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Welcome to L’s Guide to OSINT Tools & Researching Independently
The goal of these guides is to teach you about the resources and techniques I use on a regular basis to find out the things I want to know as effectively and quickly as possible.
Today’s resource is a quick & easy one. It’s a website called 1stHeadlines.
Just as a disclaimer, they’re not paying me to say this. I really do use this resource every single day.
So What is 1stHeadlines?
1stHeadlines is an aggregate of all the major news network’s headlines in chronological order. I use this constantly throughout the day to check on what stories are breaking in the mainstream news cycle.
You might be thinking, “But L, I don’t pay attention to the mainstream media!” or “L, I already see headlines as they come out, I follow accounts on Twitter/Gab/Telegram that keep me up to speed!”
And hey, you’re right to be skeptical of legacy media narratives, especially in today’s toxic landscape, but you’d be surprised how many decent articles there are on topics you’re probably interested in that you rarely see. The reason you might not see them is even the best news aggregators on social media might not share everything, and social media personalities are often caught up in the daily narratives and topics that are popular for discussion.
And I don’t have to tell you that nightly news programs are biased towards a particular narrative. There’s plenty going on in the world that never gets mentioned, because something else is more flashy, gets more clicks and views, or it undermines a particular person or group, and media personalities want to avoid it.
What Am I Talking About?
Take this post I saw on Gab from Mark Dice earlier.
He mentions that the top 9 stories on Fox New’s homepage are all centered around the Gabby Petito story. And I’m not saying that story isn’t interesting or worth looking into, but there’s so much more going on than just that. A lot more.
Why Do I Like This Resource?
So let’s walk through some of the reasons I like 1stHeadlines and some of the features. It is devoid of bells and whistles—which is honestly something I prefer.
It also doesn’t favor any particular media outlet on the home page. What you see are the headlines as they come out in chronological order. There may be certain stories that come out at the same time about the same topic, but it’s not curated that way, it’s just how they come out.
Another thing I like about this site is it looks just as good on your desktop browser as it does on mobile. I will say that if you don’t use an ad-blocker, they can be a bit annoying. So keep one installed and active if you prefer.
The main page aggregates news as it comes out, but you can narrow down what you’re looking at with just a few steps. At the top of the site, you’ll see a banner that separates news into major categories: US & World, Conservative, Business, Health, Sports, and Technology.
Clicking any of those will change the feed to that subject.
In the sidebar, there are even more specified subjects. Under “General Topics, you’ll see categories such as Aviation, Crimes, Earthquakes, Education, Energy, etc.
There’s a politics header that features a few politicians that are often of media interest, such as Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Randy Paul, and more.
If sports are your thing, there’s a sports category breakdown, and below that you can see news broken down by country. And a little bit further down you can view news about certain states, and even further down you can view news centered around major cities in the US.
So that’s that. This was a short and easy one, but I really do use this resource every single day, and I think you’ll find it useful also.
Make sure to check out the other how-to guides in the index. This is the second one I’ve done so far, but I plan on adding more topics and resources just as quickly as I can put these together. I want to make sure I’m teaching you how to learn and research as effectively as you can, so we can break the cycle and change the way we learn and view things.
Hope you enjoyed it!
Talk soon,
L
Spencer Eden says
Really enjoy your research-tool content! Your info about archive.org was great and yesterday I discovered police reports there about Miriam Carey, the woman killed by Capitol Police back in October 2013. Reviewing the reports, I began to think Carey was being gang stalked and there’s probably more to that story we’ll never know.
But I have a question: Remember in December 2016 (or was it January 2017?) when the mainstream news networks were passed scripts about “unsubstantiated reports” regarding Trump and Russian prostitutes? I’m looking for those scripts where talking heads literally said “unsubstantiated news” or “unsubstantiated reports” etc. Is it possible these were scrubbed from archive.org? They were definitely scrubbed from YouTube. Any insight will be helpful.
You Rock!
Jill says
I have used OSINT for years and love it! The only thing I have to comment is every single outlet I was referred was MSM. It was all negative lies and really don’t want to be linked to those liars. It was depressing.
Mark Cameron says
Kicked off fb and twit so many times that a count lost, hacked by ms and goog on parler, gettr and gab enough to get the message loud and clear, and left in the dark cut up by throttling and other anomalies gd tech support dunno nothin bout, monetary prospects dim past twilight. Approaching midnight, now, it seems like the clock divided into PM vs AM was an ecclesiastical plot to divide and conquer time, among other things…
So, thank God for rhyme.