Best place to get good current news?

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Just got the morning paper, I was expecting it to be filled with lots of photos, and correct facts and figures. With also some speculation and theories, but importantly, reporting the facts correctly about the current events going on. Just looking through the paper now, and important news gets page six, while a lotto win story gets page one two and three.

The lotto win story, gets loads of photos and plenty of facts and figures. While the important story, ( drones around airport) has no photos, and no facts and figures etc, and gets a little paragraph.

Question is, where is the best place to get good current news?
 
jonbeeza said:
Question is, where is the best place to get good current news?
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TP, the place is "loaded" with experts on all current affairs
And if they are not sure, just like the newspapers they will make up the "facts" to suit their agenda :D
 
jonbeeza said:
Just got the morning paper, I was expecting it to be filled with lots of photos, and correct facts and figures. With also some speculation and theories, but importantly, reporting the facts correctly about the current events going on. Just looking through the paper now, and important news gets page six, while a lotto win story gets page one two and three.

The lotto win story, gets loads of photos and plenty of facts and figures. While the important story, ( drones around airport) has no photos, and no facts and figures etc, and gets a little paragraph.

Question is, where is the best place to get good current news?
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I read 'The Truth' aka MailOnline - lots of coverage about the lottery win and the most important fact that they can give is the value of their current house. No item of news can be complete with a valuation of the subject's house. Somebody's been butchered? I want to know how much their semi was worth....
 
Cobra said:
TP, the place is "loaded" with experts on all current affairs
And if they are not sure, just like the newspapers they will make up the "facts" to suit their agenda :D
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I do tend to get most news on here, but when people put their spin on things, things get twisted, and you then don't know what to believe.
 
welshwizard645 said:
I read 'The Truth' aka MailOnline - lots of coverage about the lottery win and the most important fact that they can give is the value of their current house. No item of news can be complete with a valuation of the subject's house. Somebody's been butchered? I want to know how much their semi was worth....
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I got the Mirror, as the missus loves the TV guide. But three pages about the lottery winner... Maybe the paper thinks it's readers want happy stories, rather than sad and annoying ones.
 
Cobra said:
Exactly just like main stream media :D
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Whatever happened to the bloke standing on the corner, with a pile of papers, and shouting, "extra extra, read all about it". If you wanted to find out what was happening, you bought the paper. Now, the papers don't tell you about important things going on. When you get the paper now, front page news is "what celebrity is sleeping with who".
 
Best of luck finding "good" news anywhere - most of it is bad. :(

If you read the same story in a selection of papers (or on a selection of sites on the web), you can form your own opinion as to what might have happened - a single source will put its own spin on it.
 
jonbeeza said:
Whatever happened to the bloke standing on the corner, with a pile of papers, and shouting, "extra extra, read all about it".
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Blimey! your age is slipping :D

jonbeeza said:
When you get the paper now, front page news is "what celebrity is sleeping with who".
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And who are these celebrities anyway? certainly no one I've ever heard of,
and that, is exactly the reason(s) I stopped reading newspapers eons ago.
 
For daily news it is a combination of BBC and one or two of the broadsheets.

For a look at a view from over the pond I sometimes use The Atlantic ( https://www.theatlantic.com/world/). This is in magazine format so has articles about a large number of issues rather than daily news.

Full Fact (https://fullfact.org/) is also interesting but again not for daily news stories.

Dave
 
Nod said:
Best of luck finding "good" news anywhere - most of it is bad. :(

If you read the same story in a selection of papers (or on a selection of sites on the web), you can form your own opinion as to what might have happened - a single source will put its own spin on it.
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But the news I normally search for, is normally when something has happened. It is not good news I am on about, but bad news I am referring to. ;)
 
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jonbeeza said:
Whatever happened to the bloke standing on the corner, with a pile of papers, and shouting, "extra extra, read all about it". If you wanted to find out what was happening, you bought the paper. Now, the papers don't tell you about important things going on. When you get the paper now, front page news is "what celebrity is sleeping with who".
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Like this you mean? :-)
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y37r0u4PfpA
 
I subscribe to the Independent online newspaper, you download it every day and I reckon it’s as impartial as any UK news source.

BBC news website for an outline of the latest news, the Guardian site is pretty good too.

I find the New York Times has some very well written articles with balanced views although you have limited access as a non subscriber.
 
Cobra said:
Blimey! your age is slipping :D

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Used to love getting the evening paper from the bloke standing on the street corner, I would go into the city and get the early edition. The nearer you went to the distribution centre, the quicker you could get the paper. This you would do, so you could get to the classifieds, before the majority. You would quickly scan the ads, then ring up the seller before anyone else got the chance. Bought most of my cars like this. ;)

PS

The only downside to this, recent events and results would miss the print deadline.
 
jonbeeza said:
You would quickly scan the ads, then ring up the seller before anyone else got the chance. Bought most of my cars like this. ;)
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:lol:

Many years ago, I did as most school kids did, had a paper round, there also used to be a printing works, very local, and sometimes when picking the papers up, they were still warm!
Literally hot off the press :D
 
I read the local rag that comes through the letterbox each week (free) but I've not bought a daily for over 40 years :)
 
jonbeeza said:
Whatever happened to the bloke standing on the corner, with a pile of papers, and shouting, "extra extra, read all about it". If you wanted to find out what was happening, you bought the paper. Now, the papers don't tell you about important things going on. When you get the paper now, front page news is "what celebrity is sleeping with who".
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The "red tops" have gone that route, as have the other tabloids, as they perceive it is what their readers want to read.

If you want actual news with the smallest amount of political spin, buy the Financial Times (it still has its own viewpoint, but doesn't spread it with a trowel). The other broadsheets do nearly as much spinning as the Mail or the Mirror, just with longer words.
 
