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Where do you get your news?

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Where do you get your news?

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I get bored a lot and like to read news sites but most of the ones I can find are extremely biased or just skim the surface of an issue and really don't tell me as much as I would like.
Lately I have been reading BBC News online, anyone have any suggestions?
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Reply #26 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
sailor who was tricked by police pretending to be a 14 year old girl online
Isn't that a horror-comedy? There are about 50 female sexual predators for every male, at least in the U.S. - yet no femme fatales ever get busted ... everyone just ignores it and says "it's ok" for females to abuse female children. Pitiful news reporting, just pitiful, pitiful pitiful, pitiful.
[ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pitiful ]

I like Voice of America News ... no commercials, no twists that I can see (yet). [http://www.voanews.com/]

It takes me "preponderance of evidence" for me to start and accept what the media tells me. and I never have total faith or certainty in anything they say.

Uhh ... isn't that why the big news corporations all say the same thing, basically? So that we will be completely overwhelmed psychologically?
Reply #27 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
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It takes me "preponderance of evidence" for me to start and accept what the media tells me. and I never have total faith or certainty in anything they say.

Uhh ... isn't that why the big news corporations all say the same thing, basically? So that we will be completely overwhelmed psychologically?


I am never overwhelmed and I think you give them too much credit.

Their propaganda is so obvious that it has no real value.
It only effects those without a sense of truth or conscience,

Marcus

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Reply #28 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I actually think Fox News is quite balanced in their reporting. O'Reilly and Hannity and Combs are fine shows, but their not passed off as news...rather news commentary.


Yeah, balanced if your a right-winged religous zealot. Fox news serves Cheney & Bush, they don't have a mind of their own.
Reply #29 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
There propaganda is so obvious that it has no real value.
It only effects those without a sense of truth or conscience
You are correct of course.

However in combination with poor educational institutions, economic stress, no moral authority, blatant capitalism ... and etc. "ad nauseam"(till it makes me wanna puke) ... the situation does have quite a few of the necessary ingredients for a horror-show of massive proportions. I hope you will forgive me for being paranoid.

Hey, have you seen any good horror-fliks from the "psychos in charge of the asylum" genre lately? De-Nile ain't just a river in Egypt anymore.  

P.S. - Forgot to add my endorsement for PBS News Hour (+++++)
Reply #30 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
News.google.com for the headline articles. There's something quite satisfying about 2,500 links to similar articles. I sometimes check foxnews and ccn. I often visit WSJ and NYT. And of course, the two local semi-rural online sites that cover my area.

I really enjoy the news alerts from google.
Reply #31 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

However in combination with poor educational institutions, economic stress, no moral authority, blatant capitalism ... and etc. "ad nauseam"(till it makes me wanna puke) ... the situation does have quite a few of the necessary ingredients for a horror-show of massive proportions. I hope you will forgive me for being paranoid.


if this turgid hopelessness of modern diarrhetic could let you utter such incoherent thoughts and still allow your mutterings to be almost poetic in their puerility

I could forgive such.

But ashamed as i must be, I cannot.

Marcus.

Reply #32 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Actually there's some pretty good news on Wikipedia too. Not headlines, but "this day in ..." years past, stuff like that.
Reply #33 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Forgot to add my endorsement for PBS News Hour


Their web site is way above average--you can get free transcripts of the broadcasts as well as on-demand streaming media.

I tried hard to get my civics students to tune in so they could compare how news works for them when they watch it vs. reading, or better yet watching and then reading when they made their current events notes.

Alas, one "virtue" of that show for me--the fact that you can pretty much ignore the screen and still follow almost everything--appears to be a serious drawback for viewers who think a news screen should be cluttered with busy, wildly unrelated elements. The KISS rule apparently died a quick, painful death in commercial TV news land...