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> The Guardian, Washington Post, and New York Times are likely the closest thing we have to news worth paying for

* Only if they allowed comments on articles that disagree with their own biases.

The Verge (Owned by Vox Media) is a great example of this.

> but I just get most of my news these days from social media sites like Reddit (and their linking directly to wire services in some cases), and find their non-trial prices rather high for very little ORIGINAL content.

The same newspaper publishers are also on social media sites as well, but link directly to their own articles and 'select' some social media accounts as sources to include in their articles that fits their narative and their own bias.

Reading multiple articles and sources from other publications will give you some good skeptisim in which either side might have missed or omitted some information in their own reporting.



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