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Snaps (Elite) posted this on Saturday, 14th July 2018, 10:48

I've had the Beebs news page as my home page since forever but I'm beginning to get tee'd off with it.
Any confirmed news junkies care to offer sensible alternatives.

I'm currently giving Google news a try.

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Jitendar Canth (Reviewer) posted this on Saturday, 14th July 2018, 11:12

Depends what you find wrong with it. I could suggest Fox News, or the Guardian...

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Snaps (Elite) posted this on Saturday, 14th July 2018, 12:16

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Jitendar Canth says...
"Depends what you find wrong with it. I could suggest Fox News, or the Guardian..."

I'm not impressed with the lack of coverage regarding alleged Russian interference with the referendum.
That doesn't mean I'm jumping up and down screaming The Russians are Coming/have come merely that it deserves a lot more coverage than it's received including quizzing one their QT regulars Farage.

Fox News? Two words that don't seem to fit comfortably together.
Guardian? One or two columnists maybe but not enough to get me to subscribe.

Google News seems alright initially as long as I check the source I'm being directed to so as to discern how big a of pinch of salt may be required. Not to mention having to disable adblock for every damn site it sends me to to read it in the first place.


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admars (Elite) posted this on Saturday, 14th July 2018, 15:09

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Jitendar Canth (Reviewer) posted this on Saturday, 14th July 2018, 15:42

Apparently Flipboard allows you to personalise your news feed.

https://flipboard.com/

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Snaps (Elite) posted this on Monday, 16th July 2018, 08:49

The view from the other side of the pond

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The BBC’s reporting of the scandals around the Brexit referendum is not biased or unbalanced: it barely exists. It is as though the US networks had decided the Mueller investigation was no concern of theirs. There have been three huge stories the BBC has covered with only the most perfunctory reports: the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica data leak, the Brexit campaign funding scandal, and the exposure of Russian interference in British politics.

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The BBC was given the opportunity to interview the whistleblower and have a documentary ready to go once the news was out. But like Eliot rejecting Orwell, the BBC’s investigative program Panorama backed away. There was no “smoking gun,” it said. Within days, the smoke from Facebook’s burning reputation was billowing from its Palo Alto headquarters.
The whole article's worth a read. Wanders off point in places but still pretty good.

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RJS (undefined) posted this on Monday, 16th July 2018, 10:26

The problem with the BBC doing the things that article says they should be doing, is it's supposed to be the public broadcaster, and millions of people voted to leave. If it aggressively spent time on these dodgy things, it would lose the support of millions of people who would still vote for Brexit today.

So that would be a huge part of the population that would stop listening to BBC News and reading the BBC website. And that's before the government threatening it's license fee revenue.

It's damned either way.


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Snaps (Elite) posted this on Monday, 16th July 2018, 11:28

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Robee J Shepherd says...
"If it aggressively spent time on these dodgy things"

Seems to me that these things are far from 'dodgy' and it's the Beebs job to either prove they are or aren't.

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My fave tutor at uni had a great journalism 101 lesson: “If someone says it’s raining & another person says it’s dry, it’s not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the f**king window and find out which is true.”



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Robee J Shepherd says...
"And that's before the government threatening it's license fee revenue.

It's damned either way."

This way lies Pravda and being the state's mouthpiece.

Tweet from Alan Rusbridger ex Guardian editor.
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‘The BBC’s reporting of the scandals around the Brexit referendum is not biased or unbalanced: it barely exists.’ Another piece - angry and excellent - questioning the BBC, “impartiality” and Brexit.





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alfie noakes (Elite) posted this on Monday, 16th July 2018, 12:51

Have you been following Carole Cadwalladr?

Notice the personal abuse she gets from the brexit-ultras, Banks, Wigmore etc.

Threatened by Faceboke with multi-million dollar lawsuits, and ditto Cambridge Analytica, etc., attacked on Andrew Marr show by lying hyprocrite Isabel Oakshite.

You know they are close to the truth when the threats and abuse happen.

The brexiters are always saying how the 'remoaners' are traitors, but the real, genuine traitors are those who broke electoral law (in a staggeringly brazen way), stole voters personal info and colluded with Russia. The govt. (and Labour) just shrug off this inconvenience and unfortunately, the BBC make it easy for them.

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Snaps (Elite) posted this on Monday, 16th July 2018, 13:42

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alfie noakes says...
"Have you been following Carole Cadwalladr?"

Yes.
Whether you believe/agree with her or not there's an awful lot of stuff in there that at least needs investigating by our BBC.



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