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Truman
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 Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 7:56 pm Post subject: What is your main source for news? |
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| Where do you get your news from? Print? TV? Internet? Which websites? Which networks? Which newspapers? |
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denise
Joined: 23 Apr 2003
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Location: finally home-ish
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Internet. I start with yahoo and then branch out from there.
TV--just for kicks, I try to follow the stories in Japanese. If I'm lucky, I can understand a word or two ("Ah, they said something about Iraq...") and guess from the images on the screen.
Newspaper--our school gets two English-language papers, but by the time I get to them I've seen all the news on the internet already.
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ls650
Joined: 10 May 2003
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Location: British Columbia
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 11:03 pm Post subject: Re: What is your main source for news? |
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| Truman wrote: |
| Where do you get your news from? Print? TV? Internet? Which websites? Which networks? Which newspapers? |
Almost entirely Internet.
I used to watch BBCWorld every morning, but the cable company replaced it with a local Indo channel. Another channel runs CNN Asia half the time and Cartoon Network the other half; it's hard to tell the difference.
I occasionally read the Jakarta Post, a local English language paper. |
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basiltherat
Joined: 04 Oct 2003
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| Posted: Sat Jun 05, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject: |
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I still think there's nothing to compete with BBC; TV and especially World Service radio.
regards
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guest of Japan
Joined: 28 Feb 2003
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Location: Japan
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Regular News - BBC website and New York Times Online.
Sports News - CNN/Sports Illustrated website and ESPN website.
I occasionally buy a Newsweek or a Japan Times Newspaper and I sometimes watch the translated news on NHK TV in Japan. |
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laodeng
Joined: 07 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 12:54 am Post subject: |
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| www.nytimes.com supplemented by BBC (shortwave) |
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Kent F. Kruhoeffer
Joined: 22 Jan 2003
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Location: 中国
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| Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 3:57 am Post subject: http://news.google.com |
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Dear Truman:
Try Google news. For variety of content, they're hard to beat.
http://news.google.com/
"Google News presents information culled from approximately 4,500 news sources worldwide and automatically arranged to present the most relevant news first.
Google News is highly unusual in that it offers a news service compiled solely by computer algorithms without human intervention. While the sources of the news vary in perspective and editorial approach, their selection for inclusion is done without regard to political viewpoint or ideology."
InGoogleWeTrust,
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The Great Wall of Whiner
Joined: 29 Jan 2003
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Location: Blabbing
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If I could only get BBC on the net here...
Why would China censor the BBC anyway and not CNN? |
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Gordon
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| Internet for sure. I watch the news on CBC on the net, canada.com news and tsn.ca for sports. |
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waxwing
Joined: 29 Jun 2003
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Location: China
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| Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 6:18 am Post subject: |
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| The Great Wall of Whiner wrote: |
If I could only get BBC on the net here...
Why would China censor the BBC anyway and not CNN? |
Maybe because the BBC isn't entirely craven and in the pockets of the multinational corporations who desperately want to get their hands on filthy Chinese lucre?
Just a wild stab in the dark... 
Let's all keep our fingers crossed that the licence fee stays put! |
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gugelhupf
Joined: 24 Jan 2004
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Location: Jabotabek
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| Posted: Sun Jun 06, 2004 9:09 am Post subject: |
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For world news: BBC - on the internet, Sat TV and World Service radio. If none of these are available then I listen to Deutsche Welle world service.
Also the Jakarta Post for Indonesian news. |
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Roger
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| I prefer paper to the Internet although the latter provides more than half of my daily info needs. I like the FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW and the SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST for my China-related news; as for information on Europe and Africa, LE MONDE (Paris) or SPIEGEL (Germany) are my best sources. The latter via the Internet, while the former are available in paper form (the Internet version is not free). |
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Ben Round de Bloc
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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Local news: TV and newspapers
National news: TV and newspapers
International news: Internet (Yahoo and CNN mostly)
"Back home" news: Home-city newspaper's web site . . . used to but it's been a while  |
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yaramaz
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
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Guardian Weekly, because it's the only English language newspaper here worth reading (Turkish Daily News is laughable in its journalistic skills)
Internet, because I have unlimited access here at the school, usually starting at Yahoo, but also NY Times online, Guardian online, and if I'm curiousfor a taste of home, Canada.com
My mother, who seems to have direct access to all the bombshells dropped back in Canada... |
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