I'm encouraged that you are seeking to get other perspectives, since the media in the US, in general, hews to the same line of propaganda...since most people have become so dependent on the Internet, you should be aware hat there is another very good medium for obtaining other perspectives on world events: short-wave radio...it costs about $100 to buy one...Radio Shack usually has a number of Grundig radios in stock...also, get an extension antenna, as this will help with reception...be aware that, unlike AM/FM, short-wave frequencies for the various stations usually change two or three times during the course of a day, so you will need a handbook explaining how/when the different 'bands' or frequencies are used...you can also get this information online...I listen regularly to Voice of Russia, Radio Netherlands, Radio China International, Radio Japan, Radio Havana etc...all of these stations also have online feeds/podcasts that are available...the BBC used to
be the best in short-wave broadcasting, with about 12-14 hours of
programming available in the Eastern US, but the trend with all the
national broadcasters has been to shift to the Internet, draining funding available for broadcasting...the only BBC available on world-band now is the same NPR-type garbage you can hear on WHYY every morning...this is all homogenized, NWO bullshit...also, available on short-wave is WWCR (World Wide Christian Radio) from Nashville,
which carries the GCN (Genesis Communications Network), where you can hear Alex Jones daily...some good websites for 'alternative
global news' that you will never hear on NPR/Fox/CNN etc:

http://www.infowars.com (Alex Jones)
http://www.republicbroadcasting.org (Republic Broadcasting Network)
http://www.globalresearch.ca (for more 'intellectual' analysis)

who is this alex jones person? why shoudl i trust him? i like what he has to say about saudis and some aliens stuff, but i don't know about 9/11, i don't think bush did it on purpose.

When I moved from the US 8 years ago I was wholly unprepared for the news I read and saw on BBC and even Sky (Murdoch owned). Not only did they cover current events, they dug into the history.

News in the US seems to exist in a vacuum of history.

In the last year Al Jazeera English launched and it is quite good and broad in topics it covers. While CNN International is droning on about something US centric in 30 minutes intervals, AJE offers fresh stories and perspectives from all over the world.

Many Sky, BBC and CNN folks left for the AJE launch and are covering really out of the way news.

http://english.aljazeera.net/English

Their Arabic service looks like it has a Fox-like slant for a specific demographic/mindset.

In my work I deal with people from all over the world and knowing more about what going on in someone's home country or a bit of the history helps immensely.

Their reporting is probably not any more biased than that of USA papers. Acutally, from Dutch & German papers that I read on-line occasionally, I find it to be less biased than USA papers. I find another perspective to be valuable in providing some balance.

Agreed, worldpress.org is a great site. Might I suggest for those interested in African news: http://allafrica.com/ .

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Originally Posted by To Philly but most of those other countries don't like us, so aren't their news of us goi g to be biassed?

There are two sides to every coin.

I'd recommend BBC as an obvious source. Other than that, for whichever country you are interested in, just go to news.yahoo.com and put the country in the search and you get news from a lot of different sources. That works for any other place of interest.

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