At 11:36 PM 10/2/2012, Michael Butash wrote:
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...@gmail.com <mailto:wilson.pr...@gmail.com>> wrote:
For politics and world news foxnews special report. For techie
stuff zdnet.
On Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:44 AM, <j...@actionline.com
< mailto:j...@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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