OT: Which news source(s) do you prefer?

[Michael Butash]

At the end of the day, all news agencies are trying to make a buck, 
which means they're selling interest in products or view, which lead 
back to product via some level of marketing.  They tell you what you 
want to hear, usually varying for the pitch, but the idea is to hook you 
long enough to push a commercial that results in a sale for a vendor of 
theirs.  They exist to track you, as their ancient business model 
mandates such behavior.  Technology to resist scare them.

Beauty of the internet, is via various privacy modes in browsers, 
plugins, and simple os security you *can* mitigate most invasions, even 
casual (and taken for granted, ahem facebook) ones today.  Browsers 
traditionally have been the worst in giving up privacy (thanks 
microsoft), but noscript alone does wonders, as do other plugins 
mentioned to halt marketing/tracking nonsense.  Good thing some decent 
humans create plugins against corporate greed mongering and/or stupidity.

RSS scraping/aggregating also speeds up perusal significantly hitting a 
_lot_ of content/news each day without the ads as you really don't care 
about 20x banners per 40 different "omg iphone" stories across various 
different sites you'll hit a day.  Your data provider probably 
appreciates a lot less downloaded temporary crap too, especially on 
mobile when you're taxed per gb.  I use greader on my phone to read the 
news, synch realtime to google reader, and finish or review news later 
from my desktop.  Splendid setup actually, highly recommended.  If your 
bullshit meter goes off with a feed, replace them.

I get as much or as little news as I want across a lot of material this 
way.  I'm pretty rarely caught unknowing about most major happenings I 
actually care to know about.

-mb


On 10/02/2012 10:39 PM, Derek Trotter wrote:
> I can't listen to any news on the radio here(Jellico, Tn) during the
> day. None of the two or three fm stations available here do any news. I
> don't pay for the local crappy cable, so I can't watch it on the idiot
> box. I check out the Drudge Report several times a day. Then I'll take a
> look at the Daily Telegraph, the Daily Mail, the Sun, the Register, the
> Jerusalem post and the Melbourne age. Sometimes I'll put on kfyi for
> news. Then there is the news on channel 10 or 15. If any of the others
> stream their news broadcasts please let me know. If I want news and a
> bit of humor to go with it, fark.com is where I go. Although it is
> available online, the financially troubled Arizona Republic doesn't
> appeal to me.
>
> How's that?
>
> On 10/2/2012 21:41, Dazed_75 wrote:
>> I have the same issues so look at multiple source (none in print) but
>> I've been using BBC of late for real life news even though that
>> doesn't get a lot of stateside or local coverage. I don't think the
>> question was about tech news.
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:52 AM, Patricia Wilson
>> <wilson.pr.gm at gmail.com <mailto:wilson.pr.gm at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     For politics and world news foxnews special report. For techie
>>     stuff zdnet.
>>
>>     On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:44 AM, <joe at actionline.com
>>     <mailto:joe at 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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