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I try to avoid it. It's too much of a time sink and there's almost zero pieces of actionable information. I know it's offensive to claim it's merely entertainment but in concrete terms there's no material difference resulting from tuning into daily banter that's any different than watching some serial drama on television.
The BBC has a wide range of podcasts (available internationally), including ones about geopolitics and science. Due to the nature of the medium and the BBC's generally more serious and composed disposition these podcasts tend to be about actually relevant information rather than the outrage-inducing, largely irrelevant rubbish commonly fed by "Now ... this" media.
I'd advise steering clear of anything related to UK politics published by the BBC. There's been a clear pro-right trend for a number of years evident most clearly during the most recent election and Scotland's independence referendum of 2014.
Then why has there been more complaints from the right than the left this year about the BBC?
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/31/bbc-election-c...
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I'd advise steering clear of anything related to UK politics published by the BBC. There's been a clear pro-right trend for a number of years evident most clearly during the most recent election and Scotland's independence referendum of 2014.
The BBC received far more complaints on coverage on the recent election from Conservative (right) supporters than any other group: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/31/bbc-election-c... The right wing in the UK is usually the group most critical of the BBC (AKA "Brussels Broadcasting Corporation"). I would agree that the coverage during the Scottish referendum in 2014 was biased but I think that this is beca…
> I think that this is because the BBC is naturally biased towards the status-quo.
Yes. And fearful of losing funding.
I try to avoid it. It's too much of a time sink and there's almost zero pieces of actionable information. I know it's offensive to claim it's merely entertainment but in concrete terms there's no material difference resulting from tuning into daily banter that's any different than watching some serial drama on television.
I try to avoid it. It's too much of a time sink and there's almost zero pieces of actionable information. I know it's offensive to claim it's merely entertainment but in concrete terms there's no material difference resulting from tuning into daily banter that's any different than watching some serial drama on television.
But I also have to limit my exposure to political news. Otherwise I get too depressed.
Spanish: Mexico https://www.jornada.com.mx/ Argentina https://www.pagina12.com.ar/ Cuba http://www.cubadebate.cu/ España https://www.elsaltodiario.com/ Colombia https://www.desdeabajo.info/ English: https://theintercept.com/ https://www.democracynow.org/ https://phys.org/
One is www.ambito.com (That it originates in a financial newspaper, but their politics reporting is very good).
the other is www.tiempoar.com.ar
After finally cutting myself off of Twitter, my main source for news has been the Wikipedia current events portal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events It's as close as can possibly be to unbiased, only lists significant events, and it covers world news rather than only focusing on America. My secondary sources are reddit's /r/OutOfTheLoop, and the chyrons I see whenever I happen to walk by a TV that i…
Does anyone know if there is an RSS feed of the Current Events portal?
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?hidebots=1&hidecategoriza...
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I'd advise steering clear of anything related to UK politics published by the BBC. There's been a clear pro-right trend for a number of years evident most clearly during the most recent election and Scotland's independence referendum of 2014.
The BBC received far more complaints on coverage on the recent election from Conservative (right) supporters than any other group: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/31/bbc-election-c... The right wing in the UK is usually the group most critical of the BBC (AKA "Brussels Broadcasting Corporation"). I would agree that the coverage during the Scottish referendum in 2014 was biased but I think that this is beca…
Number of complaints seems a pretty poor measure of bias, but it is one that is often used to reinforce the idea of the BBC's impartiality.
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Not to mention the appalling coverage of Jeremy Corbyn.
What was appalling about its coverage? Any sources or evidence? From what I understand they go to great lengths to remain as impartial as possible so curious what it is in particular you are referring to?