Thread: The news!

Originally Posted by fpessanha

So... do you watch the news on TV? Do you trust what they tell you? What other sources of information do you have?

In the UK the BBC TV and radio news is generally fairly reliable. Although Margaret Thatcher did once describe the BBC as Buggers Broadcasting Communism.
The newspapers are another matter entirely, as we are seeing from the ongoing Leveson enquiry. There is rot that goes right to the core of UK print journalism. In fairness, the reason much of the news is bad is because............. it's bad.
Most of the older industrialised nations appear to have been living above their means for years.
How countries like Greece are going to survive, with no real industrial base and only tourism to generate wealth, I've no idea.
The only way to get some idea of what is happening is to read a lot of different journals such as 'The Economist' and similar publications and try to get a balanced view. In the end all news is slanted or 'spun' to some degree.
A long time ago someone said: "If you give a million monkeys, a million typewriters, for a million years they'd come up with the works of Shakespeare" when what you actually get is: The Internet.