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I'm curious as to where everyone gets their news from.

Here in the states, it's slim pickings. I'd venture to say that 90% of the news that's reported here is utter tripe. I have to piece together bits of truth from various sources to get an idea of what's really what. So every morning I read the New York Times, Cnn.com, AOL news, The Week (the closest I can find to a fairly accurate publication), and The Onion (for fun), and Snopes (for debunking).

And forget about the "news" that's reported on t.v. here. Broadcast news here has to be considered safe for family viewing, so the most you can hope for is reporting on the hippie plight to save the North American endangered wheatgrass (or some such nonsense, I don't follow hippie politics).

Any suggestions, spare change, or mathematical equations are greatly appreciated.

stick with the BBC, it has more integrity than most


www.bbc.co.uk

www.thisisessex.co.uk is produced by the company I work for. Avoid.

www.guardian.co.uk is better for a 'bigger picture' view of world affairs. Good international coverage but a slight tendancy to crawl up its own arse. Actually, an overwhelming tendancy to crawl up its own arse, but there you go.

Ananova
http://www.ananova.com/news/index.html

BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/

The Register (for IT stuff)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/

and there's a few independent sites out there that i have a look at every now and again for new & various "issues" that don't get much mainstream press coverage (www.indymedia.org, www.foe.org.uk, www.peta.org etc)

www.iol.co.za
www.news24.com
www.mg.co.za

all very South African/African.

I would add

www.702.co.za - independent radio.
for South African live on air radio - always very good international coverage of stories and active debate. Tim Modise in the morning is always refreshing to listen to.

www.safm.co.za
the radio arm of the national broadcaster and also very good comment from a variety of international and local sources - very accurate reporting - AM Live, After Eight Debate and Vuyo Mbuli in the mornings have many different local and international contributors.

In my humble opinion and being in the media monitoring business, I believe the majority of Sarf Effricans are VERY well informed of international stories and the comment we are exposed to is quite hard-arsed.

And of course if you REALLY want hard-arsed ... try Al Jazeera
http://www.arab2.com/radiotv/jazeera-tv.htm

Daily newspaper.

and..

www.dn.se

www.aftonbladet.se

and....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/

News?
I hear it from the guys at work.
the guy next to me brings a newspaper

No. I get sick from the TV-news over here. (it’s the way they bring it)
When I want to know something I’ll watch bbc and cnn.

James Blast wrote:stick with the BBC, it has more integrity than most


www.bbc.co.uk

@ James Blast

You *&*^&((* (*&^**& (&(*&^^ I Was Gonna Say That!

Can I also add my "Yahoo" home page thingy - has updated news headlines every hour

lucretia wrote:And of course if you REALLY want hard-arsed ... try Al Jazeera
http://www.arab2.com/radiotv/jazeera-tv.htm

Have you seen the documentary on Al Jazeera covering Bush's War called Control Room? Very harsh, but very good.

hallucienate wrote:

lucretia wrote:And of course if you REALLY want hard-arsed ... try Al Jazeera
http://www.arab2.com/radiotv/jazeera-tv.htm

Have you seen the documentary on Al Jazeera covering Bush's War called Control Room? Very harsh, but very good.

No I haven't seen that one - will have to check it out. They don't beat about the Bush (har har) them Al Jazeereans.

lucretia wrote:

hallucienate wrote:

lucretia wrote:And of course if you REALLY want hard-arsed ... try Al Jazeera
http://www.arab2.com/radiotv/jazeera-tv.htm

Have you seen the documentary on Al Jazeera covering Bush's War called Control Room? Very harsh, but very good.

No I haven't seen that one - will have to check it out. They don't beat about the Bush (har har) them Al Jazeereans.

I saw it at this festival earlier this year, well worth checking out.

And here is always good for latest news.

JB wrote:And here is always good for latest news.

Nothing scheduled at the moment. (like, "DUH"!)

Wow, I'm really liking the BBC site. Suprised and disappointed I hadn't stumbled upon it earlier.

Much thanks to Mr. Blast for the info, and also to Andy for the intention of passing the info along in a timely manner.

And, of course, thanks to everyone else for their recs.

you are most welcome CtrlAltDelete I find you can stumble upon many wonders via the BBC site