News

[poliphilo]

What's the point of newspapers if they don't give you the news? Increasingly I find I'm turning to the Internet to learn what's really going on- as opposed to what the mouthpieces of the rich and powerful would like us to believe is going on. 

Take the Savile affair. There's a mass of information out there that the papers won't publish. The name of the top Tory child abuser is only a click away. 

Comments

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

The BBC News is supposed to be impartial, which means it relays the official version of everything. The standards of journalism are lamentable.

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

Here in the U.S., I use the BBC to get a version of news that is not American Corporate. I have become VERY frustrated at the fact that one cannot just get "news" anymore. The choice has become, "Do you want the Liberal version of the news? Or the Conservative version?" After 9/11, I mistakenly thought that CNN was "just news". Plus, I liked them because they were fast. Now I realize that the reason they were fast is that they would make things up to get it up there first, and they are almost as bad as Fox.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm told that Al_Jazeera is fairly reliable.

I like Channel 4 News. They pursue issues in some depth, but I don't suppose they're obtainable in the States.

[wyrmwwd.livejournal.com]

Turns out, apparently I can. Thank you!