NationStates Jolt Archive

What is it?

(There's a poll on the way.)

I get my news from NS General! and the pizza delivery person.

I get my news from NS General! and the pizza delivery person.

lol

By the way, a quote of yours has graced my signature. :D

lol

By the way, a quote of yours has graced my signature. :D

I noticed, and am indeed flattered. :)

And a bit embarassed too, since now my secret love affair with Saddam is the laughing-stock of all NSGeneral. :(

I voted for the ABC, where the news never stops coming.

I like the BBC, myself. They're relatively unbiased, and usually very thorough in thier reporting.

I do like the American CNN as well, but they do tend to get swept into "event" stories like the disappearance of Natalee Holloway and Jennifer Wilbanks, or the trial of Scott Peterson. While such stories are kind of interesting, they don't exactly deserve the hours upon hours upon hours of coverage that they tend to get from CNN.

CNN.com, news.bbc.co.uk, the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times are my top four sources.

Mine is the BBC, hands down.

I prefer BBC as far as western news. But I also watch Al-Jazerra and Mosiac which shows news from across the middle east. btw, the Arab prospective of this rescent conflict is far different and IMO more accurate than western media.

I like the Dominion Post or 3 News.

Good NZ news.

I chose Al Jazeera just because I could.

I use BBC online pretty much exclusively. Though not entirely free of bias I find it to be more so than US news sources, as well as providing better coverage of the world. Plus they usually stick to stuff that is actually newsworthy, or at least more often than their US counterparts.

I voted Fox!

I like the BBC, myself. They're relatively unbiased, and usually very thorough in thier reporting.

I do like the American CNN as well, but they do tend to get swept into "event" stories like the disappearance of Natalee Holloway and Jennifer Wilbanks, or the trial of Scott Peterson. While such stories are kind of interesting, they don't exactly deserve the hours upon hours upon hours of coverage that they tend to get from CNN.

I love the BBC because it is required by law that the government have everyone pay for it when they buy a TV.

We need to the BBC because by having the government run the news it gives us complete unbiased news. A state-run and controlled operation allows for people to get true facts in all situations, including the urgent fact that we need to expand new government programs, and increase government regulations to protect us from GLOBAL DESTRUCTION FROM CATASTROPHIC WARMING OF THE EARTH!

I'm glad that we don't have private people providing serious news because if they did, they the emphasis would lead people to conclude that we need more privatization. (We already tried that with Maggie Thatcher and it was an utter failure!) Luckily, BBC allows people to claim to be educated, while advocating more progressive principles and more rights to be effected by Parliament.

Thank Our Common Ancestor with Bonobo for the BBC!

A state-run and controlled operation allows for people to get true facts in all situations,


At least the facts the government wants them to have.

I really do believe the BBC is a good news source, as well as one I use often. That quote just bristled me a little.

A state-run and controlled operation allows for people to get true facts in all situations.
That's an amusing claim. What makes you believe that the state is more capable of providing information in an unbiased fashion than someone else?

I love the BBC because it is required by law that the government have everyone pay for it when they buy a TV.

We need to the BBC because by having the government run the news it gives us complete unbiased news. A state-run and controlled operation allows for people to get true facts in all situations, including the urgent fact that we need to expand new government programs, and increase government regulations to protect us from GLOBAL DESTRUCTION FROM CATASTROPHIC WARMING OF THE EARTH!

I'm glad that we don't have private people providing serious news because if they did, they the emphasis would lead people to conclude that we need more privatization. (We already tried that with Maggie Thatcher and it was an utter failure!) Luckily, BBC allows people to claim to be educated, while advocating more progressive principles and more rights to be effected by Parliament.

Thank Our Common Ancestor with Bonobo for the BBC!
ok, this post confirmed what I already had suspected, your a troll. Thanks for playing

edit: I also find it funny that you claim to be liberal however you voted for Fox news as your favourite news source...

the only information i need to know is whats going on in my life. i dont need no stinking information coming from the North East West or South. non of them exist to me.

*hides in cave*

I love the BBC because it is required by law that the government have everyone pay for it when they buy a TV.

We need to the BBC because by having the government run the news it gives us complete unbiased news. A state-run and controlled operation allows for people to get true facts in all situations, including the urgent fact that we need to expand new government programs, and increase government regulations to protect us from GLOBAL DESTRUCTION FROM CATASTROPHIC WARMING OF THE EARTH!

I'm glad that we don't have private people providing serious news because if they did, they the emphasis would lead people to conclude that we need more privatization. (We already tried that with Maggie Thatcher and it was an utter failure!) Luckily, BBC allows people to claim to be educated, while advocating more progressive principles and more rights to be effected by Parliament.

