Anyone else stop relying on US news sources

[Bluestocking]

I rely on Canadian Broadcast CBC and the BBC. I no longer trust the US based sources.

[JohnSJ]

1. Bloomberg and BBC for me.

[OLDMDDEM]

2. I like the Guardian.

[BBbats]

6. I Like The Guardian As Well.

[markodochartaigh]

3. The Guardian really stepped up

during Trump's first term and it is one of my favorite news sources now.

[malaise]

4. UK Guardian is #1 for me n/t

[Basso8vb]

5. Yes and I stopped watching TV "news" in 2003.

I'm still better informed than most.

[Torchlight]

7. In my apostasy, I give NPR/PBS credibility.

I give watch them, NHK and DW at about the same rate. For-profir media has gotten a little too celebrity-oriented and overlay-dramatic for a guy raised on Cronkite as the standard.

[Celerity]

8. The American Prospect is superb

https://prospect.org/

[malaise]

21. Agree

Rec

[sinkingfeeling]

9. About a decade ago.

[AllaN01Bear]

10. i used to listen to short wave broadcast radio years ago because american news was too biased.

still is . from what i understad, h.f or shortwave is still active .

[ImNotGod]

11. AP is the only US news source I bother with. nt

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

12. I'm a bit embarrassed to admit it, but I start my day scanning DU.

If anything important is happening, links to reliable sources are provided.

It's a great "news digest".

Thanks, Earl

[Bluestocking]

22. I check DU multiple times a day

I can trust what I read on DU because if something is inaccurate the comments will correct any errors or inaccuracy. I always read the comments

[IowaUnionman]

13. News bias

PBS

[Jean Genie]

14. US News?

Wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole!

[DownriverDem]

15. Those but also

MeidasTouch on YouTube (free one)

[Joinfortmill]

16. Done with U.S MSM for the most part.

[kimbutgar]

17. FSTV with Amy Goodman

And I still watch MSM ABC news every night. But Im done with cable news. And my local paper is so weak in their reporting.

[ultralite001]

18. I also read the...

Tennessee Holler... Miami Herald... Buck's County Beacon... + a few others across the country...

My local library is a great newspaper resource...

[Warpy]

19. Yes and no

It has now been 3 years snce I've had a TV and I can't say I miss it much. I turned broadcast news--TV and radio---off in 2004, discovering that Simpsons reruns on at the same time gave me more topical news than the news did.

I get my news on computer but I tend to be selective. Newseum has a listing of domestic and foreign newspapers a day late but if somehing's going on in the world, those newspapers can be a great source of information unobtainable in the US. On YouTube, al Jazeera English, France 24 (English or French in my case) and DW all have streaming and all have great content. Just be aware of the editorial biases--you'll never see a puff piece about Israel on al Jazeera, for instance.

Pro tip: plug in a city or country name and "Times" and about a quarter of the time it will turn up an English language newspaper for the are. When Covid appeared in China, I found the Strats Times (Singapore) to have the best information out there, although that wasn't saying much.

I don't worry that much about domestic news, local TV does their news in more depth than a 30 second segment on national news does. As for goings on in DC, a few presenters who pop up on DU like Meidas cover it pretty well.

Good news sources are still out there, especially if you've got a good bullshit detector and the time to look for the good stuff.

[Quiet Em]

20. My husband and I watched The Insider last night.

It's a 1999 film about Big Tobacco.

What chilled me was how precient it was regarding corporate control of the media especially in where we are today.

There are very few news sources in the US that I trust.

[peacebuzzard]

23. I turned off the channels a long time ago

it helped quite a bit...