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Who do you go to (website wise) for your news. A lot of the majors are now behind a paywall leaving bbc for me, But i would like a few others if possible.

so whos news do you peruse ?


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 9:13 am
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Associated Press, Reuters,


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 9:15 am
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Daily Mail

Only for the comments though! 🙂


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 9:24 am
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Guardian, bbc mainly


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 9:27 am
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Guardian, bbc mainly

Yup, Guardian on phone (although I pay for it), Beeb on PC


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 9:32 am
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As above. If there's an article I really want to read behind a 10 foot paywall, I use a 12 foot ladder

https://12ft.io/


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 9:33 am
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Guardian (free, but I subscribe to support them).

You can (or used to be able to) access the FT for free, you have to google each article then if you click through from the google results you can read that article for free (I now subscribe so not tried that for years).

New York Times lets you read some stuff for free (or used to, but I now subscribe as it's very cheap for non US residents, first year was $2 a month!).


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 9:35 am
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As above. If there’s an article I really want to read behind a 10 foot paywall, I use a 12 foot ladder

That sort of uses the same trick I used to use with the FT.


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 9:36 am
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The Atlantic is usually excellent for longer articles

https://www.theatlantic.com/world/


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 9:39 am
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Pay for Guardian, used Al Jerzeeha, AP, Reuters. Looked at an FT sub (as the articles are generally reportage without a slant) but it's crazy expensive - £400? or so a year I think.

the 12ft ladder doesn't always work for me like it used to, I think the news sites are getting canny


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 9:43 am
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telegraph is viewable if you temporarily disable javascript in your browser.
"bypass paywalls", a chrome extension used to work on a lot of sites, with the notable exception of the times.

Apologies if this violates some stw rule.


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 12:11 pm
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Sometimes I do the following to read an article behind a paywall:
Right click to open into an incognito window. Hit Ctrl-A then Ctrl-C as soon as it loads.
Paste it into the word processor (or whatever) of your choice (paste as text only if you don't want all the gubbins along with the text).


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 12:46 pm
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Looked at an FT sub (as the articles are generally reportage without a slant) but it’s crazy expensive – £400? or so a year I think.

You can get 1/2 price, I pay £155 a year and they've let it roll over for several years now.


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 2:56 pm
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I don't tend to read the news in that much detail... usually skim down Google news and click on anything interesting, trying to aim for sources I see as more reputable (BBC, Sky, Guardian, anyone else not behind a paywall) and avoid the rubbish from the red tops, Mail, local rags etc.


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 3:03 pm
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Not quite the same thing but I'm a fan of my daily 'The Knowledge' email subscription.


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 3:39 pm
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I don’t tend to read the news in that much detail… usually skim down Google news and click on anything interesting, trying to aim for sources I see as more reputable (BBC, Sky, Guardian, anyone else not behind a paywall) and avoid the rubbish from the red tops, Mail, local rags etc.

Can't you configure it to ignore certain sources?

I mainly use FB as a news aggregator - just follows sites I like and so only see their articles.


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 4:32 pm
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The Guardian. I'd probably pay for the FT if I didn't already subscribe to the NYT.


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 4:35 pm
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Guardian, BBC, Economist and Reuters


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 4:45 pm
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Pretty much every newspaper/outlet worldwide

https://www.thebigproject.co.uk/news/index.htm


 
Posted : 03/11/2022 10:25 pm

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