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Puck
The Texan
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 Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:36 pm Global News Sources |
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I was wondering if any of you that live outside the United States could tell me where you get your news from? And if you had a link to any websites that you get news from, that would be interesting too. I want to see what people outside the US are getting (besides FoxNews, and CNN). Thanks for any help.
-Kevin
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Kyre
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Republican_Man
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| Sat Jan 15, 2005 10:50 pm |
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| Kyre wrote: | | www.bbc.co.uk |
Bias. http://www.bbcwatch.com/
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Kyre
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| Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:02 pm |
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Do you mind? As far as I'm aware, trolling is not what was asked of by the original poster.
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Puck
The Texan
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| Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:05 pm |
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I don't care how biased/un-biased it is. I just want to see where other people are getting there news, to kinda see if it might effect the way they see things. Plus I think it would just be good to get some new sources  . Thanks Kyre. 
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Hitchhiker
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| Sat Jan 15, 2005 11:08 pm |
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My dad set our homepage to CANOE, which is a division of Netgraphe, Inc. So every time I open up my browser, I'm bombarded with the latest headlines, and I tend to read a few articles once and a while.
I watch and click CBC occasionally, but not that often. Then there's always those invariably inaccurate comedy shows on Friday night. 
I also Google a lot of stuff.
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CJ Cregg
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Republican_Man
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| Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:03 pm |
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| JanewayIsHott wrote: | | I don't care how biased/un-biased it is. I just want to see where other people are getting there news, to kinda see if it might effect the way they see things. Plus I think it would just be good to get some new sources . Thanks Kyre. |
Yes, I know. And that's my point. You are looking to see how it affects their views, and that was my point.
| Hitchhiker wrote: | My dad set our homepage to CANOE, which is a division of Netgraphe, Inc. So every time I open up my browser, I'm bombarded with the latest headlines, and I tend to read a few articles once and a while.
I watch and click CBC occasionally, but not that often. Then there's always those invariably inaccurate comedy shows on Friday night.
I also Google a lot of stuff. |
Bias too (CBC, don't think Google is)
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Hitchhiker
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| Sun Jan 16, 2005 1:14 pm |
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Oh, I know it's biased, you don't have to bother pointing that out. CBC is on the government payroll after all (not that anyone really watches it though, so you don't have to worry). And CANOE is owned by a Quebec company  However I find that a lot of the news articles on CANOE are short enough to contain little opinionated bias. I don't know if they slant the facts because I've been brainwashed by them.
And Google can't be biased since it's just a portal . . . unless they deliberately program their search engine to block out left-wing or right-wing content (depending on the bias) but I doubt they do. Way too much trouble.
I love Google.
However, those sources don't really affect my views, they're just where I get news from. I form a lot of my opinions from the following sources, none of which are accredited news organizations in any way, and most likely have enough bias amongst them to get a discount on Air Canada
-Douglas Adams
-Scott Adams
-Frank Herbert
-Ursula K. LeGuin
-Teachers
-Parents
-Royal Canadian Air Farce
-This Hour Has 22 Minutes
-Space: The Imagination Station
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lionhead
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hm,. world news Source.
How about, www.worldnews.com ?
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Kyre
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| Sun Jan 16, 2005 11:22 pm |
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| Republican_Man wrote: | | JanewayIsHott wrote: | | I don't care how biased/un-biased it is. |
Yes, I know. |
Then why bother posting?
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Republican_Man
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| Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:25 am |
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| Kyre wrote: | | Republican_Man wrote: | | JanewayIsHott wrote: | | I don't care how biased/un-biased it is. |
Yes, I know. |
Then why bother posting? |
Your answer, which I already stated.
| JanewayIsHott wrote: | | I just want to see where other people are getting there news, to kinda see if it might effect the way they see things. |
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IntrepidIsMe
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I'm sure you could find bias in every news source, if you went looking for it.
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Republican_Man
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| Mon Jan 17, 2005 1:30 am |
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| IntrepidIsMe wrote: | | I'm sure you could find bias in every news source, if you went looking for it. |
Sure, except for C-SPAN, but it tends to be that the majority of news sources are Liberal biased.
You know, this I like about President Bush: he knows that the media hates him, etc. I watched a special pre-Ignaugural presentation about President Bush on FOX News tonight...they showed his feelings toward the media, and in that they showed President Bush walking in front of the media holding up former CBS News employee Bernard Goldberg's book "Bias" in a CLEAR way for the media to see. (The book alledges left-wing media bias) but was great!
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Kyre
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| Mon Jan 17, 2005 3:02 am |
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| Republican_Man wrote: | | Kyre wrote: | | Republican_Man wrote: | | JanewayIsHott wrote: | | I don't care how biased/un-biased it is. |
Yes, I know. |
Then why bother posting? |
Your answer, which I already stated.
| JanewayIsHott wrote: | | I just want to see where other people are getting there news, to kinda see if it might effect the way they see things. |
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No, answer me this. What good did your first post do? What did it achieve, when viewed against the aims of the thread.
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lionhead
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| Mon Jan 17, 2005 7:36 am |
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Wow, i guess this topic brings out the worst in everybody too.
RM and Kyre, you have any idea what you are arguing about? Its nonsense.
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Pah-Wraith
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