Hello, I may be stepping on a land mine here, so lets keep the conversation peaceful. What are your thoughts on what you see in the news? Specifically, do you trust that you are getting the full picture of what is going on in the world. Or do you think that the media is controlled by someone/something(like a goverment) and they only allow news that fits their own agenda?
For serious, meiningful stories that intrest me, I allways check multiple sources, otherwise I trust the BBC for my everyday news. I wont take anything to my head though.
Televised news is my least-appreciated medium unless it were a reliable local channel (e.g.: CityPulse), which don't really talk much about news as they do fun stuff. Newspapers are 50/50, in my opinion, as long as it's local. I don't personally think Canada has some type of proxy in place to control the news in the country; our government is sometimes too dim-witted to pull something like that off compared to the U.K. and U.S, and I'm happy with that. Al Jazeera is one of the better news providers out there, although far too Middle-East-centric for my preference.
Are you suggesting that the UK news is censored? Agree on the Al Jaz being pretty good. A lot of people (stupid, stupid people) write it off as being news for terrorists or some such rubbish, but I've found it to be pretty decent really.
I've stopped watchi9ng/reading the news tbh. If there's anything I really need to know about, chances are I'll hear about it from somebody if it's important.
I don't mean to say the UK is censored, but it is very capable of it and as much as CNN; whereas Canada is a total political flop anyway. I just get a dark type of back-door vibe of UK governing--the societal infrastructure seems highly centric around a handful of hubs, if you know what I mean--that's all. Don't you feel it? I don't live in the UK, but that eventual totalitarianism is always brooding at the back of my mind.
I don't trust anything from newscorp, bunch of evil bastards. I generally trust the BBC, but even then they do like the scare stories a lot. The internet is generally where I check my news, since it's unbiased and can be checked against millions of other identical (maybe?) new stories.
BBC is my first source, since it came pre-bookmarked with Firefox. I used to leave it there, but I have since periodically checked it, and BBC seems like a fairly reliable source. I don't care much for local news, and I tend to check broader news anyways, so BBC World is great. As for specific stories, I like Google News as it searches multiple sources, reducing bias, and also as a great filter to find the stories I'm interested in.
I watch multiple sources. I have ABC News (Govt owned and mostly unbiased) on my Google page. I also really enjoy programs like Media Watch which go through all the various media (TV/radio/newspapers) and show where misinformation is being spread. I've even seem them report the ABC for being wrong.
