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Originally Posted by shinerbock
Absolutely. I was first turned on to both of those publications in college while taking a media bias type class (class was slanted left, but still interesting). To its credit, since I've started paying more attention to BBC in recent years, it seems a little bit more two sided than I recall originally. I like that they're actually paying attention to Europe being threatened by Islamic extremism. It took long enough.
I'm not saying that scrutiny of the US shouldn't be paid attention to, or that it is always unjustified. When I want to get a fair picture of something, I almost always try and look to foreign sources. However, for everyday matters, I don't really need the biting tenor concerning the US that you see in foreign publications.
Also, publications like the Asian Times are crucial if you want to know about middle eastern events, because CNN is much more interested in Sanjay Gupta and Barack Obama's vacation to fill you in.
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I guess I was thinking more of the BBC World newscasts on PBS. I'm always amazed at the difference when I catch the half hour news program there and then flip to one of the major US networks and watch their "world" news program. Print media slants I can imagine and believe, I don't tend to read many foreign print journals, though. We subscribe to the WSJ at home, I only read articles from other papers online.
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