Thank Our Common Ancestor with Bonobo for the BBC!

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I like to get my news from a credible source, so I chose Fox news, niggers...Goddamn!:)

BBC. Period. The end.

I like to get my news from a credible source, so I chose Fox news, niggers...Goddamn!:)
That’s rather contradictory ... thought you wanted a credible source, guess your credibility standards are low

I like to get my news from a credible source, so I chose Fox news, niggers...Goddamn!:)
Do you seriously watch that? Because when I try to watch Faux news I get physically sick.

Do you seriously watch that? Because when I try to watch Faux news I get physically sick.

it is kind of difficult to accept the truth at first, but you eventually get used to it;)

it is kind of difficult to accept the truth at first, but you eventually get used to it;)
Yeah and eventualy you grow to like hearing the truth and that feeling and continue watching just about anything but Faux

US---PBS News Hour

Mad TV
Real Mother F*#@$%$ News:D

I like to get my news anywhere I can. I usually either watch or listen too KSTP when I have the time. And Paul Harvey.

Mad TV
Real Mother F*#@$%$ News:D
Damn strait!

Smoke signals. I get my news by watching the horizon to the northwest for smoke signals. I don't know who they are, but they're well informed and virtually unbiased. *nod*

They also send me great recipes.

Smoke signals. I get my news by watching the horizon to the northwest for smoke signals. I don't know who they are, but they're well informed and virtually unbiased. *nod*

They also send me great recipes.

who would of thought that Eut lets off all that steam when he is trying to think:D

who would of thought that Eut lets off all that steam when he is trying to think:D

:eek:

:p

:D

Eutrusca: http://www.abestweb.com/smilies/ranting.gif

Only two votes for the New York Times?

Knuckledraggers...

Only two votes for the New York Times?

Knuckledraggers...

Oh, come on now. I read newspapers, but the Globe and Mail (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/) is my newspaper of choice.

ok, this post confirmed what I already had suspected, your a troll. Thanks for playing

edit: I also find it funny that you claim to be liberal however you voted for Fox news as your favourite news source...

I fully intended to support the New York Times but I was clicking too fast and picked Faux News.

Soviestan, just because I embarassed you in another topic, doesn't mean you can go about trying to retaliate by calling me troll. Making false accusations of troll is worse than being a suspected troll.

I am a true mainstream Democrat (GO JON TESTER!). Most Democrats, except maybe 3 months before an election, support government operated television and radio. Where were you when we protested the mean-spirited Republican cuts to NPR and PBS?

With the corporate media controlling everything we see and hear, we need government, unbiased media to counter-act it.

The BBC, which is also government-run, provides unbiased news trusted by the British public. Plus, for many Brits it sustains their notions that they are superior to Americans since they have rejected God and many Americans believe in a fairy tale.

Since it is natural for humans to long for God, in fact God has written the moral law on the hearts of men, progressives need state-run media in order to counteract these natural feelings and put feelings of supremacy and status as a substitute.

Be serious, would you rather have God and His oppressive moral law or unlimited sex no matter when you want it, and a constitutional right to abortion if contraception fails?

You decide, but most Americans and Britons would rather have the sex.

This is why we don't have to pretend to be moral for the election, like you want to be, we can be honest. Most Americans know that you can't legislate morality, so why do we pretend to support legislating morality during election time?

http://www.theage.com.au/

http://www.abc.net.au/

http://www.sbs.com.au

All three are pretty good.

Fark.com

Of course, it's not news, it's fark ;)

I fully intended to support the New York Times but I was clicking too fast and picked Faux News.
right....
Soviestan, just because I embarassed you in another topic, doesn't mean you can go about trying to retaliate by calling me troll. Making false accusations of troll is worse than being a suspected troll.
how did you embarass me? You didnt even respond to my posts that destroyed your points.
I am a true mainstream Democrat (GO JON TESTER!). Most Democrats, except maybe 3 months before an election, support government operated television and radio. Where were you when we protested the mean-spirited Republican cuts to NPR and PBS?

where was I? I was letting the Republicans make those cuts because Government funded news can very easily lead to propaganda.

BBC. Because its fair and balanced.

CNN and Al-Arabiya.

for those of you who do not know, Al-Arabiya is a compeititor network in arabic broadcasting to Al Jazeera.

Otherwise, NS general, ninemsn.com.au, random newspapers, etc etc etc, I like to keep informed, 4 better flaming haha :sniper:

Fox, I watch them slightly more then CNN.

