[Question] News sites?

[ncts_dodge_man]

Anyone have a recommendation of a decent news aggregation site (I look for general US news, Wisconsin/Midwest news, and some sports (mostly racing) news)? Specifically I'm looking for text news - not all video news (can't stream videos at work).

I was using Yahoo but they've gotten even crappier than they were and were putting more and more videos up. I'm not saying that they were that good to begin with - I just was dealing with it since I'd been using them for a long time.

 

[strawman]

A lot of mobile sites send mostly text, though some appear to force their regular site on desktop browsers even if you use the mobile URL.

Here's an EU-centric list of text websites:

http://www.easylinks.eu/

Here's a news site with world news just below local news, in text format:

http://www.breakingnews.ie/archives/

I suspect that reuters and the AP news service have text versions, but they don't make them easy to find.

You can change your browser settings to pretend it's a mobile browser, and that should cut down on cruft on a lot of websites.[DOUBLEPOST=1454518470,1454518431][/DOUBLEPOST]http://www.howtogeek.com/139136/how-to-access-mobile-websites-using-your-desktop-browser/[DOUBLEPOST=1454518804][/DOUBLEPOST]Oh, apparently you can also find text only browser plugins for major browsers. Websites now support a wide array of accessibility features, and plugins like these take advantage of these new features to provide all the content with none of the fluff.

Check out your favorite browser's extension store, or do a google search "[browser] text only mode"

 

[drawn_inward]

Google news is fairly customizable. I use it to keep track of news in various places.

 

[sixpackshaker]

I am steaming mad at Yahoo. I've been using them for reading the news for basically 20 years now. Like Mr. Dodge_man said, they are pushing too many videos. If I wanted to watch TV! I'd watch CNN or ABC. I want to read aggregate news. And then troll the message boards.

Now Yahoo! is acting like Huffington Post, CLICK HERE FOR STORY, Now click "here" for the actual story on the actual news site that you don't trust.

 

[GasBandit]

In my feedly, I subscribe to breakingnews.com's RSS feed. It's got a fairly bad signal to noise ratio, but it's easy to sift through in a hurry based on just the headlines and the viewcounts. That covers national/international news.

Then, find your biggest local TV station's website and scroll down it looking for "RSS." For example, on WISN Milwaukee, they have http://www.wisn.com/rss . Also add THAT into your feedly (or whatever other RSS reader you use), and you got your local news covered. In fact, nothing says you can't add multiple RSS feeds from multiple sources, and categorize them "local" and "national" so they fall into different "folders." Then just scroll down the headlines looking for one that grabs you, click on it and go.

 

[PatrThom]

I agree that too many news (and "news") websites are all "click here to read the article" and then you get there and it's a quick sentence to basically say, "Yes, please load the video above to watch us talk about this subject."
Even worse are the places that talk about 12 different subjects in a 1hr video but then don't bother to say how long they talk, what order they're in, and basically force you to scrub through the entire video to try and find the part you actually want to hear.

--Patrick