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How do you guys get your news? (loops.video)

submitted 1 week ago by m_f to c/loops@midwest.social

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Y'all, how do you guys get your news?

I live in Canada and this legislation called Bill C-18 has sort of messed things up in the past year.

If you get your news typically from social media, a lot of platforms have-- I say a lot, but it's really just Meta, but because they own so much, they've stopped allowing the publication of Canadian news on their platforms. So all I'm getting is American news.

I get enough of that from TikTok, you guys. It's harder and I know that you're not supposed to be getting your news all at one place and that social media kind of messes up the integrity of news, but whatever, it's just so much easier when there's, they're all in one place.

I host an RSS reader on my website and it really is just set up to aggregate all of the news from different publications that have RSS feeds, but sometimes it gets overwhelming to have to sift through over 100 articles per day to find the ones that are relevant to me.

Well, I'm looking for ideas here, you guys. Are there more elegant ways to go about this?

If you have ideas, please share.

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Well - again at the risk of sounding old and crusty - younger generations have real issues getting reliable information. They grew up on shallow information and information overload, so their attention span is extremely short. They don't read much if at all (I'm talking sitting down for half an hour to read in peace something with some depth).

I'm not criticizing. It really is the issue of their generation. They of all people deserve accurate information to make informed decisions for their world, they really have a deficit we older folk who grew up without the internet don't have in that respect, and they're being manipulated by sumbitches with an agenda all the more easily as a result.

I think the lady in the video asks a real question. Personally, I'm glad she realizes something's not right with the way she receives information and asking what's wrong and what to do about it. That means she'll never truly be a victim of the aforementioned sumbitches, because she has critical thinking in her. But clearly she needs help to be informed in a way that seems obvious to us, and I really don't think it's a joke.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fair enough.

To provide an actual answer, just go to the wire services (AP, Reuters) and you'll get reliable news that cover like 80% or more of what's happening. Pretty much every news org is padded with wire service stories anyway. Most of what's left to fill in is just local stuff; for those, check out local news stations / local NPR site for quality coverage.

And if they're US based, cross reference them with Media Bias Fact Check to make sure it's a quality source (e.g. not owned by Sinclair)

Aside from vetting local sources, that's like 3 sites tops for about 90+% coverage.