The problem being that I don't want to read individual newspapers. There are pretty much no newspapers where I read enough of them to justify subscriptions. But there are dozens of newspapers where I read an article or two per month
Consider changing your habits. I felt this way before, too. Then I subscribed to the Washington Post and New York Times and weaned myself off news aggregators and CNN.COM, in favor of just scanning the front pages of both. I am blown away by how much better informed I am on most stories than I was before.
Something that was easy for me to miss before was that the selection of stories on aggregator sites is itself a form of editorial control. The algorithmic aggregators do a pretty terrible job; the popular vote aggregators... yikes. If you want to read a couple of articles from a lot of different sources, you're going to need to pay somebody to "design the menu" for you.
The major newspapers have spent the last century working on that problem, and I'm not sure anyone's really giving them a run for their money. Consider an NYT, WaPo, or WSJ subscription.
Consider changing your habits. I felt this way before, too. Then I subscribed to the Washington Post and New York Times and weaned myself off news aggregators and CNN.COM, in favor of just scanning the front pages of both. I am blown away by how much better informed I am on most stories than I was before.
Something that was easy for me to miss before was that the selection of stories on aggregator sites is itself a form of editorial control. The algorithmic aggregators do a pretty terrible job; the popular vote aggregators... yikes. If you want to read a couple of articles from a lot of different sources, you're going to need to pay somebody to "design the menu" for you.
The major newspapers have spent the last century working on that problem, and I'm not sure anyone's really giving them a run for their money. Consider an NYT, WaPo, or WSJ subscription.