US Americans, how do you follow national news?

RSS feed from a variety of reliable news sources
- Such as?

None of the parties align with my views and I'm tired of pretending that they do. So I don't.
- Understandable. What about local news?
  
  I use a Scanner Radio (Android) app for "emergency" events. Duno if iPhone has an app like it.
  For actual news local radio or OTA but I rarely tune in.
  This methodology came about after being annoyed stressed out and fed up with the way things are going. Everyone blames they want change but 1 out of 3.35 milare willing to attempt to make a change. Not fully saying violence is the way but it sure seems like it worked for the rich and powerful.

Mostly the wire services (Reuters, AP) and some reputable sources that don't try to spin things one way or another (NPR, BBC, ProPublica)

Lemmy, NPR, and occasionally CNN/AP/Reuters/whatever if I need to look something up I guess.
Mostly Lemmy and NPR.

Just whatever makes it on fedi, fark, and the news here in Japan. I do occasionally watch local/regional US news where my family live if something is going on (hurricanes or such for example).

I've given up on national news post election. I used to read the Washington post as well as the daily ABC podcast. Post election its just a bummer. I will probably go back to keeping informed eventually but I'm not there yet.

At this point, lemmy and a group chat of terminally online friends from college

I've been using Ground News. But it's been so depressing I'm considering checkout out for a bit.
- Good to see you here!
- With all the stuff recently I've been thinking similarly about Lemmy. It's a bit "much".
  On the bright side, I've been meaning to read a book for months and that finally gave me the impetus to start:-). I really enjoy how calming that is, as opposed to continual doomscrolling.
  
  I've found myself enjoying other things more because of it.

Reuters, AP News, and some national tv broadcasts. I try to stay away from those with agendas but you know…

I really don't, anymore.
Maybe I'll get hints of something from my contacts or my partner, but that's indirect.

TikTok for the initial what's going on then various different reputable (the little I can find) news sites.
Yes I get news from tiktok because they don't do as much propaganda bullshit other social media sites do lik blocking certain subjects because they don't like it.
- I don't use tiktok. I thought it was just vertical videos of people doing stuff. How does it present news?
  
  It is but a lot of times people find something out from places not the American news has, for instance people from other countries knowing things the American news don't really say.
  It has anything and everything it seems like, really good at finding others who are like me, very diverse and different kinda people on there. Yes bad people obviously, but that's the Internet in general.
  People talk about things on there. Give there personal opinions and thoughts on stuff.
- That's an interesting perspective - I hear that what's bad about it is more the data tracking, but that it delivers on content so people like it. How does it compare to YouTube in terms of blocking content, do you happen to know?
  
  I don't really know that much about what YouTube blocks. All I know is I get a shit ton .ore lgbt and neurodivergent people on TikTok randomly then I ever do on YouTube. I get my diversity and different people. YouTube just seems like it's all click bait shit I can't handle. "Top ten ***" kinda stuff. And when I tried YouTube shorts I couldn't find anything relatable or wanting. And they all seemed very just generic.
- because they don't do as much propaganda bullshit other social media sites do
  Oh boy...

4chan, lemmy, and discord. Yes, I know I'm a moron.

I don't, and I'm happier for it. If something major happens, I'll hear about it, despite all of the walls I've put up to hide from the news. I followed the news back when it was a reputable medium, but now it's just 24 hours per day of bullshit.