What New Channels & News Paper do You Recommend At Your Region?

[Map Designer]

Here its BBC news channel, and The independat/The Guardian are the high quality imo in the UK. There is BBC wold news too. I also watch aljazeera English channel sometimes (though not british but at least English)

The bbc does also covers some main EU news (e.g. it mentions attacks on France or other nearby countries etc). Not sure how would French people rate it compared to their media though (i.e. do you think bbc misses some very significant and main news who is locally interesting to french people?)

Also, I once wanted to know what US media says, and watched CNN, Fox News and some others. I was surprised how low quality they are compared to bbc. So I thought to myself what do american follow and perceive as high quality news?

I also want to know about different parts of the world (esp about palestine/israel war and and other meddle east affairs)

so, what would you recommend and consider high quality political news channels/news paper? Do they have english branches? (it would be good but as far as friends tell me, aljazeerah English is quite different from the arabic version, so if it is the same discrepancy with your suggestions between original non-english and the other English version, then please do highlight it)

I am interested in the following These countries especially:

1. UK
2. EU/France/Germany/Spain/Etc
3. US
4. Canada
5. Russia
6. Cuba/mexico/latin America
7. middles east/Arab world/Israel/North Africa
8. other parts of africa (south africa and also Nigeria etc)
9. china
10. japan
11. Australia/newzealand
12. india
13. Indonesia/malaysia

So, what is your opinions? I did find some channel named Inessa S and it seemed to me that it is trying to voice the russian veiws to English speakers (russian with English Subtitles)

 

[Kyrbi0]

Here in the US, I listen to a lot of NPR (National Public Radio). It's definitely got the occasional leftist slant, but overall it's a pretty balanced fact-based reporting outlet.

 

[Zombie]

Here its BBC news channel, and The independat/The Guardian are the high quality imo in the UK.

LOL

 

[Map Designer]

LOL

do you have better news source :O

 

[Zombie]

In the UK? Nothing that's entirely unbiased, but the BBC, Guardian and Independent are garbage far-left propaganda outlets.

Reuters is probably the most factual outlet in the UK and they're incredibly well sourced, but they're a bit left-leaning too.

I'd say it's strongly followed by Financial Times, which is imo even more unbiased, but it concentrates on economic news, which many people consider raw and boring (then again, it's the best kind of news for drawing your own conclusions and not consuming pre-packaged propaganda).

The Telegraph is a Tory magazine, but it tends to be more factual than the Guardian.

I also sometimes read Breitbart London, it has a few good articles about stuff the BBC and the Guardian refuses to publish, but otherwise it's far-right propaganda.

Still, the best service you do to yourself is that if you throw your TV the fuck into the trash and read print and online journals.

 

[Kyrbi0]

BBC is really bad? I listen to it occasionally via NPR... :<

 

[Map Designer]

I dont think there is any unbiased source otfinfo lol


I was thinking of these channels as sources which announce major events and inidents in eu and that if you follow them you be kept on the loop on what is happening in uk and eu (except maybe it doesnt cover as much what happens in russia)

Because as it seems to me, each channel & news papers focus mostly on covering their geographic area but miss out major events outside that region (except)

 

[Map Designer]

@Zombie what online journals ro you follow?

 

[Dr Super Good]

Be aware that CNN and BBC operate international news channels. These are extremely different from their local news channels, eg if you were to tune into BBC News locally via the local digital television broadcasts.

The international news channels generally cover more about the world. Exception being CNN International which seems to place high priority on USA local affairs. The local news channels are really local, for example here in Scotland BBC News Scotland covers all kinds of strange trivial Sottish news events that no one outside of Scotland would ever care about.

Japan uses the news channels of NHK, the Japanese state run television. China pretty much only allows for CCTV news, with other news services being heavily censored or blocked. Both offer international English channels and do primarily focus on local affairs. NHK World seems to be pretty unbiased as far as reporting goes, but mostly focuses on raising international awareness about Japan. CCTV is also largely unbiased with some of its reporting, however the main issue is with what it does not report and generally it suffers from program production quality problems.

Technically Russia has RT. However that channel seems to be mostly a propaganda engine and will say stuff about events that is contradictory to most other news channels. I suspect a large part of this whole "fake news" nonsense that has started recently has been RT playing off against USA news channels like CNN, resulting in it being hard to believe what either say is true. They do offer unique perspectives on some international affairs, eg reporting from the side of the Syrian government or North Korea, however it is hard to know what is true due to the underlying propaganda generation.

