Hey. I'm an american and i want to get news. I know CNN and FOX and all the crap that american's typicaly get is biased garbage. I dont trust BBC that much. What are some realiable new sources that i can look too.
I'm interested in both American news sources and world new sources.
everyone hates them and they have a journalist from every organisation, BBC, FOX, CNN etc
the only thing is they look at everything with a worldly prespective so Vtech wasn't importnant so they covered other events in the world. so doubt you'll see national news much.
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Anonymous2008-03-02 17:42
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Anonymous2008-03-03 5:01
Does the US have a news station that isn't just morbid fascination with two or three of the 16000 murders it gets every year? That's not news. It's not even a good as murder news since the focus is so narrow on the vast landscape of murder that could be covered. Some stations need to be renamed Murder Talk Network.
If you really want to see EVERY story you can just go to google news.
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Anonymous2008-04-03 17:48
I like BBC too, but for US news, try PBS Newshour. They tend to be fair imho
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Anonymous2008-04-03 18:04
PBS!?!? PBS?!?
You have got to be delusional!
PBS has always been a bastion of liberalism.
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Anonymous2008-04-03 18:34
Have you watched the Newshour? Its pretty fair and balanced in its reporting.
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Anonymous2008-04-03 18:37
Yeah, ok, you keep believing that...
By the way, I have some carbon credits you might be interested in purchasing..
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Anonymous2008-04-05 2:35
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You never watched, did you. It's the least showbizzy news available nationally. How about Nightly Business Report on PBS, is that "liberal" too? US politics is assfuckingly retarded.
Oh I see, they have science shows like Nova, I forgot that in the US, science is a "liberal" thing and therefore suspect.
BBC is state owned media. News hour with jim is bankrolled by chevron even though they are "public". Remember kids, news corporations are still news CORPORATIONS with their #1 aim is to make $$ and not inform you.
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Anonymous2008-06-09 21:00
News4VIP is all you need.
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Anonymous2008-06-10 19:02
You want NEWSHOUR dammit Jim Lehrer is the only truth and substance this country has ever known brought to you by viewers like you much like buddah when all was naught and nothing but oj simpson was being made into froofy drinks he forced the grain alcohol of information down the throat of the world.
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Anonymous2008-06-11 0:15
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Yes, BBC is state-owned. It is NOT, however, supposed to be state-controlled. They are forbidden by their charter from being politically influenced, though how meaningful that is in practical operation is questionable. It is paid for by license fees paid for by television and radio owners.
PBS is non-profit corporation which receives public funding (though very little nowadays) as well as tax-deductible donations from many sources, including corporate interests and charitable foundations (which of course have their own agendas). NPR is the same.
In these cases the primary aim is NOT "to make $$," as you put it. Obviously, none is free from influence, but they all provide far better (more comprehensive, at least) news coverage than the major U.S. networks and CNN do.
Other good source include some (mostly foreign) newspapers. I personally like The Guardian and the Daily Mail. Although they each have an editorial bias (all sources do, after all, and at least papers tend to be honest about it), I find that you can get a good perspective on issues if you read enough of them and don't restrict yourself to those of a single viewpoint. The Christian Science Monitor seems to be one of the better domestic papers (its ownership notwithstanding).
The major domestic media (both broadcast and print), PBS and NPR aside, nearly all have a problem with regard to giving too much focus to trivial domestic stories and not enough to important international stories. By way of example, I was really infuriated in the immediate aftermath of the Wenchuan earthquake that CNN was more interested in covering not only MORE mindless blather about the Democratic primary race, but also fluff pieces such as one about prom fashions, than in covering the quake (I was especially infuriated, because of my personal interest in the story: worry for my cousin, who is visiting southwestern China, though thankfully not in the immediate vicinity of the quake, I eventually determined). The only domestic media outlet which gave much coverage at all to the situation before evening was NPR.
If you are looking for a source entirely free of bias, you won't find it, because it doesn't exist. You have to learn to take that into account, think critically, and make up your mind accordingly (preferably after reading, listening to, and/or watching accounts from multiple viewpoints), rather than just accepting whatever is relayed at face value. That's what separates men from sheep.
In b4 tl;dr
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Anonymous2008-06-11 1:19
nancy grace
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Anonymous2008-06-11 8:15
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you really are stupid arent you? Havent you seen the BBC report the Iraq war? When have they mentioned the fact that 1.2 million people have been killed by the invasion? If the BBC was objective it would mentioned that.
