Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.

Twitter, now X, was once a useful site for breaking news. The Baltimore bridge collapse shows those days are long gone.

  • Thorny_InsightEnglish
    113·
    3 months ago

    That’s how I get my news. I visit the Finnish equivalence of BBC once or twice a day and that’s my news diet. If they don’t report on it, I don’t need to know. Something like what a VOX journalist thinks about Twitter I couldn’t care less so I don’t even bother reading it. I’m proudly unaware of most of the things that non-serious news organizations report on.

    • viking@infosec.pubEnglish
      81·
      3 months ago

      Same for me with news from Germany. Technically tagesschau.de is a news magazine run by our largest public broadcaster and not the broadcaster itself, but it’s the same thing really.

      And then I casually browse news.google.com in German to skim over headlines that might not have made the mainstream news. My blocklist there features more than 200 “news” sites, so that I really get a curated feed of some 20-30 trustworthy ones.

    • cygon@lemmy.worldEnglish
      51·
      3 months ago

      Vox is a reputable and very thorough news source, though, usually worth the read.

      This two-pager, for example, highlights false Twitter journalists popping in Baltimore to politically spin the recent bridge collapse.

      • Thorny_InsightEnglish
        53·
        3 months ago

        That’s not my point. What I’m saying is that I knowingly limit my news diet to what is the most important/interesting and this is neither so I’m not bothering my mind with it. I don’t need to know and not knowing has zero effect on my life.