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Where is the best place to keep up with US election results? (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I refuse to watch cable news, don’t have regular tv, and not a fan of visual media for news anyways. I would love something like a Lemmy/reddit mega thread where I can refresh and get up to the minute updates, but from professional news/journalists. But without the faux drama reality tv stuff that the cable news networks always do. I also love podcasts so if there’s a listening medium that isn’t overly dramatic that works too. Any suggestions?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Is it bad that I get most of my non-local news from foreign sources? I do look at the AP and NPR but I usually go to the BBC or Reuters first and I almost always check the CSM for international stories I want more information on.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Reuters, BBC are fine, AP as well. Al Jazeera is good too. Always be aware of the media biases, nevertheless. Look how they frame and write.

Do they say:

[ethnic thing] arrested and stopped by Police...
or do they say:
Police murders person...

and;
Trump victim of woke witchhunt / Harris loyal to Israel
or:
"The elections have started."

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

i don't think that they're much different, if at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The BBC and Reuters have both gone way, way downhill in recent years, but the concept is reasonably valid. AP and NPR are still good. Aljazeera is actually pretty decent for US news, though I'm not sure if that's true for US news related to the middle east.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I think Al Jazeera is good for news related to the middle east - Al Jazeera has an Arab bias, the same way US news has a US/Israel bias. When there's a conflict between US/Israel and the Arabs, I tend to be more sympathetic to the Arabs, so I prefer their news. Somebody with politics different from mine would disagree.

Plus they sometimes put out absolute fire like this: https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/9/11/debate-in-nuclear-armed-former-colony-fails-to-reassure-global-community