!motherjones@rss.ponder.cat - Mother Jones
!propublica@rss.ponder.cat - Pro Publica
!electionlawblog@rss.ponder.cat - Good Politics / Political Law Blog
!drudgereport@rss.ponder.cat - The Drudge Report (I know! I'm as shocked as anybody. With a good-sized blacklist of crap sources in place, it's actually pretty informative)

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You're single-handedly saving this entire thread. I was about to delete it for being off topic.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 1 points 1 day ago

Lmao

Happy to help

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Rss is the way

[–] JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago

Using this thing right here as an RSS reader! TIL.

mongabay@rss.ponder.cat - Mongabay

An excellent source that I'm ashamed I only discovered recently. Consistently first-rate independent journalism on literally the most important subjects there are. Should be better known. Read. Donate.

Great other choices too.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 9 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wow you can use Lemmy as an RSS feed? Will these posts overpower local stuff though?

Hopefully me clicking on these won't mean the all view on my instance is now completely overtaken by this stuff...

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

Depends on exactly which ones you subscribe to. I sub'd to the Guardian and was immediately overwhelmed.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

I don't think it should. "Active" sort should mostly only show the ones that have some user engagement to them, and "Scaled" sort should only show ones that are either from a few minutes ago, or have a handful of upvotes to them, or from sources that very rarely post. "Scaled" is honestly pretty good, IDK why it is not the default.

Also, I make an effort not add feeds to it willy-nilly and to blacklist ones that tend to post spam or other stupid content. Some admins will remove everything from rss.ponder.cat from their front page feed, also, which makes sense to me.

I was a little bit surprised to see that only a few of them are federated to slrpnk right now. These are already subscribed to from slrpnk, though, so you can check them out without a trace of guilt:

It's honestly a very pleasingly slrpnk-vibe collection of communities. 😃

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

You're my hero.

Brb setting up RSS feeds on every device I've got

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 weeks ago

ground news

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 18 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I'm usually trusting Reuters or AP news

Though I've heard of ground.news and have been thinking about subscribing, DAE have experience with them? Are they as unbiased as they claim?

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Reuters usually has half decent articles, but they're owned by billionaires out of Canada. This look into them was done late last year: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12174374

AP has some sketch board members as shown here: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/12174861

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

While Reuters is obviously written from a neoliberal perspective, I think as long as you are aware of that, their coverage is fine. It's very fact based. It's designed to provide information for investors who are trying to make money from current events, so they have an incentive to do accurate coverage, but of course they will mainly cover things that are relevant to the finance world.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 5 points 3 weeks ago

Agree. The whole idea of "balancing" news coverage by combining together US-left and US-right is pretty boneheaded, but there's actually a solid concept somewhere in there. I think combining factually strong sources, with a genuine variety of slants and takes on the news, will set you up to understand things pretty well. Reuters / NYT / Wapo is okay (for now), Al Jazeera is okay, The Guardian or some other establishment-left news is okay, and all of them are mostly unlikely to just straight-up lie to you factually, so if you combine them I feel like you're set up with a decently complete picture of the facts. And then of course there are details and opinions that can come in a lot higher quality from some other more niche sources.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Publically owned or controlled (or at least majority owned and controlled) news services in major countries

CBC - in Canada (where I'm from)
PBS - in the US
NPR - in the US
ABC - Australia
BBC - in the UK
France 24 - in France
NHK - in Japan
DW - in Germany

Although there are criticisms for each, at the very least, they give a good guidance to relevant straight forward news without too much spin.

[–] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What about NPR in the US as well

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the reminder .... added!

[–] bigboismith@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

My local government news. Call me a sheep but since they don't farm clicks they seem to have the most nuanced and engaging stories. For-profit news these days are just doom-posting and rage bait.

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 4 points 3 weeks ago

@bigboismith You're probably referring to some sort of public broadcaster, right? That's actually quite a good source if the management is not politically controlled/infiltrated in any way by any political party

@fuzzy_feeling

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I try to stick to AP/Reuters. They tend to be more direct and less wordy. BBC, NPR, sometimes Guardian, NYT, and other news sources follow in approximately that order.

[–] scoobford@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 weeks ago

The BBC, AP, and Reuters are a good place to start.

I like Erin in the Morning, Propublica, and Bellingcat as well, but they require additional work to parse sometimes.

[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Personally I love PBS/NPR (both National and my local station; support your local station!), The Verge, TWiT/This Week in Tech, Daily Tech News Show, Democracy Now!, C4 News, and Web3 is Going Great.

[–] dumples@midwest.social 2 points 3 weeks ago

I do my local national public radio every day. Great local coverage and balanced fact driven national coverage. I have donated to them for a decade now. No regrets

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 6 points 3 weeks ago

BBC Radio 4's hourly news bulletin just before the Archers. That and BBC News headline notifications.

[–] isaaclw@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Democracy now is doing excellent coverage of palestine. Also the majority report.

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Associated Press is great for world news. They're a bit slow but you get less mistakes.

For important news like Linux news, destination Linux, brodie Robinson and the Linux experiment are my goto.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

less mistakes

oh the dross other outlets push aren't mistakes ...

[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What does dross mean?

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 5 points 3 weeks ago

waste, garbage, trash, The scum that forms on the surface of molten metal as a result of oxidation, worthless

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

You get fewer mistakes

I'm sorry, the irony was too much to ignore

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[–] TxTechnician@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 weeks ago

I got a local loud mouth who listens to Infowars

I just assume the opposite of what he says is true. So far it's working

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago

Not a news source, but commentary. I watch/listen to breaking points https://www.youtube.com/@breakingpoints

they cite drop site news frequently https://www.dropsitenews.com/

and I read Ken Klippenstein https://www.kenklippenstein.com/

[–] zerozaku@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago

I don't follow news. If it's big enough, it will reach me some or the other way.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

https://text.npr.org/

[–] petrescatraian@libranet.de 2 points 3 weeks ago

@fuzzy_feeling too many of them tbh. I also gotta do some cleanup at some point:
postimg.cc/7GXfY6Sn

There's plenty more in my Feedly account, some duplicates, cannot catch them all. At this point, I returned to getting what's currently in the spotlight.

[–] FallopianSphincter@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I''m a big fan of Some More News on YouTube.

[–] crozilla@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Judd Legum, actual journalist who does the legwork.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

the comment section

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[–] macattack@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

I used to be a Google News junkie, but I stopped using their products. Now, I have a more streamlined view via these two: https://www.newsminimalist.com/ https://www.boringreport.org/app

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Lemmy and the google news feed. Sometimes my family members.

[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I have 306 RSS sources soooo you're gonna have to be more specific :)

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[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

These days I try to avoid the news.

[–] wowbaggerip@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Roca News @ridethenews is my go to but I've tuned most things out at this point to try and stay sane.

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