Al Jazeera English has good documentaries and reasonably unbiased and factual reporting for non-Middle Eastern affairs. However it does have bias problems with Middle Eastern affairs due to the nature of their Qatar funders. For example they originally showed many of the terrorist groups during the Arab Uprising movement in a positive light, even for a while after evidence of them committing war crimes was becoming available. Even to this day they still report positively about some of the fighting factions which are fighting Syria or ISIL, although that is really a morale grey area.

Channels like Fox and NBC only offer local American news as far as I am aware. They are also heavily biased towards local affairs.

 

[Zombie]

@Zombie what online journals ro you follow?

Uh... The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters, MarketWatch, CNBC, South China Morning Post and some local magazines you never heard of, I read these every day. I also follow the work of some independent, non-affiliate political commentators.

In the broader sense, I follow pretty much every major English, German and Russian news outlet in the world, although I only read major stories and those that cover markets.

The only magazines I stopped following were the Washington Post, HuffPo and the New York Times, but I even sometimes read their trash too if they uncover something thats actually journalism and not literal cultural Marxist propaganda.

 

[San]

 

[fladdermasken]

I'm so anti establishment I build my reality from completely mirroring what the popular news outlets say, instead of chewing the made up cud that's being packaged and sold to the masses.

Young girls are rampantly raping wealthy immigrants, Nigerian princes are being robbed blind by retirement communities, and Elon Musk is using PayPal to fund his research to establish a colony for Martians in Hawthorne.

Also, studies are showing that we eat eggs because of cancer.

It's all there if you roll your eyes back into your skull.

 

[Nowow]

One of the most unbiased media outlets out there.

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Amusingly enough, both this and wc3c run on vbulletin.

 

[Zombie]

I'm so anti establishment I build my reality from completely mirroring what the popular news outlets say, instead of chewing the made up cud that's being packaged and sold to the masses.

Young girls are rampantly raping wealthy immigrants, Nigerian princes are being robbed blind by retirement communities, and Elon Musk is using PayPal to fund his research to establish a colony for Martians in Hawthorne.

Also, studies are showing that we eat eggs because of cancer.

It's all there if you roll your eyes back into your skull.

 

[fladdermasken]

This is way rad. Alex's entire life is a massive iboga trip.

 

[pyf]

Spoiler: Necrobump!

For France, I would personally suggest:
- Le Monde
- L'Obs (ex: Le Nouvel Observateur)
- Le Canard enchaîné
- Médiapart

I may also very eventually watch the news from the Arte TV channel

For a selection of news articles from around the world, I am mentioning here Courrier international


For everything else not featured in any of the information sources mentioned above, please have a look here.



List of newspapers in France - Wikipedia

 

[Pinzu]

For Sweden i recommend unplugging all your devices, though this might be a universal guidline? Some public radio shows might get a quality pass, but just barely. You are better of reading international news from other sources. If local news is what you seek (god knows why) you can pick your poison between DN and SVD.

 

[Map Designer]

For Sweden i recommend unplugging all your devices, though this might be a universal guidline? Some public radio shows might get a quality pass, but just barely. You are better of reading international news from other sources. If local news is what you seek (god knows why) you can pick your poison between DN and SVD.

Dont you have a news channel that ppl usually watch?????? lol

 

[Pinzu]

Dont you have a news channel that ppl usually watch?????? lol

Well that would be Swedish State Television (SVT), you can watch it if you want to since it's the only option (there are others but they are of tabloid quality). The debates there are only half-decent if the actual politicians show up or some insightful bureaucrat is there to uphold sanity against radical groups given free air time. As for news, yes it has news and social commentary, but I only rarely watch it.

The biggest issue for me is that Swedish society has in general a very poor debate culture. The modderators are bad and the participants are generally not that trained in the format compared to Brittish/English culture. Take something like the BBC program "question time" (whcih i quite like) and compare it to the swedish equivalent "Debatt" or whatever the new name is, the latter is a mere shadow at best and a bad joke at worst. I'm also thinking of debates hosted by Oxford or Intelligence Square uphold a high standard and invite intresting people. Those kinds of shows are not shown here or are very rare. I don't know if it's because the schools themselves don't broadcast their material or if they don't exist.

 

[chobibo]

In my youth, I had read tabloids because its full of showbiz shit that it doesn't depress me, it also has a bit of pornographic pictures and the best of all, it can be sold to minors.

 

[pyf]

In my youth, I had read tabloids [...] it also has a bit of pornographic pictures and the best of all, it can be sold to minors.

I personally would not consider Page 3 girls to be related to pornography in any way. But of course, opinions may vary from country to country, as well as from individual to individual.

In 2012, some people seemed to be very upset by this sales tactic.

