Confusing
How can Sky News be neutral and BBC be on the left? Are we on the same plane of existence?
4.53 out of 5
1,606 ratings in United Kingdom
How can Sky News be neutral and BBC be on the left? Are we on the same plane of existence?
Every piece of news has its own cookies you need to accept
If you want a true balanced view of the news and happenings world wide then Ground News is for you. Trying to compare the Mainstream Media and Ground News can’t be done, it’s not even chalk and cheese.
Certainly better than Apple News+, though given the terrible state of that app it is barely praise. The selling point of the app bias measurement is biased towards a right wing liberal central position. Do the curators hanker after a Clinton era past of trickle down and kindness driving the world? The subject matter is at least serious enough without headlines fighting for space with lifestyle advice from the stupid and privileged and celebrity gossip. However my biggest complaint is that too many 1st clicks are links to paywalls and content blocked because I live in a part of the world that legislates in favor of people's privacy rights. Really makes me question if this is worth the money.
Unsure what to make of this app. Good premise for showing different news outlet angles on stories and bringing stories I might not necessarily come across but not it’s functioning well on iOS (I’ve not paid a subscription while I work out if this is an app I want). Huge bugbear is the app notification that there are new Alerts with number in the little circle, which are quite regular during the day, but you go to the Alerts tab and there’s nothing there. Yet the alert count doesn’t go away. Only solution is a force quit each time for the app, then the promised alerts actually appear. Will get annoying quite quickly.
The service itself is superb and practically essential in the modern agenda-dominated media climate. No complaints in this aspect. That being said, the UI feels a bit dated/unintuitive and could use a slight makeover in my opinion. Many features that used to be freely available have also been steadily locked behind paid subscription, which is understandable and fair. However, my main qualm is the subtle yet noticeable increase in “creating a problem to sell a solution” techniques. E.g. Littering my “for you” news feed with Donald Trump topics and other such nonsense only to be told that I need to pay to filter this stuff, is kinda uncool. I can assure you that Donald is definitely NOT “for me” and having to pay to correct this is a bummer.
Really love the idea of this application and keep coming back to it to try and use it as my main source of news on my phone. However it’s simply not a nice user experience, the UI is awkward to navigate and the various feeds are clunky. Why not just provide one blended feed that I can filter if necessary. Also the widget is near useless. If the UI was modernised I would happily use this application.
Very impressed, recommend from Cyrus,
This app is excellent, with a good amount of functionality
But… I only get alerts about American news. I don’t live in America and I’m not from America. I think it’s great if you’re American.
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