Author Topic: How do you keep up with current affairs/culture?  (Read 10725 times)

Genosse Brymbo

  • Ostalgist
Re: How do you keep up with current affairs/culture?
« Reply #75 on: 20 January, 2019, 12:55:16 pm »
In order of frequency:

Print: der Spiegel, Kindle edition at a rate of one copy every two weeks, not quite enough to justify a subscription
TV: mdr AKTUELL
TV: rbb regional news
TV: about 20 other german free-to-air satellite TV channels
TV: Al Jazeera English
TV: BBC News 24, whatever's showing in the 5 minute period before the 5-min-before-the-hour weather
Print: Tabloid headlines, viewed on working days when I pass by the newpaper stand to collect my lunch in Sainsbury's, Friar Street, Reading
Online: YACF, I lurk in POBI and then follow up some of the themes in the WWW
Print: New Scientist and the Economist, I always take a copy of each on holiday.  Nowadays that's when I can't take the Kindle, so about once per year
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Ruthie

  • Her Majester
Re: How do you keep up with current affairs/culture?
« Reply #76 on: 21 November, 2019, 08:48:22 pm »
I’m still finding The Big Issue is the nearest thing I can find to proper journalism. It’s just excellent.
Milk please, no sugar.

Re: How do you keep up with current affairs/culture?
« Reply #77 on: 22 November, 2019, 08:50:59 am »
Late to this but...
Here, and work politics chat.

I read quite a lot of twitter. Mostly it's people I agree with. Mostly it's little more than a witty headline, but gives pointers to the presence of an interesting story. It also lets me know when someone awful has done something, without having to read it in the original. There's also voices in my feed that are underrepresented in big org British media: geeks, EU citizens, women, trans people etc. But it takes some work to make that my experience.

I look at BBC news online, but with a sceptical eye on the politics.
We get a Guardian / Observer / i about one weekend in two.
FT online is quite good, but I've yet to put my hand in my pocket.

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T42

  • Apprentice geezer
Re: How do you keep up with current affairs/culture?
« Reply #78 on: 22 November, 2019, 09:28:25 am »
France Info, Graun, NYT, and POBI for the funny bits and the sideshow going on across the Channel.
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Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: How do you keep up with current affairs/culture?
« Reply #79 on: 22 November, 2019, 04:28:58 pm »
I’m still finding The Big Issue is the nearest thing I can find to proper journalism. It’s just excellent.
Interesting. I haven't read it for years, maybe I'll give it a try.
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Kim

  • Timelord
    • Fediverse
Re: How do you keep up with current affairs/culture?
« Reply #80 on: 22 November, 2019, 04:30:22 pm »
Since this thread began, the more pertinent question would seem to be "How do you avoid current affairs/culture?"

Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: How do you keep up with current affairs/culture?
« Reply #81 on: 22 November, 2019, 04:36:15 pm »
Or "How do avoid politicised news and find journalism and culture?"
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Re: How do you keep up with current affairs/culture?
« Reply #82 on: 22 November, 2019, 08:11:16 pm »
Avoiding politics...

On Twitter I have three accounts: work, pleasure (between_beyond) and ranting (perpetualdan). It isn't perfect but it helps me not be permanently cross.

Here, leave POBI alone.

On paper, magazines that aren't current affairs.

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