 

[Arowanna]

All news are biased, only death is real.

Annual Terrorist Attacks
- Grab popcorn
- Watch the world burn

 

[pyf]

All news are biased, only death is real.

Annual Terrorist Attacks
- Grab popcorn
- Watch the world burn

Quoting:

"[...] This map, a collaboration between the Esri Story Maps team and PeaceTech Lab, uses crowdsourced data from Wikipedia to present a chronology of terrorist attacks around the globe. [...]

As with any crowdsourced data, the map may display spurious or objectionable data, for which Esri and PeaceTech Lab hold no responsibility. Similarly, the definition of terrorism is inherently subjective, and in the case of this map is determined by the contributing community.

If you dispute an event on this map [...], we encourage you to submit revisions to Wikipedia via the “Improve the Map” button below. [...]"

As of this writing, the data being used comes from:
- List of terrorist incidents in 2016 - Wikipedia
- List of terrorist incidents in 2017 - Wikipedia
- List of terrorist incidents in 2018 - Wikipedia

All news are biased [...]

Terrorism related to drug wars and cartel violence is not included in the lists from Wikipedia that I mentioned above.

 

[Arowanna]

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[chobibo]

all aeds are biased?

 

[BlackEnvyX]

Honestly in this day and age, it's pointless to go to any singular news source for your information. It's better to look at five or six, compare information to see what's consistent and filter out all the bias and fluff nonsense.

 

[RuinKeeper]

About news channel in mainland china.
40% CCTV news consist bad things outside mainland china, 60% about good things in mainland china
(there is also 10% talking about bad things in mainland china but it overlapped with the 60% part because news told that our goverment got it under control)
Based on my own bias I think it's just stale.
(I doubt there isn't much difference between mainstream channel around the world but hasn't verified it myself)

About news channel in proviences of mainland china, some of them are pretty fun to watch, but I can't give a accurate summary about every channel given the vast number of different news channel in every single provience.

I don't read much newspaper so I think i can't give authentic comment about newspapers in mainland china.
But I remenber there is a certain type of newspapers write about games and computer which motivated me to struggle out of the mire of high-school and College Entrance Exam, it's quite a sunshine in those hellish years.but it cease to exist after 2016, which tore my heart apart.

Also, It's a fallcy fallcy to dismiss something biased without evident.
(but I'm too lazy to find evidence)

TLDR:CCTV news suck,others I don't know.

Sorry for bad english.

 

[Rui]

In Portugal, a few things to keep in mind:

• Pretty much all media (except maybe Jornal de Notícias, and only currently), including both newspapers and TV, is controlled by the right-wing;
• Electronic press hugely resorts to clickbaits and is terrible in general (exception maybe for Público) (there is a Facebook page called Truques da Imprensa Portuguesa, meaning "Tricks of the Portuguese Press", which is pretty good at pointing out said clickbaits and blantant lies in general);
• There is a huge tabloidization of the news in general;
• It is pretty easy for mediocre individuals to gain notoriety.

The news channel I prefer is channel 1, RTP. It is where I feel less manipulated. Sample difference from news on Friday: "50 Palestinians died on the border of Gaza" (SIC) vs "Israeli soldiers shot and killed 50 Palestinians on the border of Gaza" (RTP). It's two ways to put it.

EDIT: Ah, as for political commentary, I like to listen to historian Pacheco Pereira (in Quadratura do Círculo), though his bases fall short and he sometimes fails to address central issues; Ricardo Araújo Pereira (in Governo Sombra), Portugal's most notorious humorist (not a troll, and pretty good humor); and Daniel Oliveira (in Eixo do Mal), though this one really falls short on some of his analysis due to lack of historical background, and I prefer his Facebook page due to Eixo do Mal having poor moderation and commentators overall.

 

[Daffa]

In Indonesia, news is more on one of the two sides :
1. The government
2. The opposition

If you read most of the famous major news network (e.g Kompas, TVOne, MetroTV), they tend to heavily lean toward one of the sides above. From what I gather, TVRI is one of the more neutral channels for news, though their fame is low since they can't keep up with the other news companies. I'm not really into newspaper and TV nowadays though, thanks to all of these biased news (and me not really into them in general). The internet news are not so much of a difference, and it adds the infamous click bait title issue.

The news are also tend to be quite annoying when there's a hot case happening. On the recent events of suicide bombing at one of the major cities, the news was filled with all of it for a few days (sure it was juicy and all, but hell they tend to get overboard with the details of such events, ignoring the pain that event caused to the city). Oh, and I suggest to stay away from WhatsApp groups broadcasts, as hoax spread faster there than you walk from bed to bathroom.