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9 votes
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What are reliable sites for thoughtful content from a non-American perspective?
I came across a site about Chinese tech and video gaming and found it very Buzzfeed-y with its headlines and writing. It made me wonder what are the websites that curate a standard of thoughtful...
I came across a site about Chinese tech and video gaming and found it very Buzzfeed-y with its headlines and writing. It made me wonder what are the websites that curate a standard of thoughtful articles, essays, discussion, etc. and aren't part of the American internet scene.
I don't care what language it's in, what it's about, what country specifically it's centered on, if it's community-centric or not. If you have a suggestion, let's hear it.
Edit: An example I have is The Blizzard. It's really a subscription-model digital magazine (about soccer) but you can read various articles online.
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The Verge is sending out copyright strikes to people who criticized their PC build
For those of you not in the loop, the Verge created a PC build guide back in September, and it was...bad, to put it lightly. They took down the original video after a storm of criticism, but this...
For those of you not in the loop, the Verge created a PC build guide back in September, and it was...bad, to put it lightly. They took down the original video after a storm of criticism, but this guy reuploaded it, if you want to see it.
Kyle (aka Bitwit) created a response video to it, which got copyright striked (which is more severe than a claim and has to be done by a human, unlike content ID claims), in addition to ReviewTechUSA. Ironically, the Verge published an article about abuse of the copyright system just 3 days ago (2 days when the videos were taken down yesterday).
The Verge should have taken more responsibility to begin with, now that the dust have settled they seem bent on reminding everyone how bad their video was.
Edit: Bauke pointed out Kyle's video is back up! This is not because the Verge retracted their claim, but because YouTube actually had a human review it and determine it was fair use (which usually isn't the case from what I've heard).
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How do you get your news?
With so many news organizations spreading false information and relying on clickbaity titles to get views, it is getting harder to find quality journalism. So what are some of the resources which...
With so many news organizations spreading false information and relying on clickbaity titles to get views, it is getting harder to find quality journalism.
So what are some of the resources which you use to get your news without having to wade through a sea of pointless headlines.22 votes -
How Facebook Screwed Us All - It’s not just spreading phony stories everywhere—it’s killing real news
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If you're drugged and raped, the police may never know. Here's why.
6 votes -
How fake news was weaponized in Nigeria's elections
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Fairfax to return with investigative news website
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Do racists like Fox News, or does Fox make people racist?
14 votes -
Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer of extortion and blackmail
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News to me
4 votes -
This business helped transform Miami into a national plastic surgery destination. Eight women died.
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How did Arron Banks afford Brexit?
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Quality news sources
Independent, investigative journalism in the public interest is becoming harder and harder to find. This is a shame because an informed public is critical for democracy to function effectively....
Independent, investigative journalism in the public interest is becoming harder and harder to find. This is a shame because an informed public is critical for democracy to function effectively.
What news sources do you recommend for people trying to avoid the distraction of biased, sensationalist outlets like Fox News or CNN?
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BuzzFeed slashes Australian workforce as boss makes Twitter gaffe
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Facebook moves to block ad transparency tools- including ours
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Media industry loses about 1,000 jobs as layoffs hit news organizations
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Microsoft Edge browser flags Daily Mail Online as untrustworthy
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The best of the Long Read in 2018
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The rise of Ksenia Sobchak - from TV presenter to politician | Unreported World
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Inside China's audacious global propaganda campaign
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How to keep the news coming
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Australian Cardinal George Pell convicted of child sex abuse offences - but reporting of this is banned in Australia.
So... here's an article I read in my newspaper earlier this week: "Why the media is unable to report on a case that has generated huge interest online". As you might imagine, this left me quite...
So... here's an article I read in my newspaper earlier this week: "Why the media is unable to report on a case that has generated huge interest online". As you might imagine, this left me quite unenlightened. I had no way of knowing or guessing what this case was, or who was involved. It was only a few days later, in conversation with some people I work with, that I found out what had happened.
And this is the first chance I've had since then to sit down and research the story for myself.
In short, Cardinal George Pell, the most senior Catholic Church official to stand trial for sexual abuse, has been convicted of sexual abuse offences relating to his time as Archbishop of Melbourne in the late 1990s.
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From the National Catholic Reporter: "Cardinal Pell found guilty of sex abuse, expected to appeal, reports say"
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From the Washington Post: "Australian court convicts once-powerful Vatican official on sex-abuse-related charges"
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From the Daily Beast: https://www.thedailybeast.com/vatican-no-3-cardinal-george-pell-on-trial-for-historical-child-sex-charges (I can't confirm this one - it's reportedly geo-blocked for Australian readers)
However, the Victorian court hearing the case has imposed a suppression order on the case, which applies in every jurisdiction in Australia. We have seen no reporting of the case as it proceeded, and no reporting of the outcome.
Before some people start assuming that this is protecting the Church, it's related to the right of an accused person to a free trial. Cardinal Pell is facing another trial in a few months for further charges of sexual abuse on a minor (relating to his time as a priest in Ballarat in the 1970s), and the court feels that reporting the outcome of this trial will potentially influence any possible jurors for that trial. Those possible jurors should go into that trial without any preconceived ideas of the accused person's guilt - and reporting that he is guilty of similar charges will undermine his right to a fair trial.
