Comments on: News from America ? http://www.tamba2.org.uk/T2/2005/07/09/news-from-america/ Eclectic. Sat, 16 Jul 2011 06:53:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: michael http://www.tamba2.org.uk/T2/2005/07/09/news-from-america/comment-page-1/#comment-4070 michael Sat, 09 Jul 2005 21:26:59 +0000 http://www.tamba2.org.uk/T2/archives/2005/07/09/news-from-america/#comment-4070 I use the <a href="http://slate.msn.com/" rel="nofollow">Slate</a> to find a summary and comparison of stories major US papers are covering, and sometimes go from there... I like the <a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/" rel="nofollow">Christian Science Monitor</a>, which despite it's name doesn't discuss religion much, although it is run by their church the view is that the <a href="http://csmonitor.com/aboutus/about_the_monitor.html" rel="nofollow">pursuit of the truth is a virtue</a>. I am also a regular reader of the BBC (I use firefox's livelines plugin to monitor new stories via RSS) and skim the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Guardian</a> and the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">Independent</a> for non US centric views of events. I also like reading The NY Times (especially <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/pages/opinion/index.html?partner=rssuserland" rel="nofollow">their op-ed page</a> which incidentally, although clearly opinion-based can be a more reliable source than a journalist who claims to be being objective while passing their opinion or their editors off between the lines). I don't mind bias as long as I'm clear what the bias is as in the case of <a href="http://www.alternet.org/" rel="nofollow">Alternet</a> and <a href="http://www.thenation.com/" rel="nofollow">The Nation</a>. I use the Slate to find a summary and comparison of stories major US papers are covering, and sometimes go from there… I like the Christian Science Monitor, which despite it’s name doesn’t discuss religion much, although it is run by their church the view is that the pursuit of the truth is a virtue. I am also a regular reader of the BBC (I use firefox’s livelines plugin to monitor new stories via RSS) and skim the Guardian and the Independent for non US centric views of events. I also like reading The NY Times (especially their op-ed page which incidentally, although clearly opinion-based can be a more reliable source than a journalist who claims to be being objective while passing their opinion or their editors off between the lines). I don’t mind bias as long as I’m clear what the bias is as in the case of Alternet and The Nation.

]]> By: OF Jay http://www.tamba2.org.uk/T2/2005/07/09/news-from-america/comment-page-1/#comment-4069 OF Jay Sat, 09 Jul 2005 19:04:22 +0000 http://www.tamba2.org.uk/T2/archives/2005/07/09/news-from-america/#comment-4069 Mark, I for one have long ditched the idea of finding a news site that holds true to its claims of impartiality. There is a big difference between being impartial and being fair, though. What I have learned to do over the almost three years of being attuned to current events is to try to gather news from sources whose opposing biases are either professed, or nonetheless onvious. News---the truth---is too valuable to be trusted from one source alone; if we assume that the truth is somewhere down the middle, then the best way is to diversify one's reading. I read the New York Post, Washington Times, The New York Times *and* The Washington Post, as a small sampling of stuff I read from. I watch both FOX News and NBC news. (The BBC's reporting, however, is a bit too dry for my ears.) I just don't tend to link to news articles because, well, it's not too interesting these days, ya? If you want news from the USA that follows a bit of the BBC's model, try the NYT. Mark, I for one have long ditched the idea of finding a news site that holds true to its claims of impartiality. There is a big difference between being impartial and being fair, though. What I have learned to do over the almost three years of being attuned to current events is to try to gather news from sources whose opposing biases are either professed, or nonetheless onvious.

News—the truth—is too valuable to be trusted from one source alone; if we assume that the truth is somewhere down the middle, then the best way is to diversify one’s reading. I read the New York Post, Washington Times, The New York Times *and* The Washington Post, as a small sampling of stuff I read from. I watch both FOX News and NBC news. (The BBC’s reporting, however, is a bit too dry for my ears.) I just don’t tend to link to news articles because, well, it’s not too interesting these days, ya?

If you want news from the USA that follows a bit of the BBC’s model, try the NYT.

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