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[wolf]

Originally Posted by Pangloss62

But I pride myself on being well-informed, and that means avoiding commercial news outlets.

I will watch and listen to:
BBC
CSPAN
ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corp.)
Jim Lehrer News Hour

I do read the NYT

All of which are commercial, or worse, government controlled, news outlets.

Big difference, I see.

[Pangloss62]

All of which are commercial, or worse, government controlled, news outlets.

How are the BBC, CSPAN, The Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and PBS "commercial?" And in regards to PBS, it's our Government (and certain politicos therein) that are its biggest critics. PBS gets an appropriation from Congress, but it's not "run" by the Government.

Both the BBC and PBS are frequent critics of their respective governments; I would say that is one of their more important roles.

Should I watch FOX? CNN? Forget that shit.

I like the Swiss Daily which provides news reports from all over the world. There's naturally a bunch of Swiss news stuff on the site, too, but that's all on a sidebar which you don't need to click unless your really fascinated with what's going on in Basel or something:
http://www.swissdaily.com/

[headsplice]

Originally Posted by wolf

All of which are commercial, or worse, government controlled, news outlets.

Big difference, I see.

There's a difference between federally funded and government controlled. You're smarter than that, or so I thought.
What other outlets would you suggest? The internet, certainly, but that wasn't a part of the discussion at hand.

[wolf]

Originally Posted by headsplice

There's a difference between federally funded and government controlled. You're smarter than that, or so I thought.
What other outlets would you suggest? The internet, certainly, but that wasn't a part of the discussion at hand.

I wouldn't actually suggest any of them.

It's all spin, just a matter of how fast and which direction you prefer.

PBS is just as much of a corporate entity as any other news service. The "P" does not stand for "Pure" and certainly isn't as "Public" as you'd like to think. Hope you liked the tote bag, but your contributions aren't paying for much, if any of their ability to provide programming. Like any subscription service, it's supported by advertising ... for the purposes of PBS, the advertisers get their 10 second spot at the beginning and ends of programs, rather than interspersed through the interrupting your viewing pleasure.