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04-27-2014, 08:35 PM
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Freedom of the press? pfffft I would also go as far as saying that in today's world trying to differentiate between left wing/right wing is useless. In the United States they are on the same team now, and their job is only to put on a show for the American people [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] Think of the US government as pro-wrestling; they go out and bash eachother in front of the people and then go back to the same locker room and pat eachother on the back at the end of the day.
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04-27-2014, 08:49 PM
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As an American myself I have to say most American news outlets are trash now. Even those without significant bias (such as CNN, maybe) have sloppy journalism, poor writing, and an overabundance of sensationalist articles. It's pretty obvious that interns are writing a lot of the articles (spelling errors, copy and pastes from elsewhere, repeated information, etc.).
If you really want mostly un-biased news with an international outlook, I would read BBC or Al-Jazeera. If you want high-quality journalism and are willing to pay, then I'd recommend The Economist, which is politically moderate - a bit liberal-leaning by US standards, but fairly conservative by European standards (mostly due to their pro-business/pro-free market/small government outlook). | ||
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04-27-2014, 09:04 PM
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Cable news is useless, IMO. Local network news is decent. BBC is good, but slightly slanted to the left. Its pretty pathetic though that cable news like CNN, Fox, and MSNBC keep their news mostly in the US with a few external stories here and there. You'd swear nothing happens in the rest of the world according to these three unless it is to cement the need for a smaller/bigger government. They all blow.
Slightly OT, but the podcast called "Left, Right and Center" is decent for commentary on the week's big topics. I try to find balanced news commentary and podcasts, but its difficult to find a conservative one that isn't blatenly hateful or a liberal one that doesn't mock everyone else that disagrees. Al-jazeera America is pretty good.
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07-05-2014, 03:32 PM
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Kinda off topic a bit but to really understand the media you need to read Manufacturing Consent, seminal work written in 1988 (i think). Not inaccessible reading, and still very relevant.
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07-05-2014, 03:50 PM
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07-05-2014, 03:55 PM
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04-27-2014, 05:41 PM
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I like zerohedge. They have a bit of a bias toward the belief that society as we know it is ending soon. But they have lots of good articles.
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04-27-2014, 07:22 PM
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news companies are in business to make money. what y'all thinking? pbs, npr, and bbc are the closest to non-biased that you can get unless you want to spend 10hrs a day reading foreign and domestic news to get perspective on all sides of an event.
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