Whose news do you trust?

[Danllan]

I suppose a poll could be done, but there are probably going to be too many - and surprising - names given for that, so the questions stands: Who's news do you trust?

I read the Telegraph and the Guardian online, and find the quality of journalism still pretty high in both; I trust them anyway, as far as I think any source can be. I have no faith in the BBC as an institution anymore, but a little in a few of its individual journalists. I've no faith in RT, Al Jazeera, Fox or Sky either. And, from what I've seen of them, the 'national' channels in Europe seem on the same politicised trajectory as the BBC - it's a pretty poor show across the board...

It's no surprise to anyone that I'm on the right generally, but I don't want a 'right' version of the news, any more than I want a 'left' one. I just want the facts in reports, if I want 'opinion' I'll go elsewhere.

So what do you trust?

 

[Bald Rick]

Private Eye

Daily Mash

TFF

 

[kiwi pom]

Don't bother that much these days but do have the Reuters app on my phone, they seem fairly balanced.
If you read that then CNN, the BBC and Fox, you'd swear they were all reporting on different planet earths.
Most Kiwi stuff is just pinched off other agencies. Local news seems to pick and choose what they think you should know about.

Better off not knowing I think.

 

[YorkshireAndrew]

Yorkshire Post , don’t trust owt else .

 

[Danllan]

... Local news seems to pick and choose what they think you should know about...

I think that is the general - and very worrying - problem.

 

[le bon paysan]

Reuters
France24.
Both give international news, from everywhere.
We do watch BBC and sky, a bit, but both have become so narrowly focused, they seem to think the rest of the planet isn't there or doesn't count.

 

[ollie989898]

Reuters and Al Jazeera. Only because they have a wider international focus though. I will not pay for print media ever again, I got The Week magazine given to me by subscription as a Christmas gift and it's mostly tripe aimed at rich folk.

BBC, The Telegraph and Guardian, fudge that. Wouldn't bother me if they vanished out of existence.

 

[The Agrarian]

I subscribe to the Telegraph and the Belfast Newsletter. I also read the guardian in as large doses as I can stomach (which is not much). I do check the BBC news website daily too. So, to me, that's a fair enough spread of bases to get info from and make my mind up on.

I don't watch, and haven't watched a scheduled news programme like the ten o'clock news in years.

 

[Danllan]

I subscribe to the Telegraph and the Belfast Newsletter. I also read the guardian in as large doses as I can stomach (which is not much). I do check the BBC news website daily too. So, to me, that's a fair enough spread of bases to get info from and make my mind up on.

I don't watch, and haven't watched a scheduled news programme like the ten o'clock news in years.

Yep, I'm not a fan of the Guardian as an institution, but... it does employ some competent journalists as well as the obligatory demagogues, I've friends on the left who'll say the same about the Telegraph. The Independent was what it claimed, at the start, but later went a bit weird; the Times can offer good reading, but can't be relied on anymore.

I've not been much of a follower of Reuters but, in addition to the above, some friends have suggested I try it again; I guess it's worth a punt to see if it's any good... I hope it is.

 

[Filthyfarmer]

Prior to my lad joining the Army and being told to read up on current affairs, they recommended the Economist as the go to magazine.

 

[The Agrarian]

I tend to read the guardian with my right leaning glasses on, and the telegraph with my left. I do think it's important to notice the hard-line writers in both, and for that you need your mind to be constantly open and on guard.

 

[Wellytrack]

Wapo, NY Times, Guardian, Reuter’s, mother jones, snopes, the intercept and others.

Not the daily mail, express, independent etc. All trash of the highest order.

 

[Henarar]

Farm Contractor
Its free to
What's not to like

 

[M-J-G]

It's all selected and is just a microscopic summary of current affairs.

How can the events of our own nation be summed up in a couple of dozen stories in some rag/programme, let alone what's going on with 7.8 billion people in almost 200 countries.

In the grand scheme of things were only a mark up on being better informed than those in places like North Korea, in that they get told nothing but what's cultivated for them, and we get told a little bit more of what's fed to us to keep us thinking we're well informed because we can navigate through what we are nudged towards.

 

[arcobob]

I do not read any national newspapers on a regular basis and seldom watch the news on BBC and can`t stand Piers Morgan so I am not well informed apart from the BBC internet news etc.. The Guardian and Telegraph are too polarised but if you pick out the bones they can be quite good, the Independent is clearly not independent and the Times may be the most balanced but not reliably so.
I used to read the Eastern Daily press on a regular basis but some of the feature writers and editorial was starting to grate on me. I stopped reading papers mainly because of the health aspect and the fact that I do not visit shops on a regular basis.

 

[Muck Spreader]

Got to be Breitbart and the Morining Star, in these politically correct and balanced days.

 

[Danllan]

It's all selected and is just a microscopic summary of current affairs.

How can the events of our own nation be summed up in a couple of dozen stories in some rag/programme, let alone what's going on with 7.8 billion people in almost 200 countries.

In the grand scheme of things were only a mark up on being better informed than those in places like North Korea, in that they get told nothing but what's cultivated for them, and we get told a little bit more of what's fed to us to keep us thinking we're well informed because we can navigate through what we are nudged towards.

I think that underlined bit is a more of a student-radical's grabline than even approaching the truth. I don't subscribe to the conspiritorial cover-up theories. The news is out there and there are good and decent journalists - of all political views - who do report it disinterestedly.

Of course there isn't room / time or need to be 'told' everything, and I agree with your last bit that there are moves by some organisations to 'steer' us toward the 'correct' views; but we're an order of magnitude away from e.g. China, which itself is way above the likes of North Korea.

Yet, even in such places as N Korea & Iran, many, many people are well aware of their situation, they are just too terrified for themselves and their families to be able to do much, if anything, about it.

 

[teslacoils]

Private eye. But I'm questioning the value of that now.

 

[Ashtree]

Irish Farmers Journal!

 

[Hindsight]

I appreciate from the comments in this thread already very few poster on TFF have a good word or bear any belief in the output from the BBC. But, well I am sad that way and do still believe in Father Christmas, The Light Programme which was the sound backdrop to my childhood, Empire east of Aden and the More or Less programme. Some interesting observations in the first of the new series.

More or Less - Hawaiian Pizza, Obesity and a Second Wave? - BBC Sounds

Covid-19 cases are rising in the UK, is it a sign of a second wave of the virus?

www.bbc.co.uk