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I was going to post these links in the Kim Jong Il thread but then realised I'd be accused of being a commie and trying to derail the thread, so new thread for this, and to be fair, it's important enough a subject to warrant its own anyway.
Auntie was pissing me off with it's obvious drum beating - I just wanted to hear a bit about Kim Jong Il's death - not hear more about our political objectives in the region - so I'd left the Beeb to have a look at another news source
I haven't been on the Al Jazeera site in many months, which is dumb of me - as they paint a very different picture of the world. Relying on auntie recently, then seeing a couple of stories that I'd not heard a thing about has left me feeling like an american - their news is woefully inadequate in terms of coverage - and it seems ours is increasingly horridly like that. American news sources simply don't report on a lot of important shit and as a consequence Americans are aware of fuck all (and it goes a long way to explaining their idiotic intolerance of anything different).
For example. It's proper kicking off in Egypt at the moment: At least ten dead and 400+ injured as egyptian military assault protestors (and set fire to camps in Tahrir square) after four straight days of violence - footage includes rather nasty beatings. I guess we're not covering this on teh beeb as we support the military as we supported the previous government.
And as US troops leave Iraq one of the two Iraqi vice presidents has been arrested on the orders of the prez, as he's apparently been saying that the US has left Iraq with a dictator, who's been centralising power recently. The arrest looks set leave the country in a political crisis. Apparently.
I guess I wanted to post this because I spend a lot of time on the internet but not nearly enough time challenging my own world view - which I think is important to do.
What non-western news sources do you use, if you do? What news are we missing? Am I wrong, and should we get behind our own political propaganda for a happier life?
Auntie was pissing me off with it's obvious drum beating - I just wanted to hear a bit about Kim Jong Il's death - not hear more about our political objectives in the region - so I'd left the Beeb to have a look at another news source
I haven't been on the Al Jazeera site in many months, which is dumb of me - as they paint a very different picture of the world. Relying on auntie recently, then seeing a couple of stories that I'd not heard a thing about has left me feeling like an american - their news is woefully inadequate in terms of coverage - and it seems ours is increasingly horridly like that. American news sources simply don't report on a lot of important shit and as a consequence Americans are aware of fuck all (and it goes a long way to explaining their idiotic intolerance of anything different).
For example. It's proper kicking off in Egypt at the moment: At least ten dead and 400+ injured as egyptian military assault protestors (and set fire to camps in Tahrir square) after four straight days of violence - footage includes rather nasty beatings. I guess we're not covering this on teh beeb as we support the military as we supported the previous government.
And as US troops leave Iraq one of the two Iraqi vice presidents has been arrested on the orders of the prez, as he's apparently been saying that the US has left Iraq with a dictator, who's been centralising power recently. The arrest looks set leave the country in a political crisis. Apparently.
I guess I wanted to post this because I spend a lot of time on the internet but not nearly enough time challenging my own world view - which I think is important to do.
What non-western news sources do you use, if you do? What news are we missing? Am I wrong, and should we get behind our own political propaganda for a happier life?