Agreed on Al-Jazeera. They're one of my favorite news sources.
benstylus wrote:> I do like using Google News to scan headlines every day or two.
>
> I like it because you can tell it not to show the ultra-biased sites, the crap "gotcha"
> stories, sites I have zero interest in, etc. So no Fox News/National Review no Vox/Huffpost,
> no crapty celebrity gossip sites, and so on.
>
> The only downside is even for sites with content that I might occasionally enjoy,
> some of them often post really obvious/terrible clickbait headlines that are in no
> way news (something like "I'm a middle aged mom, and I wore Axe body spray for two
> months to see what it was like" or "Tiktok trend has people shoving cans of pringles
> up their butts. We've tried it with Lays Stax and here's the difference") or the
> actual story is literally a sentence long but they want you to click to their site
> for that sentence when they could just has easily have provided it in the headline
> (something like "New Zelda game release date finally announced." It's May 12. It
> takes less time to type that than the word announced. I get you want clicks so people
> see your ads but C'MON).
>
> Some of the best actual news stories I've read recently have from Al-Jazeera.
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