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We’ve said this a hundred times before, but it’s always worth repeating: the world’s biggest news organisations aren’t reflecting the world. They are reflecting what’s dramatic, rare, and cheap enough to turn into a story. If you’re after an accurate picture of what’s getting worse, or what’s improving, you’ll need to look somewhere other than the... See more

Bristol Cable launches hybrid news and social networking app in bid to double membership

journalism.co.uk

Newsmast Foundation (@newsmastfoundation.org)

bsky.app

Newsmast x Bristol Cable - local news x community app

Asked, received: community calendar for SF’s Tenderloin

newsrelaynetwork.org

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niemanlab.org

news is basically engineered anxiety. it’s abstract, external, & almost always negative. nothing about it affirms your agency or intimacy. but people cling to it because it’s a cheap way to feel informed, like they’re plugged into the world. tldr: reading most news is horrible for you.

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Americans no longer have an accurate sense of their own society. For example, a few years ago, a poll showed that Americans, on average, think Muslims are seventeen times as large a portion of the U.S. population as they actually are. Another poll showed that most Americans think a majority of immigrants are in the country illegally (in fact, 77%... See more

Richard Young mailchi.mp

News Relay Network

newsrelaynetwork.org

“a newsroom that empowers its audience” - in the Tenderloin, SF, CA