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I know we like to keep Hacker News non-political, but I can't help this. Get a load of Fox. Could they be any more blatant? I mean, seriously! Compare their

I know we like to keep Hacker News non-political, but I can't help this. Get a load of Fox. Could they be any more blatant? I mean, seriously! Compare their five most shared headlines with all the other news sites. You read those and you think the world's going to end. Then you read the other headlines and its like wait, the world's not ending?

alextgordon 16y ago
They don't seem that much worse to me. "School Children 'Blown Up' for Not Fighting Climate Change in Controversial Ad" is actually remarkably factual. Even the BBC has the headline "US gave syphilis to mentally ill", which omits the minor detail that the event happened 60 years ago.
iuguy 16y ago
Of all the headlines, the most 'normal' seems to be Al-Jazeera.
- dbingham 16y ago
  It's strange, given everything you hear about Al-Jazeera back in the states, but their English language service is the best news I've ever gotten short of NPR's All Things Considered or the PBS New Hour. I was never even exposed to it until we got here to Thailand. And all you hear about Al-Jazeera back in the states is bad stuff. They are an Islamic broadcast station. Said in that way to mean extremist, terrorist or theocratic. But they're not! They're like the BBC world only less sensational and with better investigative journalism. That or they're so sneaky and subtle about it that I'm being brainwashed by subliminal messaging and am not even aware of it.
  - iuguy 16y ago
    I spent some time in Qatar years back and got to know a couple of guys that were working there then when it was being set up. They wanted to have an Arab equivalent to the BBC or CNN. They were very impressed with the first Gulf War coverage on CNN and with the BBC's quality, but wanted an unbiased Arab news channel that would make the middle east the primary focus, rather than solely a source of trouble. I tend to find there's not much by way of Islamic content in it (compared to other state news channels in the region) but the quality is far greater than say, Russia Today.
ugh 16y ago
I would guess that in this case the headlines tell you more about the readers than the medium.

alextgordon 16y ago

They don't seem that much worse to me. "School Children 'Blown Up' for Not Fighting Climate Change in Controversial Ad" is actually remarkably factual. Even the BBC has the headline "US gave syphilis to mentally ill", which omits the minor detail that the event happened 60 years ago.

iuguy 16y ago

Of all the headlines, the most 'normal' seems to be Al-Jazeera.

dbingham 16y ago
It's strange, given everything you hear about Al-Jazeera back in the states, but their English language service is the best news I've ever gotten short of NPR's All Things Considered or the PBS New Hour. I was never even exposed to it until we got here to Thailand. And all you hear about Al-Jazeera back in the states is bad stuff. They are an Islamic broadcast station. Said in that way to mean extremist, terrorist or theocratic. But they're not! They're like the BBC world only less sensational and with better investigative journalism. That or they're so sneaky and subtle about it that I'm being brainwashed by subliminal messaging and am not even aware of it.
- iuguy 16y ago
  I spent some time in Qatar years back and got to know a couple of guys that were working there then when it was being set up. They wanted to have an Arab equivalent to the BBC or CNN. They were very impressed with the first Gulf War coverage on CNN and with the BBC's quality, but wanted an unbiased Arab news channel that would make the middle east the primary focus, rather than solely a source of trouble. I tend to find there's not much by way of Islamic content in it (compared to other state news channels in the region) but the quality is far greater than say, Russia Today.

ugh 16y ago

I would guess that in this case the headlines tell you more about the readers than the medium.