Where do you go for news and why?
Discussion
NerveAgent said:
I tend to look at each “side”, say the Guardian and the Telegraph. Then assume the truth is somewhere in the middle.
I do the television version of this. With FreeSat you can catch same news from different countries and see the different bias on it - France, RT, CNN, CNBC, Sky and BBC.I also have local Echo subscription where they get articles from Press Association.
NerveAgent said:
I tend to look at each “side”, say the Guardian and the Telegraph. Then assume the truth is somewhere in the middle.
I think this is the only sensible way to go.
Expose yourself to a variety of outlets and you’ll probably end up with a balanced view of what’s going on. Limiting yourself to a single point will only have you ending up viewing or reading from an outlet that matches your own bias and then end up believing what they say as Gospel when it could be anything but.
Zetec-S said:
Mainly the BBC website... I'll get flack for this but I don't find it overly biased. Maybe a little too focused on "wokeness" and Taylor Swift, but for an overview of what's going on around the world it's still pretty good. Plus no adverts...
Same here - completely agree on the wokeness as well, recently it seems to have moved to more of a Magazine style format rather than a News site.I find the Apple news app quite good but annoyingly 50% of it is subscription only
I tend to stay with the larger more reputable sources like BBC and Sky. I have a few mates on social media who love to tell me how biased they are and their news sources are the ones to believe. You know the ones that use Meme's and have addresses like freeminds.org or sheeple.org...
Zetec-S said:
Mainly the BBC website... I'll get flack for this but I don't find it overly biased. Maybe a little too focused on "wokeness" and Taylor Swift, but for an overview of what's going on around the world it's still pretty good. Plus no adverts...
I disagree on one point - I think the new Boris appointee DG is starting to negatively impact the BBC’s impartiality (from an old lefty’s perspective). The recent story on railway consolidation - the ‘Great British Railways’ b
ks, read like a Tory party press release on the BBC website. There was a notable lack of balance in the reporting. I fear that the beeb may be becoming much more NP&E friendly!
jimbobs said:
I disagree on one point - I think the new Boris appointee DG is starting to negatively impact the BBC’s impartiality (from an old lefty’s perspective). The recent story on railway consolidation - the ‘Great British Railways’ bks, read like a Tory party press release on the BBC website. There was a notable lack of balance in the reporting.
I fear that the beeb may be becoming much more NP&E friendly!
It's a fair point, I know people say the BBC can be a bit "lefty", but it has been pretty lenient on the Tories for the past few years.... (admittedly not helped by Labour's ineffectiveness too). I say that as someone who leans slightly right of centre and tends to vote Tory.ks, read like a Tory party press release on the BBC website. There was a notable lack of balance in the reporting. I fear that the beeb may be becoming much more NP&E friendly!
However, I try to avoid too much politics, the partisan (and hate filled) nature of it these days is pretty depressing. I tend to skip most of these stories and find the BBC is a good source of info for non-political current events.
Northernboy said:
The Times, The Guardian, Bloomberg, Reuters, the FT and the BBC.
Exactly the same here. Probably throw in a bit of Sky News for me as well.If I’m listening to the radio in the car I will mostly listen to LBC and LBC News as you do get a range of viewpoints and opinions.
I quite like the variety of different news sources.
Lord Marylebone said:
Exactly the same here. Probably throw in a bit of Sky News for me as well.
If I’m listening to the radio in the car I will mostly listen to LBC and LBC News as you do get a range of viewpoints and opinions.
I quite like the variety of different news sources.
Yes, Sky’s very good for breaking news, they tend to throw something up the moment that it comes through to them.If I’m listening to the radio in the car I will mostly listen to LBC and LBC News as you do get a range of viewpoints and opinions.
I quite like the variety of different news sources.
In order of “amount of news I get from them”:
- FT. Think it’s well worth the money
- Guardian. Free and quality. I don’t read most of the comment articles.
- Times Radio. This may change once WFH becomes less of a thing, but find the mid morning better than R4
- R4. Generally just World at One or PM.
- BBC website.
For comment as opposed to news, I think podcasts are a lot better.
- FT. Think it’s well worth the money
- Guardian. Free and quality. I don’t read most of the comment articles.
- Times Radio. This may change once WFH becomes less of a thing, but find the mid morning better than R4
- R4. Generally just World at One or PM.
- BBC website.
For comment as opposed to news, I think podcasts are a lot better.
FT, The Times of Israel, Reuters, Al-Monitor, The Irish Times, Telegraph.
I glance at the Mail every day for a laugh, but take it with a very large pinch of salt.
Like others, I also look at the BBC website a couple of times a week, but find it very dull, dumbed down & scare mongering, not to mention the apparent woke agenda.
I glance at the Mail every day for a laugh, but take it with a very large pinch of salt.
Like others, I also look at the BBC website a couple of times a week, but find it very dull, dumbed down & scare mongering, not to mention the apparent woke agenda.
Zetec-S said:
Mainly the BBC website... I'll get flack for this but I don't find it overly biased. Maybe a little too focused on "wokeness" and Taylor Swift, but for an overview of what's going on around the world it's still pretty good. Plus no adverts...
this occasionally look at the dail mail for entertainment too
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