How I Source (Dis)Information

[poliphilo]

 I haven't watched the TV News (any channel, any nation) for months. 

I've never been on Twitter or Facebook or any of those platforms.

I skim the Guardian and the Mail for their headlines. The Guardian makes it easy to exercise restraint by witholding the text of most of its stories from those who haven't registered. And right now I don't want to share my information with any organisation unless I absolutely have to. The Mail makes it easy by having most of its stories be about celebrities, royal and otherwise. 

I watch Russell Brand, I read Glenn Greenwald. I mooch around the Internet picking up titbits here and there.

Comments

[cmcmck]

I hear the radio news on Classic FM first thing and like you, I pick up bits on here.

It's many years since I've read the Grauniad- since it decided to become a transphobic rag! The Mail has long been one.

[poliphilo]

I used to identify as a Guardian reader, but that's a long time ago now...

[lokbiiviing]

I browse through the paper and let the news reach me when they're on TV or the radio. I sort of accept them but I don't search for them.

[poliphilo]

That seems sensible.