in my mental health 🙌 🙂

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Admirable_Trouble574@reddit

THIS.

Its all ragebait now.

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Typical_me_1111@reddit

X, Facebook and Google news

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Crafty-Bass-3434@reddit

That's scary.

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Typical_me_1111@reddit

Why?

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Sado_Hedonist@reddit

Two out of the three are full of bots run by foreign agitators and blatant AI shit posting.

The comments are also full of bots posting the same phrases, and the content that they want you to see is heavily upvoted by even more bots.

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space_wiener@reddit

Reddit. Reddit. Facebook.

Sometimes truth social for a laugh but I’m having a hard time reading the constant whining.

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broen13@reddit

Ground News, Youtube nonsense. Would like a few others so likely I'll check back on this thread in a bit.

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fifthstreetsaint@reddit

Seems like under the current paradigm everyone is lying to us for money.

It's almost as if journalism is essential to Democracy, and should be institutionalized as some sort of "4th Estate" instead of operating as a for profit business.

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Signal_Glittering@reddit

Pure habit has my TV on to local news at 6pm, National at 6:30. I don’t miss it when I’m busy doing something else but this is my old personal habit. I’d read the newspaper if they still existed. I do miss a good newspaper

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hyst0rica1_29@reddit

I used to listen to NPR until I started to notice they’d regularly have some Far Right goon on Morning Edition, from time to time, & let him run wild with his schtick while (very) weakly trying to rein him in. After a while it was like waking up to a local Faaaaaaar Right AM radio station. Once their Saturday programming got completely revamped I quit them.

As for “news”, I’ll just keep an eye out to see what everyone’s buzzing about online, then go Google what’s going on. I’ve largely quit “news”/ragebait outlets of any kind. Lol sheeeeeeet I even quit the local CBS affiliate’s weather segment after the last time I tuned in to see if we’d be getting rain tomorrow & *the weatherguy*(!?) is busy pointing at the Gulf of Mexico & going “There’s the Gulf of America! YEAH!!” 😐🙄

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Wacko_Banana_Pants@reddit

Mexico is part of the Americas.

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onemorebutfaster_74@reddit

Breaking Points (podcast or YouTube), NY Times, The Atlantic, Bloomberg. If shit's going down, BBC, Al Jazeera, CNN. NPR used to be great but it lost me somewhere along the way.

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BigRefrigerator9783@reddit

BBC, WaPo, NPR

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heynow941@reddit

Wall Street Journal (establishment right)
New York Times (establishment left)
Many small blogs, some local to my state covering news never mentioned in WSJ or NYT. I read these blogs via their RSS feeds.
I peak at Twitter and Bluesky but find both to be echo chambers and try to limit my time there.

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Brother_Professor@reddit

American here... AP, mostly. Occasionally the Guardian or BBC.

American, for-profit, news outlets are a steady stream of them telling us why we should be angry and afraid of the other side, whomever they decide the "other side" is.

Their programming model is 5 minutes of selected "headlines" followed by hour after hour of talking heads triggering our amygdalas, just to keep us tuned in.

The nightly news used to be a public service, brief blurbs of information to keep us informed about the world around us. It was local news at 6pm, world news at 6:30, and more local news at 11pm. If you really wanted more in-depth information, you could watch PBS where you could see members of opposing views civilly, politely dicuss their points in the same room (no Brady Bunch style talking heads) and, in real time, evaluate the pros and cons of each argument based on the facts presented.

Now its just Google-made "experts" shouting reactionary soundbites to validate themselves to their followers. Its not news, its theater. All in an effort to create shareholder value, not to inform.

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calpianwishes@reddit

Most news can be traced to AP/Reuters. There is no such thing as real investigative journalism since most local news outlets were bought or closed. No one has the budget for investigative journalism.

Investigative journalism is some person taking a YouTube or TikTok video and then saying they investigated. Same with these podcasters.

BBC, CNN, Fox, Al Jazeera, NYT are all biased and they are all for profit.

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Emotional-Yam4486@reddit

NPR (On The Media especially), The News Hour on PBS, the Financial Times for business news.

There are a ton of others including the BBC, NYT, the Economist, The Atlantic and countless podcasts(seriously, listen to On The Media).

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smchenry75@reddit

r/conspiracy

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NoFollowing7781@reddit

Nothing... 98% of so-called "News" is just sensationalized bullshit that doesn't actually matter... I don't pay attention to the news, because it's never anything new...

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Lacey_Dawson1012@reddit

I don't pay any attention to the news. I figure if something big happens people will talk about it. Then I'll do some research into what I'm hearing to get the details , then I move on.

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Spridlewv@reddit

I keep my distance for the most part. If I do check anything its NYT, Guardian or propublica.

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niff007@reddit

All US legacy media is now owned by oligarchs and feeding the nation propaganda. I follow some independents like Aaron Parnass and I read Threads for the latest since most of them are on there (gotta get your algorithm right though) and I check BBC.

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HisTreeNut@reddit

I stay away from all the mainstream. Typically listen to independent journalists from the proverbial right, center, and left. Listen to some foreign news podcasts as it tends to be more unbiased than mainstream media in the United States.

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mobilene@reddit

Ground News, Reuters, and the local public radio station's app.

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-ACatWithAKeyboard-@reddit

Breadtubers, one of my local news stations and Al Jazeera.

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Bartend23@reddit

Relying on 3 would be bad. I try to read and listen a lot of different sources from things like NPR, MSNBC, Drudge Report, NY Times, The Economist, Wall Street Journal,
Seattle Times, CNBC,
The BBC, and follow individual writers from other countries to follow world events. It’s all has its bias.

