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raccoon (31,229 posts)Thu Jul 11, 2024, 05:38 AM15RECOMMENDWhere can one get reliable news now? I don't trust the USA MSM any more than I would the National Enquirer.
Meadowoak (5,779 posts)1. BBC or al jezerra
betsuni (26,529 posts)2. Don't trust anything, do your own research. This has been true for many years.Reply to raccoon (Original post)Thu Jul 11, 2024, 05:48 AMDon't trust non-American sources just because they aren't American, silly.
no_hypocrisy (46,949 posts)3. In 1998, my uncle advised to avoid US media for accuracyReply to raccoon (Original post)Thu Jul 11, 2024, 05:50 AMand to go online for foreign journalism, e.g., BBC, Figaro, Le Monde, etc.
DoBW (1,108 posts)4. I"M with Meidas Touch NetworkReply to raccoon (Original post)Thu Jul 11, 2024, 06:02 AMPro democracycheck out DW news, France 24, BBC, etc... look around
Kaleva (36,787 posts)5. You mean news that tells you what you want to hear?Reply to raccoon (Original post)Thu Jul 11, 2024, 06:17 AMUnderstanding the news and working to have a good knowledge of current events is like syntopical reading.What you get out of it is determined by how much effort you put in to it. Understanding the news is not a passive event. It takes work.
moniss (4,383 posts)7. The CBC, BBCReply to raccoon (Original post)Thu Jul 11, 2024, 06:39 AMLe Monde, Al Arabiya, Jordan Times, Ahram Online, several of the German outlets, NHK from Japan, Irish Republican News, Haaretz and others are all sources about various views on various topics. As with all media you have to read between the lines and watch for what might be informational as opposed to slant to support an agenda. That can be especially true when looking at media from areas of longstanding conflict. The Middle Eastern sources I mentioned are also useful to get an idea about development of commerce and infrastructure projects and about the energy market implications. Le Monde and the German outlets give me a touch for EU matters. NHK gives me an Asia source. I have not to date found a good media source for Central/South America/Mexico or for most of the African continent. Seems like lots of military/government coercion/intimidation historically and so I haven't picked any to date.For instance the Irish Republican News will carry stories about the investigations into the various cases during the Troubles that the Irish Times does not nor the British media. I already know the view of the IRN so I can weed through the slant to try to get to factual info about the current investigations etc. Similar approach for Al Arabiya. I get some West Bank stories etc. that I'm not seeing elsewhere. Again I already know where they are coming from and so I'm not there for the slant or influence but just for the factual matter such as an action took place at this town or that. Then I can sort of track it and check to see if I see anything additional in the Jordanian media or Israeli media. Once again I'm aware of the slant and filter it out because I am trying to stick to the nuts and bolts of events. I know all of the back and forth and it ends up obscuring what I'm about if I get lax.Domestically it is very hard anymore unless there are some alternative weeklies etc. that maybe do some stories that the big media avoids. It used to be that the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Philadelphia Inquirer and Seattle Post Intelligencer could be OK but those days seem mostly gone. I hope this helps and as always it's best to try and weed out the parts that are slant/opinion. However on the subject of opinion there are sometimes clearly labeled opinion pieces on the editorial pages that can have some nuggets of info about facts/dates/people involved that can be useful to you in doing further research/thinking about an event or subject.
Think. Again. (11,447 posts)9. optout.news ....Reply to raccoon (Original post)Thu Jul 11, 2024, 06:45 AM...is a media aggregator that offers a variety of independent news sources.You can keep it simple and just have their main stories sent to you daily or you can design your own collection of the sources you've come to trust.
canetoad (17,392 posts)12. Good worldwide coverageReply to raccoon (Original post)Thu Jul 11, 2024, 07:16 AMFrom ABC Au. They're the national broadcaster, so on a par with BBC but with fewer scandals.
malaise (271,611 posts)13. The UK GuardianReply to raccoon (Original post)Thu Jul 11, 2024, 07:21 AMIs the best on the planetHere’s whyhttps://www.theguardian.com/about/history#The Manchester Guardian was founded to promote the liberal interest in the aftermath of the 1819 Peterloo Massacre, and was first published on 5 May 1821. The Guardian achieved national and international recognition under the editorship of CP Scott, who held the post for 57 years from 1872.In May 1921, CP Scott wrote a leading article to mark the centenary of the paper setting out the values of the Guardian: honesty, cleanness [integrity], courage, fairness, a sense of duty to the reader and a sense of duty to the community203 years and counting - lots more at link
Hermit-The-Prog (34,768 posts)20. Check Vox, Mother Jones, The Guardian, BBC, CBC. Salon, The Atlantic, and of course Wonkette.
sop (10,854 posts)21. Before media consolidation, there were many competing news sources offering differing viewpoints.Reply to raccoon (Original post)Thu Jul 11, 2024, 07:42 AMEven though coverage was often slanted, most news sources would at least report the facts. Now our corporate media monolith is creating its own reality and truth.
Chakaconcarne (2,527 posts)30. DU is my gateway to news - I appreciate that all kinds of sources get posted here and makes my work easy.Reply to raccoon (Original post)Thu Jul 11, 2024, 10:16 AMI feel like I get a pretty broad view of what's happening.
