Democracy Now! VS AP News

Experiencing human stories and situations first-hand and putting a face and a name on what exactly happened is one of the best ways to gradually become slightly more enlightened. Everyone needs a passport and to travel, including to places that make them uncomfortable, to find out what life is about, to separate the real from lies, and realize there are wonders and wonderful people throughout the world. Spoiler... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

Democracy Now! Is an independent global news hour that airs on over 1,500 TV and radio stations Monday through Friday. Watch our livestream at https://democracynow.org Mondays to Fridays 8-9 a.m. ET. Source: about 1 year ago

DemocracyNow.org is a great example of publicly funded, non-corporate media if anyone's looking for alternatives. Source: over 1 year ago

I suggest Pacifica Radio. They haven't embraced corporate sponsors like PBS and NPR have, and are entirely funded by listeners. Founded by a couple anarcho-pacifists back in the 1950-60s. Folks might be familiar with Democracy Now. Well, that's where the show got its start, and it still airs there. Source: over 1 year ago

He's so... bothered! If you examine the affairs of the Crown though, it's impossible not to be. The whitewashing began almost instantly. The /r/ontario subreddit posted a pinned megathread that would not allow any critical comments about QEII, the Crown, or the monarchy. Basically every MSM news org had bootlicking and fawning for the entire coverage so far, without any criticism. Thankfully democracynow.org had... Source: over 1 year ago

Hi HN! For my senior thesis in CS, I built an SMS-based application to make journalism more accessible. It works like this: 1) You text the topics you're interested in to my phone number. Every day, you'll receive a text with 5 headlines from The Associated Press (https://apnews.com/) related to those topics. 2) If you have questions about any of the current events the headlines describe, you just text them back.... - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

Observe how news media treat story like this. https://time.com - first page, main story, no photos https://www.reuters.com - no mention https://apnews.com - first page, 2nd block in list, no photos https://www.nytimes.com - second page, tiny block in list, no photos https://www.washingtonpost.com - second page, tiny block, no photos https://www.theguardian.com/world - no mention https://www.aljazeera.com - first... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

If someone links to an article on the Associated Press's site (apnews.com) I'm fine with that. Source: 5 months ago

Same thing on apnews.com. I am afraid it is widespread. Source: 6 months ago

IRAN-US PRISONER SWAPAP has reported that Iran and the US are poised to exchange prisoners after a figure of $6 Billion has been “unfrozen” and forwarded to Qatar who are acting as an “honest broker” to facilitate the asset swaps with the receipt of the funds confirmed by Nasser Kanaani a spokesman for the Iran Foreign Ministry before he went on to confirm the swap would take place later today. At this stage... Source: 8 months ago