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Thread #162855   Message #3926745
Posted By: Steve Shaw
23-May-18 - 07:51 PM
Thread Name: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
Subject: RE: BS: Post Brexit life in the UK
If it's pure news, presented in a neutral way, that you're after, the best you can hope to do is seek out sources that try to keep comment and hidden tendentiousness out of their news reports. Even then, you're at the mercy of the fact that a newspaper only has so much space and a radio/TV broadcaster is strapped for time. Someone has to decide things like what page an item goes on, how many column inches it gets, whether it gets the banner headline for that page, etc etc. Or indeed whether it gets in at all.

Apropos of keeping comment out, the best newpaper sources are the Guardian and Telegraph. The worst are the Sun, Mail and Express. Guido Fawkes starts out with an agenda, therefore is not to be trusted. I'm with Jim on sources such as Electronic Intifada and al Jazeera. There's much good stuff in both and journalistic standards are high, though quoting them as sources is a game not worth the candle around here. The flip side of that is highly amusing: one or two people here are more than happy to quote disreputable sources such as Guido Fawkes and the Mail, often just putting up the link with either a "witty" little aside or no comment at all. Speaks volumes.