I am liking msn way better than Apple News right now, because almost all the stories on Apple News are paywalled teasers to get you to sign up. But msn serves up lots of opinion articles like this one which I think is spot on.
Donald Trump campaigned against consensual reality and won. Every plank of his platform – from the economy to immigration to abortion – was based on easily provable lies.Despite Trump’s bombastic assertions to the contrary, inflation is down, growth is up, illegal border crossings are down...
www.alternet.org
Cripes dude, yes Apple News is a pay service. MSN is a "let any shit get flung at the wall" diarrhea outhouse of shit. Half of it is AI garbage now, and most of the rest is worthless dogshit. You can probably force it to recommend you some decent stuff, but frankly not sure how much of that even exists.
And I wouldn't even want them putting up with MSN's bullshit. Or Facebook or any of the news aggregators which are the primary reason why everything is turning to shit very quickly. They intentionally destroyed media, and when pushed back they pushed even further and their supposed attempts at rectifying it have actually just made it worse (basically it rewards all the clickbait bullshit, with those media brands then just putting out endless empty articles to get you to click), while they also made it even worse because of their AI slop shit, which is being used to prop up dead media entities (aka, ones that laid off their journalists and staff and now just have some dipshit tech bros regurgitate other places' articles using AI).
If you want good journalism, you're gonna have to pay for it. I'm not saying Apple News represents good journalism, and certainly you can pay some bad journalists. But even good journalists still rely on a "buddy network" where they basically just support people they know and frankly there's a lot of mediocre journalism being done that way.
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