BBC, RTE and Sky. Fox isn't a news source its an entertainment channel. They rarely report true facts with out it being streched.

Sweden's Dagens Nyheter (http://www.dn.se)

Your favorite news source


I get most of my information from reading chicken entrails.

I get most of my information from reading chicken entrails.

News and a yummy snack. :)

News and a yummy snack. :)
That's way to gross the this early hour

mental image be gone :headbang:

I like to get my news from a credible source, so I chose Fox news, niggers...Goddamn!:)


So, you define "credibility" as "anything that agrees with what I want to believe". Ok, just so I know.

A mixture... I read the newspapers Dagens Nyheter (http://www.dn.se) and Aftonbladet (http://www.aftonbladet.se). I generally get my tv-news from Swedish television, SVT (http://www.svt.se/nyheter). I also do use the BBC's website and sometimes watch BBC World. The BBC certainly seems to be the best and most impartial English-language news organisation that I'm aware of.

I also receive CNN International and SKY News in my house, but I don't really watch either very regularly. I can get FOX News as well, which I find absolutely hilarious. It's hard to believe it can be considered a news channel, it appears to me like satire.

Tagesschau (http://www.tagesschau.de/)

BBC and RÚV.

...I can get FOX News as well, which I find absolutely hilarious. It's hard to believe it can be considered a news channel, it appears to me like satire.

It's hilarious and tragic at the same time (Tragilarious?), since some people actually take everything they say seriously.

BBC (british), CNN (USA), Al-Jazeera (quatar-arabic), Daily Yomiuri (japanese) and Dagens Nyheter (swedish).


You mean tragicomic, Cromotar?

You mean tragicomic, Cromotar?

Shush! Don't ruin my pretty new word! ;)

Shush! Don't ruin my pretty new word! ;)

*buffs 'Tragilarious' up 'til it shines*

Sorry. There we go. :p

I get my news from

1. The BBC ( Though not Newsround not since they got rid of John Craven)
2. Daily Telegraph
3. Private Eye
4. Lincolnshire Echo

There's nothing better than the Wall Street Journal. For TV news, which can't compare with print news, I watch Fox News. For local new, it's the local Fox station.

You didn't include the Comedy Central news shows. That is, apparently, a source of news for a large number of kids. Not a good source...

WDR2 and heise.de

NPR - National Public Radio.

You didn't include the Comedy Central news shows. That is, apparently, a source of news for a large number of kids. Not a good source...

Ofcourse! How could I have forgotten to mention my love for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert?

I'd like to change my vote from BBC to The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert! :p

http://www.theage.com.au/

http://www.abc.net.au/

http://www.sbs.com.au

All three are pretty good.

Yeah.

I read the New York Times online for the most part. Occasionally I'll pick up a copy of the local paper (the Sacramento Bee), but half their stuff is taken from the New York Times and AP anyway. Recently I've started reading the Wall Street Journal, but it's invariably a day or two old by the time I get to it (I only get to read it when I'm at my boyfriend's parents' place - they have a subscription). I also read Le Monde online, and watch the French news online when I want to practice my French.

Newsround obviously

Ofcourse! How could I have forgotten to mention my love for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert?

I'd like to change my vote from BBC to The Colbert Report with Stephen Colbert! :p

yea, I think their shows are pretty good

BBC are my first resort. Channel 4 aren't bad either.

When I think about it, all the news that's fit to print is on The Sun/Page 3.

When I think about it, all the news that's fit to print is on The Sun/Page 3.

Sigged :D. End of topic. Serioulsy for me it would be the BBC. They seem much more unbiased unlike many other corporations and report relevant news.

Hmm...I read the STL Post Dispatch...but generally, I go to Google News. If you read one article that seems biased, you can just read another about the same thing. Television news is more entertainment than information, for almost every channel.

I would so very much like to find a news source more concerned with health and education than unbelievably small yet controversial issues of the repulicans and democrats, like abortion or gay rights.

Got no favorite.

Favourite?

The New York Times. And The Daily Show. :)

But the news on German public television and radio are all rather decent and *gasp* unbiased, so I'm good either way.

Well, I want only objective, factual coverage, so I stick to Fox News and The Onion (http://www.theonion.com/content/)

I prefer to get my news from Comedy Central, specifically The Daily Show. Its real news, except not boring. Oh, and how could I forget the Colbert Report, without good 'ole Stephen, I would never have realized that in a recent operation, bears have gained control of northern Alaska, poor Eskimos....:(