As depressing as the state of affairs in the world are, I take an RSS of 
google top stories for general world news, and find that reading just 
the headlines is enough to more or less keep a pulse on how the world 
downturns.  Anything interesting I'll link through to, but I've found 
for probably the last few months I don't even bother with that.  Not 
reading the world news does little to worsen or better my life, so I'll 
take a lessened heap of depression in my life that stems from it.

Google reader is great for this, I have tons of different RSS sources 
that I skim through every day to keep up on everything else I do care 
about from tech vendors, various news aggregators, blogs, job sites, car 
sites, whatever.  Skimming them all and deep-diving where I want keeps 
me pretty well informed.  Hackernews (news.ycombinator.com), the 
register, engadget, ars technica, light reading, various android sites 
are generally some of my more favorites.  For devs and sysadmins (and 
techie geeks in general) I highly recommend hackernews.  If I get any 
impression I'm being marketed to, I kill them quick.

Nausea (and infection) is avoided greatly with use of 
noscript/notscript, adblock plus, and ghostery plugins to avoid directed 
marketing/tracking.  World's smallest violin here when cries of lost ad 
revenue comes up, I'd rather not be annoyed by impure marketing content 
that mistake me for an apple user to feed poop to.  RSS skimming avoids 
this too.

-mb


On 10/02/2012 11:44 AM, joe@actionline.com wrote:
>
> Which news sources (print and/or internet) do y'all prefer?
>
> I'm fed up with *all* media sources ... with all of the bias (both ways),
> spin, distortion, inflammation, exaggeration, ambulance chasing
> sensationalizing, and overdone visual graphics.
>
> Haven't subscribed to any print media for more than 20 years, but used to
> scan the USA Today headlines online; however, since they just changed
> their format to force an excessive (imh) clutter of graphics on us, it is
> no longer a viable option for me.
>
> Are there any online news headline sources that are not radical, liberal,
> left-wing, extremist, fanatic, spinmeisters? ... or (almost as bad)
> extreme right-wingers?
>
> I've tried all those listed at this link and found nothing that seems
> reasonably "fair and balanced" ... and most of all *efficient* without
> excessive clutter.
>
> - - - http://www.upquick.com/best/news.htm - - -
>
> So what would y'all recommend?
>
>
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