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22 sats \ 15 replies \ @siggy47 12 Oct 2023 \ on: Stacker Saloon
Does anyone have a recommendation for a live international news channel in English that actually presents the news?
As I always say: full trust in media if its about breeding dachshounds. Rest follows incentives and narratives of those in power. You should put together a menue of valuable accounts on 'x' to get first access. Like Mark knopfler once wrote a song: ''Private Investigation''...
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I'd guess for a channel to deliver live, 24 hour news they'd need a lot of staff and resources, and therefore big budget - difficult to be independent when you've got big backers.
If you're running on a skeleton crew a channel might just cut corners and repeat news everyone else is pushing and therefore stop being journalists any more.
The only independent set up that is of any quality is based in NYC. I used to listen to them all the time at work - I just read their headlines and interviews now for speed.
The show started small, first just audio, but now have a swish new studio and put out a one hour live show each weekday. They were a few blocks away from the twin towers on 9-11 and still kept broadcasting if I remember rightly. A few of the guys from The Intercept first cut their teeth there.
Maybe check them out:
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Oh yeah. I assume you probably listened to WBAI radio? I am very familiar with them. Their news has a strong socialist slant, but I find myself listening or watching their YouTube channel as a distinct perspective. I must say they have been particularly good regarding recent middle east stuff.
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Yeah, they're really good at reporting news from the middle east. They seem to get lots of academics on and get them to lay out what they know. I remember they had their own boots on the ground reporter during the Egyptian uprising.
Sadly, they don't seem to accept Bitcoin yet. They accept lots of other ways to support them including unwanted tech that they need in the studio.
They're broadcast on multiple radio channels nationwide - not just in NYC.
(You're right about YouTube too though! I used to download their show via torrents.)
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Lmao the state of western news. You probably need to do a linear combination of CNN/BBC and Al Jazeera to get something approximating news, but even then it's a crap shoot
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For years now I find all the major news channels unwatchable. Besides the ridiculous propaganda, they all became boring as hell. Shorter and shorter repetitive loops.
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Do you mean; Notable Events, Weather & Sport.
I do not :(
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Yes. That's what I mean. When I was a kid there was a NYC radio station that would rattle off news headlines. The slogan was "You give us 22 minutes, we give you the world." The station still broadcasts, but it's been propagandized and no longer just rattles off events. I know even the choice of story involves bias. I still would just like a long list of headlines to choose from.
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hahahaha is this a joke?
I have news for you: there's no such thing. They all lie or are puppets of bigger masters.
All you can see is just disinformation not informing people.
ALL OF THEM.
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From a propaganda perspective I know it's hopeless. I can try to weed through both sides and come to an approximation of what I think the truth is.
The problem is that it's all repetitive propaganda stories. I just want an approximation of a straight news feed: Earthquake here, fire burned down a building there, Syria shot missiles into Golan Heights...
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From all the years in communism and later watching the western media doing the same thing (but with more colors and fun) I realized that the only way to get the best "news" is to not consume them.
By consuming their propaganda you are just giving them a reason to exist, they literally feeding from your fear and concerns.
Just relax, do your own business and move away. The world is much better without them.
Bitcoin is the best example or destination to where you should dive in, when you are overwhelmed with their garbage news. There's so much to learn about Bitcoin that you will never finish.
I will repeat this over and over: focus on merchant adoption (if you are not a coder that builds bitcoin apps). Is the key to go forward. Be the bridge between bitcoin devs and consumers if you have some good knowledge about Bitcoin.
Just by starving the beast (fiat machine) all the rest will go away, including all those fake
propaganda news.
This meme have a true meaning that few still get it...
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I agree with your points (especially merchant adoption), but what I'm looking for is a basic awareness of events going on in the world. Call it curiosity.
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Follow ZeroHedge on Twitter, not unbiased but usually quite blunt and interesting headlines/articles
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I check Zero Hedge all day, but only because its slant happens to coincide with my own 95 percent of the time. I believe they are only a few guys, so there are obvious limits to what they can cover.
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News corporation are only after one thing, and that's profits. I won't go looking for news channels because all you're going to get is misinformation.
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