Comments on: US news: utter utter rubbish

By: Tbone

Tbone — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 03:26:00 +0000

Why? You ask is the US Media so rotten?

Only 3 men, zionist, own every single major media outlet in America, (that includes all News, Papers, Book Publishing, and music)

And all their executives belong to a propaganda club called the CFR

The Council on Foreign Relations was specifically formed to persuade American opinion

Coupled with the fact that Rockefeller and Dewey employed the philosophies of Wundt & Hagel into the American education system many years ago

I will remind you that Wundt & Hagel’s philosophies were used by Marx and Trotsky to forge the mechanics of Communism

Thus, Americans are, in Rockefellers own words, “passive cogs in the wheel of society”

Now you know why the news in the USA sucks; and why the American sheeple haven’t realized that there nation is entirely bankrupt!

Oct 1st US Military troops are training to fight American citizens

US owes 96 trillion it has plundered & pledged to SS & Medicare

US plundered another 53 trillion from other trusts

US owes 10 trillion interest to a bunch of private bankers it allows to print money out of thin air

US owes on 12 trillion Freddie & Fannie; US owes untold to Bernanke’s buddies on Wall Street

US is over and done with!

Thank god for my second citizenship!

By: get free publicity

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By: Kieren

Kieren — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:27:58 +0000

Yes, there are two NPRs – one where it is in fundraising mode – which is unbearable – and one where it isn’t – where it is twee.

The BBC World thing is not bad but I think the problem is that it’s such a cheap version of the real thing that it makes it quite hard to watch.

I am getting into the BBC news website’s one-minute news update.

Re: Today. I find the podcasts a bit frustrating in the same way I find Jonathan Ross’ podcast annoying – it’s edited chunks. However, the Today programme now does its own terrific Listen Again page where it breaks up the show into playable parts with an explanation.

I’ve started using that in the morning as my main news source. I’ll try to put together my new wireless network tonight (adding draft-N and file storage) so I’ll sticlk my other laptop in the bedroom and hey presto! Today programme playing in bed – just like back in Blighty.

Kieren

By: RichardA

RichardA — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:39:34 +0000

Love it. See my email.

Personally NPR drives me up the wall because of the pseudo-ads and the “fundraising drives” so I gave it up. The BBC World half-hour news show is awful – done on the cheap, it’s terrible, cardboard sets and third rate presenters.

BBC America is just Antiques Roadshow repeats and Dr Who.

Strangely enough, you can oftentimes pick up France 24 or whatever it’s called on cable – the French CNN – and that’s pretty good, for straight news. It’s usually channel 73682 or something.

Why not just listen to Today show podcasts?

By: Kieren

Kieren — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:52:04 +0000

Hey Kev,

I’m trying NPR – National Public Radio. It’s not bad – at least it provides the actual news in a professional format. But it is very, well, twee.

You can just imagine the presenters wearing nice warm jumpers and tutting at little things that irritate them. It’s real news but in a tea cosy.

Still 1,000 times better than the “trapped in a lift with a bellowing idiot” experience that most TV news over here represents.

Kieren

By: Kevin Murphy

Kevin Murphy — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:07:36 +0000

Kieren, take the advice of someone who has felt your pain.

If you want to find out the news from US cable TV, your best bet is to watch the History Channel and just extrapolate.

By: Flotsam

Flotsam — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:49:49 +0000

We have five channels here in Aus. The ABC is like the BBC but without any budget, SBS is like Ch4 but aimed more at ethnic minorities (and used to have live Premiership footy until Murdoch spirited it away to PoxTel and a subscription) and the other three are fully commercial and stuffed with endless CSI This and CSI That. Some nights are just cop dramas back-to-back for three hours. And lastly there’s ABC2 which has endless repeats of top notch BBC and Ch4 comedies; it’s the one channel that keeps me sane.

By: sarah alderdice

sarah alderdice — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:11:14 +0000

And we can all see the kind of voter, thinker, statesman/woman, visionary this crap produces….

By: Chris Edwards

Chris Edwards — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:16:22 +0000

“It gets worse…solely to egg on disagreement”

The sad thing is that you’re sitting watching the future of media. With one exception, the bit about egging on disagreement, you’ve described the big political blogs, such as the HuffPo (“The Internet’s newspaper”). The difference is that the participants egg on each other to eject anyone who disagrees with the majority viewpoint. Other than that, US TV news and the big blogs have become mirrors of each other.

By: Rebecca Sanchez

Rebecca Sanchez — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:33:12 +0000

I was just wondering what you think of a journalism concept that features live news from around the country and world all one one web site. Our plan is to create a sort of global journalism site so viewers from around the world can easily be informed.

It’s called livenewscameras.com and it runs 24 hours a day. Viewers get to see the action as it unfolds thanks to the many live helicopter feeds from different stations on the site and the more than 200 feeds on the site. They also interact with each other thanks to the chat room. If you have any thoughts you’d like to share, you can reach me at info@livenewscameras.com.

Thanks,

Rebecca Sanchez
livenewscameras.com