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Where to keep up with news/ current events without social media?
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I dropped twitter when Elon took over, I left Facebook a few months ago, I deleted TikTok when the temp ban started. I didn’t intend to completely stop using social media, but now I’m thinking it would be my best move. My plan is to keep this momentum going and get off instagram next month and then finally Reddit by March.
The only issue I am anticipating is where I will get my current events info. I’m 26, social media has been one of the big sources of news since I was a kid. Of course I don’t automatically believe whatever I see online, but I see a lot of things for the first time on these apps.
I can start reading/watching traditional news sources (CNN/ NYT etc) but I also want more details on things that I don’t think they will necessarily be reporting on like public health info (bird flu) and keeping up with the antics of our current administration.
Any tips for keeping up with the world without being stuck to social media? Podcast recs? Websites or papers to read?
Top Comment: Thanks for being a concerned citizen. I would suggest staying away from cable news--even CNN. It's designed to keep you agitated and stressed so you can't look away. Print journalism is going to be the best way to go but limit the amount of time you spend reading it per day/per week and try not to read it on your phone. A mix of newspaper and longer form journalism (magazines like The Economist, The New Yorker, Substacks from journalists/reputable sources) is what Cal Newport suggests in Digital Minimalism. The longer form stuff will give you deeper dives on topics of interest, which it sounds like you're already looking for. Your Local Epidemiologist on Substack covers public health. For quick news podcasts, NYT The Headlines and NPR's Up First are a couple good ones.
Did YouTube TV get rid of Multi-View News view?
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This week it just disappeared unless it did just for me? It had Fox, CNN, MSNBC and BBC. Now it seems to be just sports, weather and I think Money channels. Anyone know?
Sure wish they just allowed us to choose our own!
Top Comment: I also wish there were an option to choose your own multiviews.
What happened to the News Multiview?
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Has the news multiview (featuring CNN, MSNBC, Fox News and BBC News) suddenly vanished for anyone else?
From Home I click down to “Watch in Multiview” — there are tons of Olympics options, a business news multiview (with CNBC and Fox Business), Weather Multiview, and Sports (ESPN, ESPN2, NBA, FS1) but the news multiview isn’t anywhere to be seen.
I’m on Roku.
Top Comment: I did figure out a solution to this. It's a Band-Aid but it works. Highlight the word Home in the YouTube TV app and then press OK. The entire Home menu then reloads. About 60% to 70% of the time, the News MultiView then comes back if you scroll down. About 30% to 40% of the time it doesn't, and you need to do it again. Eventually, after at most two or three tries, it will come back. No one at YouTube TV support is aware of this problem or knows how to solve it. I went through two weeks of hell with their support before I finally stumbled on the solution myself. The big problem with support is that they know -- -- NOTHING -- -- about the non-sports MultiViews; they don't even know they exist. Every time I tried to explain the problem, they started babbling about games and durations and changing stations and nonsense, baloney, blah blah blah. They don't know their ass from a hole in the wall.
What's a good news aggregator to read? (paid ok)
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Hi. I hope I can ask here. I'm asking you, specifically, EKS listeners, Vox readers, and the like who know what good news and journalism look like.
I'm paying $14 a month for Apple News, which works alright (includes Vox, Pro Publica, and others), but for the number of ads I see, I wonder what I'm paying for. The only useful thing is reading some paywalled articles, such as WSJ.
I like aggregators for the variety. I've looked at Google News, it's ok. Please share any that you'd recommend. TIA.
Top Comment: I use Feedly and subscribe to the sites I think matter via RSS. I haven't found another service that beats RSS.