For a quick look at what is going on I tend to use BBC website. For more details I tend to trawl the web and make my mind up from there. I can't remember the last time I brought a "news"paper.
 
jonbeeza said:
I got the Mirror, as the missus loves the TV guide. But three pages about the lottery winner... Maybe the paper thinks it's readers want happy stories, rather than sad and annoying ones.
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Or just possibly, feeding the appetite for vicarious living and dinner table discussions shadowed with jealousy ;)
 
onomatopoeia said:
The "red tops" have gone that route, as have the other tabloids, as they perceive it is what their readers want to read.

If you want actual news with the smallest amount of political spin, buy the Financial Times (it still has its own viewpoint, but doesn't spread it with a trowel). The other broadsheets do nearly as much spinning as the Mail or the Mirror, just with longer words.
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I did read it a few times, but it is obviously business related news.
 
munch said:
For a quick look at what is going on I tend to use BBC website. For more details I tend to trawl the web and make my mind up from there. I can't remember the last time I brought a "news"paper.
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I always tend to get stuff popping up, and adverts flashing up, and having to wait while advert loads, and then runs. I hate sites that make you watch the advert, before showing the news story.
 
I have set up my online affairs so that facebook handles all the day-to-day stuff by just people (mostly friends and family) and Twitter to handle the news media side of it. But I don't have The Sun and Mirror on Twitter because they tweet every few minutes with mundane "celebrity" news thus overpowering everything else I have on there. Just the BBC & ITV news and the local rags does it for me.
That said, I still buy The Mirror and Sun papers for my elderly mother to read as it keeps her quiet for hours.
 
jonbeeza said:
Question is, where is the best place to get good current news?
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I like the following:

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news (because you get a broad mix of sources)
https://news.google.com/?hl=en-GB&gl=GB&ceid=GB:en (because you can compare difference sources and also see how some put their own spin on things)
https://uk.reuters.com/news/uk
https://www.ft.com

YouTube can be useful sometimes to hear the views of individuals who have been reported on in the news or to search certain events and watch things for yourself. I also enjoy watching Andrew Neil interviews.

I tend to ignore media outlets who are very bias to the left or right. But in contrast I do like to watch interviews etc with people who have clear bias and especially when there's a counter debate with someone of the opposite leaning.
 
I am checking out what others use and recommend, thanks for all the input so far. ;)
 
Get the Guardian most days, quite often has some interesting articles and particularly like "the long read"
 
News outlets worldwide, be it print or broadcast do not exist to publish the news, they exist to make a profit for their owners / shareholders. To do that they will make stuff up, lie outright and ignore stories that do not suit their owner's agenda.
You expect it of the gutter press (Express, Mail etc.) but by far the worst is the BBC because 'we expect' them to be balanced and honest. If you want non partisan reporting of news on UK subjects, look to the foreign press and compare what you see there to what you see locally.
 
tijuana taxi said:
Get the Guardian most days, quite often has some interesting articles and particularly like "the long read"
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Carole Cadwalladr is writing some good stuff for the Guardian, probably the only journo digging into the dark money that funded the brexit referendum.
 
UK - breitbart

US / world agregate - drudgereport

US - Infowars and some foxnews



tijuana taxi said:
Get the Guardian most days, quite often has some interesting articles and particularly like "the long read"
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It is good to be familiar with the enemy propaganda too.

Foreign affairs and the Atlantic, the Economist are really higher level publications. Guardians are for the sheeple.
 
Steep said:
You expect it of the gutter press (Express, Mail etc.) but by far the worst
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In many way they are the worst. Just feeding constantly on the same thing and making it sound sensational again and again and again (Markle, fake conspiracy theories, another wardrobe malfunction) and missing out the important. Oh did I mention all their horrible ads all over?

Steep said:
BBC because 'we expect' them to be balanced and honest.
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Honestly, do you expect any state run news outlet to be "balanced and honest"? They are the ultimate propaganda engine in UK - mainly by pushing stories they want and non-reporting anything else, and just very gently pressing their own viewpoints which adds up to massive shift of public opinion over decades. RT is not much different, just not that subtle. When they want you to know about their latest toy or opinion they clearly let you know. I'd rather hear it from them direct rather than read regurgitated and weaponised BBC story.

Local and grassroots journalism is what you should be looking for. And that is exactly what the big guys will try to silence and shut down by any and every means possible. Literally any.
 
Steep said:
News outlets worldwide, be it print or broadcast do not exist to publish the news, they exist to make a profit for their owners / shareholders. To do that they will make stuff up, lie outright and ignore stories that do not suit their owner's agenda.
You expect it of the gutter press (Express, Mail etc.) but by far the worst is the BBC because 'we expect' them to be balanced and honest. If you want non partisan reporting of news on UK subjects, look to the foreign press and compare what you see there to what you see locally.
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I was watching something yesterday, and it showed shops in London getting done up, getting Xmas lights and glitter etc. The Narrator went on to say, "shops are fighting back, and footfall and sales are up. People are shunning on line shopping, in favour of a real shopping experience. Online sale are now down slightly. ". About an hour later, the news said, "high street shop sales are down, while online shopping continues to grow". Contradicting news, it is like this all the time. Just don't know what to believe.
 
LongLensPhotography said:
It is good to be familiar with the enemy propaganda too.

Foreign affairs and the Atlantic, the Economist are really higher level publications. Guardians are for the sheeple.
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How pathetic is calling your fellow citizens the enemy and sheeple, just grow up
 
I have tried some of the suggested news feeds above, some I have heard of and some not. Some look interesting, and I may use them in future. :)
 
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