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[Giles Coren and Sue Perkins, The Supersizers Eat… The Eighties]

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[Jeff Davis/Teen Wolf]

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[Django Unchained]

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[Valiant Hearts: The Great War]

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[Child of Light]

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[Jurassic Park]

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[Hate Plus]

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[The Three Investigators]

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[Charlie Hunnam]

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And can you recommend some reliable sources to me? Particularly online sources; I don't have television. I'd like to be better informed, especially when it comes to international news, but I don't know where to go to get that information.

Al jazeera http://america.aljazeera.com/ is pretty good. And BBC news http://www.bbc.com/.

Al Jazeera is still on the US watchlist, so use a proxy if you're in the US an viewing their site. And what ever you do, don't watch their newschannel at home!

Um, what? I've been watching Al Jazeera for a couple years.

Seconding the BBC!

You mean the BBC that has failed to report on the several dozen pedophiles that worked for it? It's even a twitter game now everytime a UK celeb's name starts trending, "Dead or Yewtree". The BBC has been pretty rubbish for news for the last five years or so now.

...I think I should have clarified that I watch the BBC on TV instead of browsing through it online and, so far, it's been good in my region (Malay Peninsula).

Is that the BBC news show presented by the short, always smiling guy from Singapore? Yeah, okay, he seems quite good. The online stuff is pretty much the level of the Daily Mail Online stuff now though.

That, plus a few segments from London (My country's a bit weird about programming and I've given up trying to understand it).

Guy on the street corner. That's how I know when the spacetigers will be invading and how to protect myself from lunar wasps. Totally legit. Also where to buy recreational substances.

...This is hilarious to me, because the only news program that I like is Ground Zero.

Yeah, I don't have much interest in conventional current events or anything like that. But I love hearing what tinhats have to say about it all. TELL ME SOMETHING WEIRD! Talk about Charles Manson and a clown serving ice cream out of the back of a hearse! (I'm not making that last thing up.)

Well I did hear, and keep this to yourself, that Zombie-Cobain is going to be releasing a new album on November 23rd about Doctor Who. But it is only going to be released on vinyl, and in Bhutan. So you gotta get to Bhutan by November 23 to get the most awesome undead 90s grunge album in the world.

Actually I think I read that on the Bhutanese tourism website. They really need to get a better PR guy.

BAHAHAHAHA! XD Awesome.

(Also, my boyfriend and I once had a conversation about the 2090s involving Zombie Kurt Cobain. Is this actually a thing that people think about often!?)

it depends on the part of the world you're interested in. most news agencies are going to cover "popular" international stories but there aren't a whole lot of sources that cover more localised stories for the world as a whole. i think BBC and the telegraph do a pretty good job of covering the most important international stories. i also check nbcnews (formerly msnbc) a few times a day. i manage to stay plenty informed but there are definitely better news sources out there if you're looking for "smaller" stories. but again for those i'd check more local sources, for instance i prefer 朝日 for japanese news and spiegel for german news i'm not likely to find someplace else.

in general i think i frequent nbcnews the most. you'll find some conservatives whining (at least in regards to american politics) that nbcnews is liberally biased, but most agencies are not without some degree of bias and honestly in my experience the sources i've linked to are about as neutral as they come. i'd be careful with some news sources though, like jezebel (if you even want to consider that news, i guess) and fox obviously.

eta: this is in regards to current events that are political in nature but for science-related (mostly astrophysics) news i check more specific sources. basically the general rule is that more popular general news sites are going to cover the big stories, whereas more specific sites (like sciencedaily) are going to have a more narrow scope of material but it's going to be really detailed, so i'd suggest seeking those out as well, depending on your personal interests.

Edited 2013-09-20 00:19 (UTC)

The Guardian.

The leftwing equivalent of the Daily Mail.

Well, I wouldn't be quite so categorical, but then I don't give a damn if my news sources are biased/report bullshit. That's how I roll. I just interpret their opinions and voila.

I just think its hilarious how the Guarniad and Mail mirror each other. They bother report on the exact same things, and they both go fantastically OTT in pretty much the same hyperbolic manner, and (with the exception of transphobia which they both manage to read from the same script on) they run with it in opposite ways. If they were forum goers instead of newspapers I'd call them both sockpuppets of a truly inspirational troll.

Yeah, that's kind of true. But The Guardian is my comfort food/newspaper, whilst Mail only manages to piss me off. [And I generally disagree with both. Go figure]

Uhhh that is dramatic and incomparable.

The Guardian might have a more "liberal outlook" but it doesn't deliberately post lies and sensational rumors like Daily Mail. Plus, Guardian got all that great Snowden coverage, they have my respect for that.

Google News.

...no, I don't mean Google the word "news." I mean that's literally a category of Google. It gives you a nice random sampling, although I've seen articles that report the same story but are biased in different directions. :)

Mostly DrudgeReport.com. Supplemented by other places, obvs, since Drudge is just an aggregator and does not write any news articles of its own. And they're mainly US focused. International news, I'd go with AP or BBC, and any stories that you are interested in, hunt up local sources like blogs or local stations with websites.

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