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It's politically neutral and generally less opinionated. Competition is reuters, AP, other public media such as canadian tv, france24 etc.
by seydor 2y ago
It's politically neutral and generally less opinionated. Competition is reuters, AP, other public media such as canadian tv, france24 etc.
- jibe 2y agoThere are plenty of reasonable US sources, NY Times, WaPo, WSJ, but they are all paywalled.
- imabotbeep2937 2y agoWaPo, "reasonable". Ha. Or cut to WSJ and NYT on Theranos, SBF, and the other huxters they've shilled for with zero journalism lately. All US news is completely biased garbage in various ways. I caught NPR recently cutting and pasting a white house press release with zero journalism or commentary. Or their health blog which now routinely has stories like "measurements of height have historically been uses to marginalize short people, should doctors even measure it anymore?" I literally only get my news from what I randomly hear off forums like this. And I guarantee I'll beat anyone on a quiz of actual facts about world news. (e.g. after SBF was convicted, not before.)
- knowaveragejoe 2y ago> And I guarantee I'll beat anyone on a quiz of actual facts about world news. (e.g. after SBF was convicted, not before.) Put your money where your mouth is - prediction markets or some other fair debate. I personally would take the other side of that bet if contrarianism is your default.
- insane_dreamer 2y agoAFP as well
- closewith 2y agoThe BBC is not politically neutral. It's the legal propaganda arm of the British State.
- imabotbeep2937 2y agoTo take a stance much more suited to this forum. It's a massive travesty that without some work Americans are now redirected to BBC.com, which curates news to be American-facing, and thus IMHO bows to advertiser pressure. We can't see BBC.co.UK, so we can't know what the other side of the news even looks like. All news services do this. And it already fragments and destroys and hope of really talking about the news in a healthy manner IMHO.
- knowaveragejoe 2y agoCool it with the histrionics.
- closewith 2y agoIt's not histrionics. It's the State-funded broadcaster whose Director-General is a political appointee. It might not be obvious to those within the UK or maybe further afield if reading articles on relatively neutral topics like science or climate, but the BBC is a bulwark of UK Government political influence and Oxbridge sensibilities.