Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The Beeb is still the best, even if its standards > have dropped lately. You just have to pick your > stories carefully. > > The Guardian lost the plot a while ago when it > blurred the wall it had between its previously > excellent news coverage and the abject lunacy of > its opinion writers. And it is another that > creates whole articles based on people's tweets > like they are news. > > The Indy is quite good, but it's website design is > just so plain revolting it is unreadable, even > with an adblocker on full attack mode. You'd think > that going internet only they'd have fixed this, > but no. And the Indy100 bit is just plain awful - > it reads like they get a bunch of unpaid interns > to write it and it reads like Twitter on > steroids. > > The Times' paywall makes it irrelevant. The > Telegraph is going the same way. Interesting, > though, how the Guardian seems to have convinced > many thousands of gullible suckers to part with > five quid a month. > > The worst paper by far (yes, even considering the > Sun and the Mail) is the Express. Shameless > buzz-feed style headlines hyping up nothing > stories. Yes I still like some of the BBC too, though you have to be selective. Most of their mainstream news items are thoroughly washed. The BBC news site is one I check twice a day at least. I do find that the supposedly unbiased BBC totally disregards real European interests (not the EU though - which it loves) and that goes for Radio 4 especially. I can't see anything interesting in any other TV news broadcasting. The Guardian's international coverage is often good, especially the broader articles, but the lunacy is indeed there - here's a rightwing review of recent self-celebration from the online edition: http://nwioqeqkdf.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-low-hanging-guardian.html I still like The Economist, The Spectator and The New Statesman though I normally only read the print editions of these if I have gone on a long journey. I also like Russia Today in its various formats, and sometimes listen to LBC in the car at various times of the day and in the evening.
