Dear #HiveMind, what do people think of Ground News? Keep meaning to look into it, the idea seems interesting.
Anybody using it? Anybody has strong opinions one way or another, preferably well-founded ones? :blobcatcoffee:
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@rysiek
Friend's friend runs a Polish news aggregator that lets you see multiple sources for each headline. There's no arbitrary political classification, just a quick summary and links. Might scratch the same itch for you: https://verita.news/
Friend's friend runs a Polish news aggregator that lets you see multiple sources for each headline. There's no arbitrary political classification, just a quick summary and links. Might scratch the same itch for you: https://verita.news/
@rysiek
One of the ad talking points I heard is about people talking past each other because they don't see the same news articles as the other side. So in that sense it's a great way to look inside other people's filter bubbles.
One of the ad talking points I heard is about people talking past each other because they don't see the same news articles as the other side. So in that sense it's a great way to look inside other people's filter bubbles.
Also, you can try out the service without paying for it by just visiting the site and seeing what it says about certain stories you know about. So I'd suggest just doing that. You might not get all the premium features but you can decide if you want that afterwards.
@rysiek The news summaries are “based on an AI-assisted analysis”, which I find stupid for a service specialising in journalism & media criticism¹.
The idea that some random company arbitrarily decides it has more journalistic competence than the thousands of actual educated and experienced journalists it aims to assess seems remarkably arrogant to me.
Ground News act as if every media outlet could easily be assigned one of several categories in the political spectrum from left to right. This necessarily implies the misleading assumption that
a) journalism is inherently biased (a view very popular in the US) and that
b) every newspaper offers only a small range of political opinions.
Ground News offer a solution far too simple to an issue far too complex. This is called populism.
@rysiek I like it, it has many nice features and the overlay between diffrent news outlets is great.
@rysiek I tried it for a moment and it has a very lazy classification which I guess would make sense if it only covered USA politics.
Where on the scale of Bernie-Democrat-Center-Republican-MAGA would you put everything published by TAZ or DW? (has to be one value per title, not per author or article)
@rysiek the opinions expressed will be presenting a heavy leftist bias. subscribe to Ground Toots in order to avoid it and get the full picture, and make sure to use our promo c
@rysiek
It is really useful for people whose world view is dominated by a simple categorization scheme (left, center, right), and who would like to remain trapped in it by being educated, day by day, article by article, how to frame each and every bit of news reporting.
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