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WhoMe28332@reddit

Back in the day Drudge was actually a pretty good site. It aggregated things well. Now it’s pretty much wall to wall British tabloid nonsense.

Solid choices among the others though.

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krneki534@reddit

I never watched news, I found them an utter waste of time.

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OtterLLC@reddit

AP/Reuters, NYT (but auditioning alternatives), BBC

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WhoMe28332@reddit

NYT, WSJ, The Economist

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paintedflags@reddit

Andrew Callaghan. Aaron Parnas. The Guardian.

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melty75@reddit

Up first from NPR

CBC News

Local news

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mmpjd@reddit

Don’t care, f@ck off and stfu are my three sources haha

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JuJu_Wirehead@reddit

I try to avoid anything American at this point.

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TexasRN1@reddit

Independent reporters. I get daily substacks from Heather cox Richardson and Aaron Parnas. Then bbc, npr and ap news.

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JonathanTrager@reddit

BBC. It seems to be pretty unbiased compared to the slanted reporting of CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the other main media outlets.

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southernslick@reddit

Al Jazerra, BBC, a few Youtube Channels. Then a few websites.
I barely watch msm news outlets as much as I use to.

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ancientastronaut2@reddit

BBC, NPR, Al Jazeera, ABC for our local stuff

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KalelRChase@reddit

AP, BBC, Snopes

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ww_adh77@reddit

New York Times, local paper's website, the Apple News app

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RaisinFresh7318@reddit

This!

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MaximumJones@reddit

I get all my news from Allen who works at the barber shop.

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amazing-haves-34@reddit

Not the barber? Just the assistant?

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Ms_Anne-Thrope@reddit

Ground News, BBC, Al Jazeera

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EmbarrassedAge7612@reddit

Normally I read whatever is on the morning newsfeed and then research if it actually happened. 90% of the time it’s out of context and not even close to accurate.

There’s a couple local news outlets where we live that do a pretty decent job of just reporting the facts. I use them to stay caught up with what’s happening in the state and our community.

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TheBugHouse@reddit

CBC, BBC, NRP ...

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obligatory-purgatory@reddit

If my husband says some crazy shit happened I look at NPR or BBC. Otherwise it’s BS

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mudshark698@reddit

New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and The Guardian.

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WilliePullout@reddit

Tim Dillon

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tky@reddit

NPR and indie folks (who are transparent about their leanings) that others have mentioned.

NPR used to put me to sleep when I was younger. Like broccoli, I guess I've aged into liking things that I never thought possible.

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KarmaBike@reddit

Ground News

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Historical_Nail7271@reddit

Me as well. Ground News.

Pro publica. PBS news hour. AP.

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KarmaBike@reddit

I also donate monthly to both NPR & Pro Publica

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rasta-ragamuffin@reddit (OP)

Do you mean word of mouth or hearsay?

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KarmaBike@reddit

https://ground.news/

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Obwyn@reddit

I used to mostly get mine from CNN and FoxNews, but most of the articles on both sites are thinly veiled opinion pieces and “analysis” bits (which are pretty much opinion pieces.)

I’ve started looking directly at AP News and sometimes BBC and NPR more often recently. Still some bias from those sources, but they tend to stick more to the facts for the most part.

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Anonymo123@reddit

i watch local news for anything important locally and general weather info. Anything global I will use the big companies for the main point then research it myself if its important enough to look into.

I lost respect and trust for "the news" long ago and will never fully trust any of them again.

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Comedywriter1@reddit

The BBC Breakfast show my wife and I watch in the morning before work.

The BBC news feed on my phone.

The news that comes up on Reddit.

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CrankyDoo@reddit

Youtube and reddit are my main news sources. Watching the daily news only leads to indigestion and grief, and all if them have a hideous bias one way or the other. I figure anything really important will reach me on reddit and/or youtube, and in the meantime I can avoid all the static and noise of daily news updates.

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jt2ou@reddit

Straight Arrow News (SAN), The Hill, Reuters (until they put up a paywall)

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threedogdad@reddit

I blocked all news and commercials in 2000 and never looked back.

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yanknga@reddit

AP, Reuters and BBC. Online because we don’t really watch the “news” anymore due to low quality.

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limited_instincts@reddit

apnews.com reuters.com bbc.com

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Consistent-Change386@reddit

Where do I get my news??? Gossip with friends over coffee about the unhinged HOA fanatics on our neighborhood’s ND- way more entertaining than the crap going on in the world and our government.

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esk_209@reddit

NPR (and various NPR-adjacent sources), Slate, and (I know exactly how biased this one is and they don't try to hide it) anything from the Crooked Media family (Pod Save..., What a Day, ICYMI, etc).

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Fit_Island8487@reddit

NPR every day on way to and from work. Some correspondents have a left lean, but overall they are one of the few organizations that go out of their way to present fair, honest, accurate reporting and back it up with details.

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rasta-ragamuffin@reddit (OP)

Is that it? You don't read or listen to any other sources?

I agree npr is excellent but they don't and can't cover every relevant issue or current event.

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ZebraBorgata@reddit

I’m all over the place so I get different perspectives. A vast majority is complete garbage. I tune most of it out anyway. Anything that I can (a) not control or (b) doesn’t directly affect me, I pay zero attention to. The news is mostly a giant propaganda machine.

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itwillmakesenselater@reddit

I use a combination of Reuter's, AP, and BBC World Service. Al-jazeera for international stories.

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ToddBradley@reddit

Denverite
Colorado Sun
NYTimes

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FootUpstairs2782@reddit

NPR, BBC News, and memes. In no particular order.

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pinkiepowder@reddit

You’re looking at it