Are you interested in veering away from so-called Mainstream Media? In 2017 a list was released by a non-partisan organization noting every news outlet and which way they leaned politically. I’m old enough to remember when (there was only local news on radio and TV; and no cable) news was not about politics all day long.

A few years ago, we started a free national newscast that was entitled “News that Matters”, because we felt like we were being inundated with news from DC. We might be back there again.

I have spoken to friends who are completely tuning out of any news. They don’t want to know what’s going on in Washington. I don’t blame them. Not all of us have the luxury of ignoring what is happening. I decided in December to start to look at different news sources, commentators and information outlets. It’s also important, in my opinion anyway, to read what the people say. Redditt is a great outlet for that as there are “subs” (think communities, pages, tabs or channels) for everything you can imagine.

Here are some other sources from historians with no lean politically one way or the other to podcasts and substacks that I’ve recently begun to follow myself (in no particular order):

MeidasTouch

Joe Walsh

Krassenstein

Amy Siskind

Rick Wilson

Robert Reich

Adam Kinzinger

Adam Parkhomenko

Letters from an American

BBC Global News

No Lie w/Brian Tyler Cohen

Politics Girl

Let me know who/what you like!