Where do you get your news from ?
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I've always read the news on the BBC app or website but I've now got the point where I've just had enough of them. I'd like to start getting my news from elsewhere but unsure where else may be better. I know the obvious alternative is Sky but tbh I'm not mad on them either so I was just wondering if there was anywhere else which is worthwhile looking at ?
Reuters isn't bad and fairly neutral.
I used to like a mix of Telegraph and Independent, but the last couple of years the Telegraph has gone downhill and is behind a paywall and the Independent turned into the Daily Corbyn.
So mainly BBC, PH, Reuters, Guardian from time to time (away from the politics it's not bad)
I used to like a mix of Telegraph and Independent, but the last couple of years the Telegraph has gone downhill and is behind a paywall and the Independent turned into the Daily Corbyn.
So mainly BBC, PH, Reuters, Guardian from time to time (away from the politics it's not bad)
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We've already got a thread on this, but I'll just post again anyway!
Pistonheads mainly, though. I used to read the Guardian, Daily mail and the Independent until I realised that "broadening my views" was doing more harm than good. I'm much happier now that I stick to car forums and TV comment sections.
I've ruined many a good moodreading the Guardian's opinion pages. I have been known to tear them out in a rage on occasion!
I hate Morrissey's music with a passion, but he had it right in this song:
"Stop watching the news
Because the news contrives to frighten you
To make you feel small and alone
To make you feel that your mind isn't your own"
Guardian long reads and Private Eye are always worth a look for quality investigative journalism. The latter is better because it's got funny bits to stop you drowning in a pit of nihilistic despair.
We've already got a thread on this, but I'll just post again anyway!
Pistonheads mainly, though. I used to read the Guardian, Daily mail and the Independent until I realised that "broadening my views" was doing more harm than good. I'm much happier now that I stick to car forums and TV comment sections.
I've ruined many a good moodreading the Guardian's opinion pages. I have been known to tear them out in a rage on occasion!
I hate Morrissey's music with a passion, but he had it right in this song:
"Stop watching the news
Because the news contrives to frighten you
To make you feel small and alone
To make you feel that your mind isn't your own"
Guardian long reads and Private Eye are always worth a look for quality investigative journalism. The latter is better because it's got funny bits to stop you drowning in a pit of nihilistic despair.
I wrote to "The Eye" to ask why they are not covering any of the SNP debacles in Scotland as there are a lot of items that should be ringing alarm bells and need a dose of looking at. No reply, so I asked again if they couldn't tell me for legal reasons. Again - No reply.
I subscribe and find it usually digs into things the MSM don't (Rotten Boroughs is very good) but I don't get the silence on the things discussed on the Scottish Ref thread?
Maybe one of the alleged injunctions.
I subscribe and find it usually digs into things the MSM don't (Rotten Boroughs is very good) but I don't get the silence on the things discussed on the Scottish Ref thread?
Maybe one of the alleged injunctions.
BritishBlitz87 said:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...
We've already got a thread on this, but I'll just post again anyway!
Pistonheads mainly, though. I used to read the Guardian, Daily mail and the Independent until I realised that "broadening my views" was doing more harm than good. I'm much happier now that I stick to car forums and TV comment sections.
I've ruined many a good moodreading the Guardian's opinion pages. I have been known to tear them out in a rage on occasion!
I hate Morrissey's music with a passion, but he had it right in this song:
"Stop watching the news
Because the news contrives to frighten you
To make you feel small and alone
To make you feel that your mind isn't your own"
Guardian long reads and Private Eye are always worth a look for quality investigative journalism. The latter is better because it's got funny bits to stop you drowning in a pit of nihilistic despair.
Someone once said "The only thing I believe in a newspaper is the date; and even that I sometimes verify" We've already got a thread on this, but I'll just post again anyway!
Pistonheads mainly, though. I used to read the Guardian, Daily mail and the Independent until I realised that "broadening my views" was doing more harm than good. I'm much happier now that I stick to car forums and TV comment sections.
I've ruined many a good moodreading the Guardian's opinion pages. I have been known to tear them out in a rage on occasion!
I hate Morrissey's music with a passion, but he had it right in this song:
"Stop watching the news
Because the news contrives to frighten you
To make you feel small and alone
To make you feel that your mind isn't your own"
Guardian long reads and Private Eye are always worth a look for quality investigative journalism. The latter is better because it's got funny bits to stop you drowning in a pit of nihilistic despair.
NMNeil said:
Someone once said "The only thing I believe in a newspaper is the date; and even that I sometimes verify"
I like that. As to whether Twain actually said it I am unsure but the quote as is attributed to him is:
The man who does not read the newspaper is uninformed, and the man who does is misinformed.
For me personally, after years of Reuters, Al Jazeera, NYT, AP, Guardian and Times. I can no longer hold MSN in an form of high regard when they constantly lie and parrot the chosen narrative. See WMD.
For me it's SOTT, Mintpress, Off-Guardian. Unz Review and many other alt sources.
Although I caveat all sources as truly independent investigative journalism seems to have died in the early nineties.
Reuters.
Fairly quick to have the stories, often before other sources put their swing on it too.
Probably not fully neutral, but if you want to delve into any story then you need at least 3 (opposing) view points to get a better overall opinion, I find Reuters is a good middle ground for the majority of the time.
Fairly quick to have the stories, often before other sources put their swing on it too.
Probably not fully neutral, but if you want to delve into any story then you need at least 3 (opposing) view points to get a better overall opinion, I find Reuters is a good middle ground for the majority of the time.
hstewie said:semisane said:
Started well and then...plus you left off tea leaves !!
Twitter has a reputation for being a cesspit and it can be if you use it as one but it also leads to some absolute hidden treasures that I know I'd never have ended up reading without it.
To be fair the Mail and Mirror are mostly to see both extremes of the bileometer.
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