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veen  ·  3895 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is there a way to stay informed (regarding news) and not be overwhelmed with hate/anger?

I quit the regular news a year or two ago. Why the hell would I start my day with tragedies and hyped stories? I'm glad I found De Correspondent, a Dutch high-quality online journalism platform that aims to be devoid of all that I despise about modern news.

    Rob wrote a manifesto, in which he promised that ‘De Correspondent will publish fresh stories on a daily basis, but it aims to uncover, explain and highlight deep-lying structures and long-term developments that powerfully shape our world, rather than reporting on the latest hype, scare, or breaking news story.’

The stuff that's really important news I'll hear about through people talking about it.





Meriadoc  ·  3895 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This sounds really interesting. Is there an English version? All I'm seeing on the english page is the story of the paper.

veen  ·  3895 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's Dutch only, so far they've only translated one article which was posted here a while ago.

zurich  ·  3853 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is a wonderful article, thank you for posting it. I envy your access to such a wonderful news source.

Perhaps Le Monde Diplomatique might be a source for English speakers. It has similarly thoughtful analysis.

veen  ·  3853 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There is no shortage of good English journalism, it's just quite dispersed and harder to find. Not many people know of LMd in America, for example.

sourcil  ·  3894 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well I guess that I will just have to learn Dutch then... or convince them to open a franchise in Canada.