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Why I Listen to Alternative News
By alternative, I mean foreign sources like Al Jazeera, WION, and DW (German news source)
I stopped listening to American news over a decade ago. I used to listen to NPR in the morning. I liked BBC World News.
However, I’d stopped watching TV news ever since the “All OJ, all the time” days. I just got sick of the non-stop coverage of one story.
This is the problem with American news — it’s sensationalist and parochial. If you want to know what is going on in the wider world, American news is not the place to look.
As someone who is fighting cancer, I try to avoid too much news these days. Staying in a happy place is where I need to be, and, let’s face it, the news is very seldom a happy place.
However, I do like to check in for 20–30 minutes once a day.
When I do, I never go with an American news source. It’s going to be biased and lacking in depth.
Meanwhile, WION has become my new favorite source of news. While I got hooked on it due to one particular news commentator, Palki Sharma, even now that she’s left, I find the commentary quite good.
The news coverage is not America-centric. Today, for example, there was coverage of the ongoing conflict in…
