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6 votes
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BuzzFeed to acquire HuffPost in multi-year partnership with Verizon Media
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Do you read 'old news'/article archives?
Asked because I like the idea of reading about the past and feel unsatisfied by r/history and r/askhistorians mainly because reddit's search isn't that great and those subs have a much wider scope...
Asked because I like the idea of reading about the past and feel unsatisfied by r/history and r/askhistorians mainly because reddit's search isn't that great and those subs have a much wider scope than most news archives.
I'm gonna do this on a Q&A format. Note that "old news" doesn't need to be news articles, it can be blogs for example.
If you read old news/articles, where do you get them from/find them?
What kind of "old news" do you read?
What historical period do you tend to read about?
If you're reading an article about a historical event you remember, how does your memory tend to compare to those articles?
How often do you do it?
What do you think about subreddits like r/twentyyearsago, since they're basically trawling through those news archives?
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If you read any news sources/publications for more specific/alternative subjects, what are they?
Tl;dr typical news sources tend to prioritize political and governmental events and the things that surround them, like economics and social issues, even if they cover everything, and by covering...
Tl;dr typical news sources tend to prioritize political and governmental events and the things that surround them, like economics and social issues, even if they cover everything, and by covering everything they probably stretch themselves thinly among what they don't prioritize. (At least that's how it feels.)
A few examples of what I'm thinking of are:
Foreign Affairs, who focus specifically on geopolitics
The Scientific American, which focuses specifically on... science.
Aeon, which seems to focus on "the humanities". (
vaaague.)So... what are your examples of news sources/publications like this that you follow?
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Denmark confronts sexual harassment at work – more than 1,600 women have signed an open letter alleging the problem is rife in Danish media
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Ultra Strips Down is a Danish children's TV show that aims to counter a social media that bombards young people with images of perfect bodies
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The historical amnesia of culture warriors
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A newsroom at the edge of autocracy; The South China Morning Post is arguably the world’s most important newspaper for what it tells us about media freedoms as China’s power grows
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QAF: A Chinese fan-forum that's grown into a hub for volunteers subtitling foreign LGBTIQ media and a support community
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There are so many coronavirus myths that even Snopes can’t keep up
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Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s war against the media
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Australian Associated Press sells the AAP Newswire
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Latest $84 million cuts rip the heart out of the ABC, and Australia's democracy
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America needs a ministry of (actual) truth
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Podcast discussions & recommendations! What are you listening to?
Tildes has had a couple of threads about podcast recommendations in the past, but most of them are over 18 months old now, and podcasts are always evolving, and we have new members who may not...
Tildes has had a couple of threads about podcast recommendations in the past, but most of them are over 18 months old now, and podcasts are always evolving, and we have new members who may not have participated in those threads before—I certainly only picked up podcasts in the last few months.
So. Three questions!
- What podcasts are you listening to?
- What podcasts have you dropped, or picked up, in that time?
- If you had to recommend a couple of podcasts to others, which shows would you pick? Why do you recommend them? Got a favourite episode?
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The American press is destroying itself
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Facebook and Google refuse to pay revenue to Australian media
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Critics warn of multimedia 'hell' (1995)
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How Western media would cover Minneapolis if it happened in another country
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New and different: How to consume news in this or any catastrophe
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No, NASA didn't find a parallel universe where time runs backward
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America’s largest media labor union launches historic advocacy campaign to save industry: "having robust news operations at the local and state level is fundamentally good for democratic stability."
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At first, the disappearance of the wife of one of Norway's richest people seemed to be an abduction – but then suspicion turned on the husband
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“Immune to evidence”: How dangerous coronavirus conspiracies spread
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Philippines largest TV network ABS-CBN ordered shut
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Finland enlists social influencers in fight against Covid-19 – government advice sent to bloggers, rappers and writers to get to those not reached by traditional media
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China bans journalists from the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal in retaliation for state media restrictions by the Trump administration
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Are social networks polarizing? A Q&A with Ezra Klein | The Interface with Casey Newton, Issue #464, Feb 27
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US to treat Chinese state media like an arm of Beijing's government
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How could we regulate biased/lying media outlets and aggregators without encroaching on good ones?
I find this to be a pretty important question when news organizations like Fox News are literally aiming to help the Republican Party to stay on power, CNN and MSNBC promote centrist candidates...
I find this to be a pretty important question when news organizations like Fox News are literally aiming to help the Republican Party to stay on power, CNN and MSNBC promote centrist candidates and media aggregators ranging from r/the_donald to r/chapotraphouse banning anyone who opposes them. Thing is, these are the most well known examples. How could we tell faulty media sources and aggregators apart from good ones in mass? Do you think that's possible?
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“Flood the zone with shit”: How misinformation overwhelmed our democracy
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Are there any personalized recommendation engines/sites that you trust?
In the 2000s I used to use a service called last.fm (originally called Audioscrobbler) that would track the music I listened to and give me recommendations based on that. It was able to give me...
In the 2000s I used to use a service called last.fm (originally called Audioscrobbler) that would track the music I listened to and give me recommendations based on that. It was able to give me some really great personalized suggestions, but that came at the expense of me handing over significant amounts of personal data.
In prioritizing privacy, I feel like I've stepped away from a lot of the big recommendation engines because they're tied to data-hungry companies I am in the process of disengaging with (e.g. Goodreads is owned by Amazon). I can still find stuff I like, but it's often the result of manual searching that turns up popular recommendations that work for me, rather than less well-known or acutely relevant things. last.fm was good at giving me less "obvious" recommendations and would find music I was unlikely to find on my own. I want that, but for all of my media: books, movies, etc.
There's a second concern in that I also feel like I can't trust platforms like Netflix, who seem to prioritize their content over that of other studios. Their recommendations feel weighted in their favor, not mine.
What I want is an impartial recommendation engine that gives me high quality personalized suggestions without a huge privacy cost.1 Is this a pipe dream, or are there examples of this kind of thing out there?
1. I don't mind handing over some of my specific interest data in order to get good recommendations for myself and help a site's algorithms cater to others, as I get that's how these things work. I just don't like the idea of my interests being even more data for a company that already has thousands of intimate data points on me.
18 votes -
Almost everyone at CollegeHumor lost their jobs today
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Given up sugar? Great, now it’s time to cut the news from your diet
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The internet made trans people visible. It also left them more vulnerable.
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Hundreds of ‘pink slime’ local news outlets are distributing algorithmic stories and conservative talking points
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Like This Or Die - The fate of the book review in the age of the algorithm
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What are some good news outlets you would recommend?
Ideally without any paywall since I am a long way away from even being able to work.
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It's time to break up Disney: Part one
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Deadspin revolt escalates, with mass resignations by staff
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The Washington Post is the latest mainstream media outlet to dedicate resources to covering games. Past efforts at other publications have failed—why is this time going to be different?
10 votes -
Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?
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'Everything you're seeing is deception.' How right-wing media talks about impeachment
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Vox Media acquires New York Magazine
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The lies behind Area 51
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Andrew Yang gets media cold shoulder
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Greta Thunberg has spoken about her Asperger's syndrome diagnosis after she was criticised over the condition
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Donald Trump, QAnon and an impending judgment day: Behind the Facebook-fueled rise of The Epoch Times
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Free speech tropes - Common misstatements, misconceptions, and bad arguments about the First Amendment in American media
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Forty rebuttals to the media’s smears of Julian Assange – by someone who was actually there
8 votes