Quote from: Alexzap on March 06, 2017, 08:36:53 PM

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Quote from: freedomno1 on March 06, 2017, 10:55:24 AM

It depends if you want to avoid the mainstream media just get your sources on the USA from other countries where objective reporting still exists.

Nhk Newsline from Japan, the BBC at times in the UK they are far more bias to Brexit , CTV or CBC from Canada, RT is pretty honest despite all the US fear mongering about it being the Kremlins shouting point from Russia, Al Jazeera from the Qatar,Dubai or CCTV from China to name a few.

The point is as long as it's not from the USA it probably is ok to watch news related to that country through it and not feel like being hit by endless propaganda waves.
Just be careful not to do the safe-space logic where everyone lives in filter bubbles that is a scarier thought than 1984 and the thought police, it would be the self-created thought police.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

Thanks for the link to that Wiki page - it gives me a name for what I am trying to describe, my 'filter bubble'. I'd like more control over my own filter bubble.
I'm cool with being in an isolated culture if the alternative is being overloaded with junk.

I'm in the UK, I do pick through a few of the news sources you mention but I can tell you that the BBC are always pushing their narrative.
My favourite news source is probably the Financial Times, because they attach less emotion and/or fear mongering to the stories.

Don't have much experience with US news outlets....

It is necessary to make a selection of the sources of information that you can trust, and this issue needs to be very good and adequate analysis. And the main merit of good agencies that is their objective.

I think it will be very difficult for you to do. A lot of the media print on the pages of comments of experts which can be biased. Nowadays, any information should be verified in different sources and to analyze.

I get what you meant, if you make a decent filter bubble you can avoid most of the junk, some gets through but that variance provide objectivity.

The biggest issue with the news is under reporting and people needing to connect their own dots a good example was the topic someone else posted here about an Indian being rejected entry into the US due to Trump ban.

The US politicians lobbied for him to enter the country, then he went and assaulted a young girl and the US news decided to not follow up on that story in the live news, instead it gets mentioned as a note on the BBC and non-mainstream media.
(Example of something against the narrative getting ignored by the mainstream)

Your point about the BBC is true though, objective wise compared to the US outlets it's tolerable for USA news but for UK news you probably know best their positions on Brexit and various issues so finding a neutral outlet for UK news would be good.

If you can connect dots decently you can still find the real point of view but ideally the news should be able to context these things but since they don't always do that people need to be objective and analyze it between sites.

For UK related news, a non UK outlet would work best although the Financial times is not bad, kind of like the National Post (Canada one).
Either way best of luck on building it.

Indian thread
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1811362.0

Interesting Article:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/will-democracy-survive-big-data-and-artificial-intelligence/