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Foreign Affairs News [I'm in the US]
ronzo
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I live in the US, and am currently taking a international relations class. The begining of class we usually start off by discussing current events abroad, and that means anywhere but where i live, the US. Note that this is not for a grade, it's just something he likes to do because he doesn't appear to be able to it much outside of our classes.
My problem comes from the fact that I only really get foreign news from here, and only when it gets big enough to warrant a large deal of attention. As it stands, I get a large amount of my domestic news from blogs, sites similar to boingboing.net, and here. If you guys could suggests some good blogs, or hell, even large reliable websites (like bbc is usually better than most US new outlets), that would be rocking.
My problem comes from the fact that I only really get foreign news from here, and only when it gets big enough to warrant a large deal of attention. As it stands, I get a large amount of my domestic news from blogs, sites similar to boingboing.net, and here. If you guys could suggests some good blogs, or hell, even large reliable websites (like bbc is usually better than most US new outlets), that would be rocking.
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Also I guess http://english.aljazeera.net/ might give an alternative slant on issues, especially middle eastern ones.
Oh, and most places syndicate http://www.reuters.com/ reports anyway, so might as well go straight to the source.
www.cbc.ca is your best source for news.
Then there's always the journal Foreign Affairs. http://www.foreignaffairs.org. I highly recommend that, but they're long, in-depth articles and policy papers, not just news tidbits. However, reading an article from there would leave you far more informed than your average peer.
The Economist is also excellent. However, Szech is incorrect in that they are widely known to have a free market/pro-globalization bias in their journalism (see the Wiki page for more). I'd say this is more an editorial point of view (many newspapers have a similar slant) than a Fox News type of political pandering, though, but just keep it in mind.
True, but I can guarantee that you'll never see it outside of the editorials.
Actually? If you have evidence of misreporting I'm interested.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera#Criticism_and_controversy
Wikipedia has them criticized by some Arabic countries for being "pro-israel" and the U.S. had commended them before 9/11... at which point they were accused of being propaganda when they aired the video of Osama Bin Laden taking responsibility for the attacks.
I wasn't saying they were bent against Israel- just that I've found some of their reporting off neutral. I don't have aby big name examples of lies or anything (no Jenin, sorry :winky:), it's just a tone of slant that I take a little personally considering my background. I see it in a multitude of directions (from major news sources) and it's always struck me as particularly apparent with AlJ. I may be sensitive.
I still prefer foreign language or English language local dailies because they have editorial sections, and you can get right to the editorializing and not have to wade through their presentation of the facts. Generally, though, you should be skeptical of any news service of any nationality--don't look at it like raw information, look at it as a presentation of a point of view.