What newspaper are you paying for these days?
I have been wondering with the total slop that is social media where to get well written and interesting news from. I am not only interested in tech or politics but other topics as well. What are your suggestions?
Substacks. I pay for Matt yglesias, Noah Smith, nate silver, basically with a good record of analysis and accuracy in economic and political topics.
I pay for my local news. I need the news local and close to be to stay around. I read it once in a while, but I think it's ridiculous when one can't even get local news.
Curious, but how local? State? City? Residential community? Asking because I feel everyone makes their own paper and I've done a few since school, but we've always worried the readership isn't that big.
Agreed! If people move to a area and don't feel like they're part of the community, reading the local paper is a great way to figure out what's going on.
Jacobin: https://jacobin.com/
Sell us on Jacobin.
I get most of my news from NPR or BBC. I don't subscribe to either but I used to subscribe to Economist. It's still good but the writing style and tone is cloying.
I've been considering Financial Times to replace it.
It's all bad. The only things even remotely reliable in my experience are SEC filings and market data. Everything else is mostly made up or lies.
How edge.
As a human construct, prices are also entirely made up. Treating them as a positivist 'given' akin to 'facts' from natural sciences misses the wood for the trees.
I sub to Apple News+. Give a good mix of papers and magazines, and a lot of long form articles are broken out and highlighted in their own features.
The Onion has been doing physical newspapers this year and they are entertaining potty reads.
what about The Economist? Is anybody subscribing it? I’m considering buying the paper subscription.
The Information for technical news. https://www.theinformation.com/about
I pay the broadcast tax in Germany. The state-sponsored media covers my humble needs.
None.
WSJ, NYT, and Apple News+
None of the general news sources are worth paying for. "Gell-Mann Amnesia" applies broadly. They depict a perpetual drama. Each focuses from a different perspective, at the same dramatis personae. It's set up this way so viewers can follow, and be entertained. They know the plot threads, the characters, themes, the possible twists to watch for. This is similar to any TV series or cinematic universe. (e.g. Superheros, Tolkien-style fantasy etc)
The themes change over time, but in a gradual, controlled manner. And (nearly) all perspectives point at the latest.
Specialist news sources are sometimes high quality. For example: Quanta magazine, which articles we see frequently here. Ground news is an aggregator that tries to balance out the Left/Right bias of news outlets, but I think this misses the point.
None. I find the quality and mostly left wing bias in the current state unacceptable. Too little neutral reporting and way too much subtle opinion making on the current thing.
If everything leans left, then perhaps left is the neutral point? Globally, I feel like the USA lies to the far right of everyone else.
Bait used to be believable.
> I find the quality and mostly left wing bias in the current state unacceptable
Except when it comes to current geopolitics that is, now we're talking delusionally right wing bias. wink wink
Philadelphia Inquirer, it's owned by a foundation, not a billionaire. I mostly use it for access to daily comic strips.
Colorado Sun, it's a non-profit. I think it was started by refugees from the Rocky Mountain News, after that failed. Mostly general Colorado news, so it's fairly local in scope for these modern times.
About a year ago I still had a few newspapers that I trusted. Reuters, National Post, CTV, financial times, etc.
Today, each one of those have fell. They each provided examples of bias exceeding my threshold. There was a shocking slip of quality in the last 2 years at all of these.
I trust none of them anymore. Journalism has fallen to their own BS.
Yes. None can be trusted.
Top tip - use the web browser translation function to read news websites that are non-english from countries around the world. That way you get some balance.
> There was a shocking slip of quality in the last 2 years at all of these.
The timeline seems to be coinciding with a certain event that happened in 2023
my problem is that I often find some of the articles from big newspapers interesting but never enough to shill out 50 bucks or so a month for their subscription. And subscribing to multiple just is not an option for me currently
> Reuters
Not a newspaper.