I asked my mom if she watched the news today and she said she didn't. I told her something I heard on the news. She then told me she had just heard that talked about on the news.

Since this is Shitty Ask Lemmy, I must conclude that you are imagining the whole thing.

This is the stuff I pay for

Lawfare for Trump stuff

Peter Zeihan for what’s happening next year

I read/listen to as much of The Economist as I can get through each week

The free one that is key is What’s Going On with Shipping

The TV news in the US is beyond useless

It's possible she listens to the news. I listen to NPR and the Tagesschau (German news) daily.

Maybe it's an old person thing, but "watching" the news means sitting down and watching a network television program.

We don't consider online articles or Tiktok "watching the news"

Oh my dad is one of those. He watches The YouTube instead, which is somehow even worse for his brain and disposition.

i don't watch the news, i monitor the situation

RSS feeds and Lemmy, mostly.

It sounds like maybe she heard it on the radio.

The Economist

LOL

Listening and reading are both valid ways to aquire information. Often reading especially is significantly faster than watching something as well.

Or she heard it through the grapevine.

Personally I go through spurts of hyper engagement and non engagement so I wouldn't really say I pay attention to the news bc I'm not consistent or deliberate

They read it like the rest of us

Some of us just absorb the news thru osmosis

I watch breaking points on YouTube for my national news

She probably does that reading stuff