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Depressingly, you guys have confirmed my worst fears: There's no such thing as proper news on TV. 
I also forgot to mention: reporters, (now usually called "correspondents" or "editors"), standing outside 10 Downing Street/The Whitehouse/a hospital/an airport or on a motorway bridge, for absolutely no good reason! 
Oh, and the 'Breaking News' banner telling us about something that happened yesterday! Ignore the 'Breaking' bit, some of it doesn't even qualify as 'News'! 
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Years ago you could buy a newspaper which would at least contain a nice pair of [REDACTED]. 
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Their mission has nothing to do with the news. It has to do with keeping you tuned so as to watch the commercials. Note the highly trained meteorologists.
Don't bother with all that. Just ask Siri. 
If you can keep your head while those about you are losing theirs, perhaps you don't understand the situation.
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I mostly watch CNN for news and switch to Fox (fair and balanced) occasionally for entertainment/laughs. 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
"Hope is contagious"
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on TV nope. Unfortunately they always interject there own opinion. Thru facial expressions if nothing else.
I have been trying to stay with the written word lately and researching how actual factual the organization is before going to their site. In the US only one so far is apnews but slightly left leaning. perhaps wallstreet journal though they do lean slightly right. but only those so far.
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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All news sources are biased one way or the other, especially if they have editorials.
Vary your news sources, locally, national and international.
There are sources like the AP or Reuter that are less biased.
I'd rather be phishing!
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They (used to) "loop" most (late night) radio broadcasts; this is just progress; no human intervention news.
It was only in wine that he laid down no limit for himself, but he did not allow himself to be confused by it.
― Confucian Analects: Rules of Confucius about his food
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The news is what you make of it, or more correctly, what they make of it.
I learned eons ago, before the internet replaced it, by listening via SWL (Short Wave Listening). You can hear each country's version of the news. You can also hear it keep changing, day by day. For example, when Soviet Union shot down that Korean Air Lines Flight 007, at first the various Soviet stations denied having anything to do with it. In just over a week, inch by inch, they built a case as to why it was done and they did it and it was perfectly justified. And Radio Tirana, what a bunch of psychos. Voice of America; BBC, Radio Canada, &etc.
These days, the best thing to listen to on SW is the Time Signal from Fort Collins, Colorado. The remainder are right-wing-religious-fanatatics (who need your donation to support their good works). The odd conspiracy theorists, too, and plenty of the two having cross-bred
I do much the same, now, with TV (& streaming TV) and internet news. A mixture from a bunch of sources and try to deduce some sort of truth out of it. Interestingly, the same news in different languages is often quite un-same. For example, EuroNews (streaming): the English language version is always way behind, missing many items and has infomercials in the guise of news from places like the Emirates. On the other hand, the German version is much more up-to-date, has many more items and none of those infomercials. Also, unlike the English version, they rarely have items that I think were "blacked out" (won't load) that are available in German and other languages.
Sticking with EuroNews, English version - it's amazingly rare that they'd have any news about Israel that isn't negative - or they just skip it. To balance this, I have the obviously pro-Israeli Algemeiner.com[^]. Where else would you learn that they're arranging to have 2000 more Falasha (Black Ethiopian Jews) brought to the country. Yet - that same news vehicle will have articles about the discrimination that occurs because of the extreme cultural differences. They don't sh*t vanilla ice cream and aren't afraid to admit it. Compared them to The NY Times[^] and wonder how you can trust anything they print? Back to your original premise, whose idea of what you should know and how you should know it are you going to get?
So, in conclusion, I suggest you ask me.
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The thing that really frustrates me with the BBC News (esp. the Breakfast show) is the long, rambling, incoherent questions that the interviewers ask which end up not having a point that the interviewee can answer, which is just as well as the interviewers have taken so much time asking whatever they are trying to ask that there is no time left for a response.
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Not TV, but I've been feeding my news appetite with the No Agenda podcast for years.
They've long figured out what you've been observing, and their twice-weekly podcast covers how news organizations twist everything to fit their agenda, in some rather entertaining format. Each "episode" is nearly 3 hours long, so it's great if you have a long commute or the like. I find it to be a great way to remain informed, and cut through the BS.
They've been accused these days of being pro-Trump, but all they're doing in reality is pointing out how news outlets are biased against him, and never miss any occasion to make him look bad and leave out context to make things appear worse than reality.
It takes some getting used to, as there's a lot of insider jokes building up on what they might've discussed on previous episodes, and the soundboard thing may be a little much to get used to...but I find the whole thing to be quite interesting.
They have no advertisers, as they (rightfully) point out that having any sponsor would mean there's subject matters they could never cover, and it's all supported through listener donations. A while ago some group of butt-hurt people tried to get them shut down by going after their advertisers. They quickly found out there was nobody they could complain to.
The show's hosted by Adam Curry (of MTV fame back in the 80s, and self-proclaimed creator of the podcast), and John C. Dvorak (a name who many here might recognize as he wrote for PC Mag for years). The ying and the yang, really, and they complement each other very well.
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Right in the middle of the spaces in the treble stave is a laughable / ludicrous drama. (5)
modified 12-Oct-20 4:10am.
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FARCE
R in FACE - notes of treble stave
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Well done - you're up tomorrow (Again).
Your explanation was correct, but as I'd prepared this little ASCII art, I'm still adding it ...
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spaces in the treble staff = F A C E (as per diagram above)
Right = R
Right in the middle of the spaces in the treble staff = F A R C E
laughable / ludicrous drama = FARCE
Trivia fact of the day: Ludicrous derives from Latin 'ludicrus' probably from 'ludicrum' which means stage-play
modified 12-Oct-20 5:05am.
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I would have tried to explain more - I'm not musically talented* - but I was on my phone while waiting for Herself to have bloods taken.
* cannot carry a tune in a bucket; people start to run away screaming when I sing.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Wow! Love the ASCII art..... 
Every Good Boy Deserves Flattery!
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I see what you did there.
Thanks
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What did he do ? Every good boy deserves a favour
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: Every Good Boy Deserves a Favour
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My father was a pro musician and was kind enough to share the talent with me - I could read music before I started school - never used it except to learn something I've never heard.
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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I have tried at various times to learn but have never made much progress. Sadly the only music lessons I received at school were from people who could not teach.
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Yes I know what you mean - my teachers in general were very good when I was in North Wales but when we relocated to the South of England it all went wrong - I was about three years ahead of what they were teaching in the South so consequently lost interest in education and left school at fifteen with no qualifications except street knowledge ( which has stood me in good stead ) I basically educated myself after school finished in what they used to call Technical College ( 3 days a week at work and two in college for seven years ) and ended up with City and Guilds in Mech Eng and an HNC in the same
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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pkfox wrote: when I was in North Wales
Whereabouts? I lived in Prestatyn in the 50s, and went to the Grammar School in Rhyl.
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Caernarfon, Segontium School ( named after a roman fort nearby ) have relatives in Rhuddlan just outside Rhyl - one of my distant relatives used to have a stall on Rhyl fair
"I didn't mention the bats - he'd see them soon enough" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Artistic licence? Granted by virtue of the smiley!
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