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From the Washington Post: "A top cardinal’s sex-abuse conviction is huge news in Australia. But the media can’t report it there."
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From the New York Post: "Australian media barred from covering cardinal’s conviction for sex abuse
All that we in Australia are being told is "George Pell removed from Pope Francis's cardinal advisory body". It's obvious why he was removed... if you know about the conviction.
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Ben Hunte named first LGBT correspondent for BBC News
6 votes -
After audit, no Chinese surveillance implants in Supermicro boards found
10 votes -
'We’re going to kill you': Nicaragua's brutal crackdown on press freedom
9 votes -
A news consumer’s guide to ‘astroturf’ sources
7 votes -
Time is different now
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Trump-Russia is too complex to report. We need a new kind of journalism
10 votes -
Fairfax Media shareholders vote for Channel Nine merger
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'White' magazine shuts down after refusing to feature same-sex weddings
A news article: 'White' magazine shuts down after refusing to feature same-sex weddings The farewell message: Farewell
10 votes -
Former Macedonian strongman's escape to Hungary triggers a flood of disinformation
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I found the best burger place in America. And then I killed it.
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Katharine Viner: 'The Guardian's reader funding model is working. It's inspiring'
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Should the press boycott Trump? Political strategists weigh in
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We Wish to Plead Our Own Cause: The past and future of America’s black press
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‘As Someone Who Has Had My Press Credentials Denied by Authoritarian China, I Never Thought I’d See This Crap Happen in the US’
10 votes -
White House revokes press pass from CNN's Jim Acosta
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A Financial Times editor calls for a Fox News advertiser boycott
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The news is bad in Hungary: "Viktor Orban didn’t like what the press was reporting, so he took it over."
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'Journalism while brown': Why Sunny Dhillon quit The Globe and Mail
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The National Enquirer’s plot to assassinate Ted Cruz’s US candidacy
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Amazon pulls ads from Bloomberg, and Apple did not invite Bloomberg to its Oct. 30 event—both allegedly over China hacking story
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I feel like one of the biggest digital losses of the last five years was the rise and fall of independent news networks
There was a brief (an oh-so-brief) period in youtube history where all types of non-corporate content thrived. I'm referring, if memory serves, to the timespan from around 2011 - late 2014. This...
There was a brief (an oh-so-brief) period in youtube history where all types of non-corporate content thrived. I'm referring, if memory serves, to the timespan from around 2011 - late 2014.
This was after youtube initially got big, but before Google decided that it wanted to step in and maintain the cultural status quo rather than redefine it. Ad revenue paid creators fairly-ish in most cases, and the talk of the town was machinima assfucking it's segment of poor souls that signed into it, rather than youtube pulling the same moves universally as it did a few years later.
(Suffice to say I have no love for the platform).
It's important to note that at this time, Youtube was a bit like a small-scale television enterprise, before it dreamed of deliberately becoming one. Youtube had everything from animations to product reviews, news to reality programming to VFX extravaganzas.
One of the most incredibly important innovations of the time, and one that's been all-but-lost, was the birth (and subsequent heat-death) of youtube news channels.
These channels mirrored cable news, but without the influence of corporate sponsors getting in the way, and without the ravenous need to appease political parties and harebrained cable tv viewers. They were biased - good god were some of them biased - and they weren't perfect, but they were set up in such a way that, had youtube not fucked it up (sigh...) they might've someday dethroned CNN, MSNBC and Fox.
With the next election coming up and shaping up to be a small-scale repeat of 2018s (you're kidding yourself if we're every going to go any other direction than further down at this point - after all, it works!) it's important to remember that there was, for a beautiful gleaming moment, a chance for not a corporation, but a community, to rise up and redefine the way people received news in a way that hadn't been seen since the conception of the newspaper.
Instead, youtube squandered it. Real events and engaging content don't generate views. People can't sit and watch hours of current events like they do for whatever-the-hell youtube trends nowadays (list videos and toy openings, I guess?), and why would they? If you get on youtube to watch today's news, you're not going to stick around for yesterday's. So youtube's 'algorythm', a word I've come to absolutely detest, doesn't favor them just like it doesn't favor basically anything else that once made youtube great.
The icing on the cake: rather than embrace even a tertiary aspect of the community, they went for the safe option and the ad revenue. No Phillip Defranco for you, we'll show you Jimmy Kimmel. No TYT, we'll fill trending with clips of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News. The only real survivor of the era was infowars.
Here's to you, youtube news. Dead and gone, but not forgotten.
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Two more bombs found, addressed to Cory Booker and CNN in the US
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Not real news: The Associated Press reports on this week's most shared fake news
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Apple CEO Tim Cook is calling for Bloomberg to retract its Chinese spy chip story
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Six red carnations and one severed ram’s head: Deadly threats sent to Russian independent newspaper
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How Facebook’s Chaotic Push Into Video Cost Hundreds of Journalists Their Jobs
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One man’s (very polite) fight against media Islamophobia
5 votes