On 21-4-2011 22:49, Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 20:57:33 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>
>> On 21/04/2011 08:51 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>
>>> You should (if you
>>> haven't) read what passes for 'news' over here in the US if you think
>>> the BBC is unbalanced.
>>
>> I thought that was just urban myth? o_O
>
> Have you tried reading what passes for news in the US?  After all, the
> information is on public websites accessible anywhere in the world.
>
> Try Fox News for starters - I consider them to be probably the biggest
> example of poor reporting I've ever seen.
>
> That's not to say only a right-leaning organization like Fox does a poor
> job.  I also tend not to trust those that lean heavily to the left.  What
> I really want from *news* is facts, not opinions, and that's really
> difficult to get in the US (from US sources, I should say).

IIRC the loophole here is that you can report that someone has an 
opinion as a fact. To spread an idea you only need to locate someone who 
has that as an opinion and if that fails have someone from your own 
staff in a 'discussion' program express that opinion. After that it is 
factual news.

Recently been watching mostly Al Jazeera (the English version) as a news 
source. They probably have their own bias, but everytime I think I know 
what it is, they broadcast something to prove me wrong. I wonder what 
it's mere existence has done for the change in attitude that led to the 
current developments in the middle east.


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Apparently you can afford your own dictator for less than 10 cents per 
citizen per day.

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