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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] 71 points 1 month ago (5 children)

fetal position in the bathtub, lights off, noize cancelling headphones playing static

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

don't forget the bottle of cheap booze

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Pink noise sounds soothing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Glad to see that other people are doing the same thing as me

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

That profile pic is amazing

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

A little too literal, but I like your style, lol

[–] [email protected] 68 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The Associated Press seems to have a decent results presentation ready to go:
https://apnews.com/projects/election-results-2024/

I wouldn't bother watching minute-by-minute. There is a decent chance that some swing state will be close enough to trigger a recount, and/or one side files lawsuits challenging the results. This circus is far from over.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It took about a week for Biden to be declared the winner last time IIRC.

What I'm really dreading is another Bush v. Gore, which would almost certainly result the same as it did the first time around.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

The fact that the Electoral College was determined to be more important than the people's votes was shameful.

Al Gore and Hillary should have won.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

The fact that the Electoral College was determined to be more important than the people’s votes was shameful.

Huh? First of all the Electoral College has never not been the basis for presidential elections, and second of all that election had nothing to do with the Electoral College. It had to do with hanging chads, Florida governor Jeb Bush, and the Supreme Court.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just drink alcohol in the basement alone and check the internet in a week.

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

In January... 2029

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Stay offline entirely, and read the result in a printed newspaper the next day

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

It'll be more than a day. Expect a week and be pleasantly surprised by 5 days.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I'm sorry to inform you, but Burgerland is not technologically advanced enough to tally the results in a day.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

all of our media is controlled by capitalists so i plan on going with organizations that have had a reliable history within the last decade or so; like democracynow or npr.

[–] [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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

NPR is state media, and who runs the state? The capitalist class.

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

very true and if it weren't for the tireless efforts of their journalists i would have classified it as the same category as the others.

i think that the best you can do under the overwhelming circumstances in my country is to try and i think that they are trying despite their own biases manifesting themselves from time to time and their perpetual funding dance with partners like the imperial gov't and the american oligarchs.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Most of the major newspapers (this is from a UK perspective but I'd imagine they're accessible in other places) have a live news page for big developing news stories - the BBC site is probably a good unbiased-ish one

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Unless I take the extreme measure of touching grass, social media will keep me apprised unbidden.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Open your neobroker app, if Trump won, the market will crash before it made the news.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Jane Street Capital lost like $100m 8 years ago assuming this would happen and it didn't.

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

Yeah looks like the wallstreet is looking forward for deregulations. Haha

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Depending on which bit of the market you look at I suspect it could also go up.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I think the US news sites are going to post their live updates to their websites too, that is at least how it was the last few presidential elections (I think I mostly used CNN). That is the same data they use for their news coverage, so you could use that; but watching live television will give you a clue when important updates have happened on them.

Of course you could just follow election-related hashtags on Mastodon to get a wide variety of people shouting all kinds of things about the election.

[–] Muffi 6 points 1 month ago

Some More News will do a livestream of the results. They are usually on point with their analysis and sources.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Maybe good ol newspapers or eventually check if the federal government has an official result page

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

The federal government doesn’t run the elections so you’d have to check the 51 Secretary of State (or equivalent) sites to actually get live results.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Hasan Poker ain't for everyone but he's super knowledgeable and provides great context for ongoing issues. I mainly watch on YouTube so the clips are edited down and even more context (charts, sources, etc) are added.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Local news usually have a webpage or a YouTube channel keeping track of stuff too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Your state likely has a web page designated for election results, so you could get information straight from the source for everything you voted for in your state and see which way your state goes for the presidential election. Your county website may also have a page to show whether any propositions were accepted or rejected.

I'm not sure about a better source to see where all 50 states' results are reported. Maybe Balllotpedia has something that updates. I'm not sure the federal government would have something because the official results won't happen until January 6 when a joint session of Congress reads and counts the votes from the Electoral College (who doesn't vote until December 17).

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

The Philip DeFranco Show on YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i plan to just find out when someone on lemmy mentions it in passing

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

Not so much plan to as resigned to πŸ˜…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

For just the results. Decision Desk HQ gets updated quickly, as they provide data to media outlets and others. I don’t think they require a subscription just for results. The AP does the same and generally β€œcalls” states anyway. (As in, the networks will call the results when the AP does, though some have extra requirements like their own data team agreeing.)

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

Probably europe or Australia. Though I know some people who have no complaints about doing it in Thailand

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

@punkaccountant
You could follow the #RSS feed of something like The Guardian online news...