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[–] [email protected] 0 points 14 hours ago

Mainstream news media (MSM) do not. I opted out of MSM years ago because they filter the news and misinform. Now, if I go to their sites or see a printed newspaper I only do the crosswords or look at the cartoons - NEVER, EVER read readers' comments or you'll go mad!

One podcast I enjoy is Media Storm - two young British women doing good, old-fashioned 'investigative journalism'. They cover the boat migrants stories very well indeed and never repeat dehumanising slanders against them. I use Android apps like 'Antenna Pod' (downloaded free from f-droid). It gives free access but sometimes you will hear adverts. I always use my vpn to locate myself in Japan or Cambodia i.e. a country where I cannot understand the language so that if I get ads they are incomprehensible or actually intetesting because from another culture.

I want to recommend the USA 'Cool Zone Media' podcasts too - they do a number of different podcasts. I especially enjoy 'Better Off Line', 'Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff' and 'Behind the Bastards'. Some of it discusses current affairs like political takes on migration, other programmes focus on history because this stuff is not new and we can learn lessons from reviewing what happened the last time we scapegoated 'migrants'.

All of these podcasters are creating educational, informative content and are often very funny (although sometimes the jokes are a bit off-colour so might not be everyone's cuppa tea - makes me chuckly 99% of the time).