Just wondering your preferences
I use Feeder too.
Feeder for Android and
QuiteRSS on my laptop/ Desktop (yes it’s old and kinda ugly, but it has all the features I like is very solid).
AP, BBC and NPR
Mostly the wire services (Reuters, AP).
NPR, AP, an Reuters are already mentioned. For leftist/left leaning sources I like Jacobin, truth out, it’s going down, Jewish currents, current affairs, the intercept, democracy now, mintpress news (more Canadian centered), and left voice
I tend to follow journalists more than the publications themselves. That said my usual go-to’s would be BBC World, CBC, Al-Jazeera, and AP.
I want to like Al Jazeera, but they are owned by the Qatar government so I am dubious of them.
Its good to be dubious. Its also good to include them to get a different bias into the mix. Only consuming media of the same bias will leave you ignorant without you knowing it, thats the believe I’ve come to adopt.
And you only realize which part of the bias is shared across a lot of media when you read media from outside the bubble. And a lot are within the bubble. To quote wikipedia:
progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of the mass media.
There is enough reason to be dubious about all mass media. BBC is founded and owned by the UK government and many other publications by a billionaire family.
Previously I had thought media literacy was about chosing “reliable” sources but nowadays I believe its more about reading many of different biases and being dubious of all until their bias emerges.
IDK if that resonates with you at all or not. But I can also recommend Noam Chomskys “Manufacturing Consent”, its a classic ofc.
Just a quick correction: the BBC is independent of the government and funded directly by the audience who it is, in theory, answerable to. The government would like to change that.