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I didn't SAY the BBC was entirely objective: in fact I said NO ONE IS ENTIRELY OBJECTIVE. Anyone who thinks that they have found, or can find, an objective source is a naïf.
What I said, which you would know if you'd paid attention, was that BBC is a better source than the major domestic media. While their coverage of the Iraq war has been wanting (I don't dispute this), it's been no more so than most of the domestic media coverage (the American networks were just as guilty of warmongering as the BBC), and I give them credit for covering stories that the American media haven't been covering AT ALL (like the civil war in Sri Lanka). If you want ALL the facts, you are going to have to get them from a variety of sources with conflicting biases. It's the only way to get the whole story. If you think you've found a single website that can save you the trouble of being well-informed and thinking for yourself, then you are an imbecile.
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Anonymous2008-06-12 1:22
You best bet is to watch a verity of sources and then form your own opinion.
The best thing you could do is learn different languages look to them all but that makes me sound like a hypocrite, so for American news id suggest; http://www.theonion.com
An expert on terrorism says the Saudi national who was the original “person of interest” in connection with Monday’s Boston Marathon bombing is going to be deported from the U.S. next week.
The foreign student from Revere, Mass., is identified as 20-year-old Abdul Rahman Ali Alharbi.
THE ONION news figured it out and isn't blaming the bombing victims. Also what kind of nationalist racism jokes can we make about a nationality that America knows nothing about? I'm not sure if this is a good or a bad thing. In fact, the criminal responsible has such a long and confusing name that most news stations identify him as "Suspect 1/2 seen wearing a hat".
as long as its not some left wing media it would work!
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Anonymous2013-04-25 18:21
>>58
Are you from ground control? Slipping in the dark in a most peculiar way?
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Anonymous2013-04-25 18:38
Space Oddity - David Bowie talks of a man that doesn't take drugs and lose connection with the real world...
Ground control to major Tom
Ground control to major Tom
Take your protein pills and put your helmet on
(Ten) Ground control (Nine) to major Tom (Eight)
(Seven, six) Commencing countdown (Five), engines on (Four)
(Three, two) Check ignition (One) and may gods (Blastoff) love be with you
This is ground control to major Tom, you've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear
Now it's time to leave the capsule if you dare
This is major Tom to ground control, I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today
Here am I floatin' 'round my tin can far above the world
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do
Though I'm past one hundred thousand miles, I'm feeling very still
And I think my spaceship knows which way to go
Tell my wife I love her very much, she knows
Ground control to major Tom, your circuits dead, there's something wrong
Can you hear me, major Tom?
Can you hear me, major Tom?
Can you hear me, major Tom?
Can you...
Here am I sitting in my tin can far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue and there's nothing I can do
Space Oddity is not about drugs, it was simply a space themed song written after Bowie watched 2001: A Space Odyssey. Sorry, just tired of people peddling this absolutely false old rumor. Besides, any real Bowie buff knows Major Tom didn't turn to drugs until after he got back.
This place would be nice if it were not all trolls.
Here is some news, it's stale, but I hear there was a protest in Beijing about some girl getting raped and jumping out of the window to commit suicide. Caused a whole march and everything.
Teach a man to fish, and you just eliminated your customer base idiot. Their ignorance was your job security as a restaurant owner ! Now you have to face a foreclosure! Are you proud of yourself? Are you?
Piece of shit.
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Justin Beiber's concert series in Russia cancelled due to alleged homosexuality which is illegal in Russia.
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I would argue there is no good news source. I've found the best way to consume news is by understanding every sources bias. Democracy Now is a great way to understand the left (with all their flaws and aspirations). Ex Trayvon Martin is a hero on that show and I think its presumptious as hell to think you know one way or another what the hell happened.
Reuters and the Guardian deliver classic confrontational journalism but it has plenty of flaws.
An AP news feed is always a great place to start as that tends to be pretty middle of the line (not that exists).
Hell I will occasionally watch Fox just to know what a sect of the Republican party is thinking.
Whats frustrating about something like CNN is the notion that they are objective, they have stockholders and interests of their own. You should seek out media who are honest about their biases which alot of mainstream American media pretends they dont have.