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by tomaytotomato 29 days ago
> If you are averse to the Daily Mail, you can try this article instead..

The irony of this though is that you just become bucketed in another consumer group.

Resist the packaging of yourself by media firms and marketing.

Try and consume news through the sources like AFP or Reuters (unfortunately not free anymore)

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> ... bucketed in another consumer group ... Resist the packaging of yourself by media firms and marketing.

> Suggests some different buckets.

I subscribe to Reuters. I've been using it as my primary source of non-tech news for the past 5 years.

Compared to the Guardian or CNN, the reporting is much less subjective and less editorialized, and, outside of Breaking Views, I've yet to find an article with an obvious ideological bent.

It's not ideal, but it is better. Sure, it's probably still a bucket, but at least the lid isn't tightly shut, and there's no fire beneath it that's going to slowly cook you over time. I switched to Reuters when the war in Ukraine started: it was the only source of news that wasn't very obviously, in-your-face biased. It's not the best source for longer-form reporting, but for news, I'm much happier in this bucket than in the alternatives I tried.

The problem is that AFP, AP and Reuters supply the news to these big outlets and have done for decades. Sometimes this comes out in different papers using the same phrasing.

It means that our news is filtered through a handful of outlets, and is dependent on their own policies.