Ich finde das Konzept von Groundnews.com interessant, zeigt verschiedene Seiten des Nachrichtenspektrums rund um Themen. Aber ich habe das Gefühl, dass der Inhalt (sehr) auf die USA ausgerichtet ist und es praktisch keine lokalen belgischen Nachrichtenquellen gibt.
Ich habe mich gefragt, ob jemand
- Hat ein kostenpflichtiges Abonnement und findet es für alles andere als US-amerikanische Nachrichten wertvoll (davon bekomme ich natürlich genug).
- Oder ob es andere ähnliche Plattformen gibt, die einen stärker eurozentrischen oder zumindest ausgewogeneren Feed haben. Irgendwelche Hinweise (und Erfahrungen?)
- Wenn ich nicht weiterkomme und auf eigene Faust verschiedene Quellen lese und vergleiche.
(Ich habe mich für News-Flair entschieden, obwohl das eigentlich keine Neuigkeit ist, fand ich es passend, bei Bedarf werde ich es gerne anpassen
Edit: nach dem Beitrag des Automoderators angepasst, sorry)
Is Ground News worth it as a Belgian?
byu/Anleifr85 inbelgium
Von Anleifr85
13 Kommentare
The thing is, in the EU thats kinda less required than in the US. In the US there is more of an us vs them mentality when it comes to the political spectrum, which the news reflects, so multiple sources is pretty important there. While in the EU that mentality does exist, it’s not that common and most news is in a specific style (mostly neutral, satire, stuff like that)
I mean.
Most newspapers or website in Belgium are center to right.
A few center left.
Almost all of them pro capitalism and pro Europe.
No anticapitalistic ones 🥲
At least for the french ones.
Always take a big big grain of salt to what les échos or la libre says about taxes and economics. Those buffoons are profoundly néolibéral 😂
I don’t know if it’s that worth it, but the way they’re out there sponsoring a gazillion content creators makes me highly suspicious of the site. The Raid Shadow Legends for people with a slight political interest, if you will.
I wouldn’t, for the simple reason that it markets itself as a part of the solution while actually being part of the problem.
They very much lean into the us vs. them, grading everything in left vs. right, polarization (especially on the internet) is one of the main struggles of our generation. This ain’t the solution, I see value in getting news from different sources, but acting like every piece of writing can neatly fit on a left to right line with some ‚centre‘ in the middle is… not helpful.
I had a paid subscription but stopped using it as most of the news that was presented to me was not newsworthy, and for over 90% of the articles it didn’t really matter if it was „left-leaning“ or „right-leaning“ (think „New restaurant opening in your city!“ type news).
News being propaganda is more a US problem.
I pay for the premium and I quite like it. Get world headlines and they are translated to your language.
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i have a paid subscription and honestly don’t use it that much, might actually cancel it after this wake-up call. It’s coverage of European news isn’t that great and comes from weird ass sources, so, it’s an American product mostly
News in the USA
– Channel Left: Trump bad, Democrats top, no nuance
– Channel right: Trump great, Democrats are terrorists, no nuance
– center media: barely exists
News in Belgium:
– State funded channel: Criticizes politicians from all over the spectrum
– Commercial channel: Pretty much does the same
I don’t see the benefit of groundnews here?
A fellow helldiver from the US has ground news and it is really benificial because he can read a news article and then know where it came from.
But believe it or not….Belgian media is far far less biased. It is slop. But getting Ground news for this country is not needed.
Ground news is not a news site per se. They take news articles and show what their source is.
By this day and age, it is possible to build your own feed from different sources. I have FB and YT with subscriptions to non American news sources. Also getting by emails notification.
Best advice I have seen from long time professional journalist – subscribe to local news. This is how I’m getting news about Belgium, without knowing local languages. I do same for another two countries where I was resident before coming to Belgium.
Those are in languages I know, for Belgium news I try to understand as is first and the rest is by Google translation.
Service you proved as link just does the same.
Anything pushed by YouTube creator isn’t worth it. Install SponsorBlock so you don’t have to see that bullshit ever again
I don’t give a shit what Nazis have to say, not sure why I need ground news