Impartial media?

Highnoon

Was wondering which channels or papers you read with the expectation of getting an impartial (as much as can be expected) view of whats going on in the world, in particular Afghanistan.

How do you think the Irish media rates in all this. (I myself watch Channel 4 for news on the war, Sky News just wrecks my head).

I seem to remember someting from the last week or so about the government giving out about RTE coverage because in it Osama etc is referred to as a Dissident and not a Terrorist.

Are there any sites that have this kind of stuff on Irish media?

chernobyl

The only way to get truely impartial coverage is to get the wild feeds that CNN/Fox/Sky use to uplink their news to the satellites.


Basically you get unedited coverage and even during the breaks you can watch and listen to the broadcasters discussing the stuff themselves.(even with other networks)

[ Also=Often the coverage is far higher quality the the end product..like 800 lines broadcasted.]

daveirl

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chernobyl

Well you need the equipment (duh ) and it also helps if you know which Satellite Transponders Fox/CNN rent but as they are generally "Wild Feeds" the Transponders are only leased hours before the transmission begins so lots of Sat scanning is needed (ie)lots of your time.

Aspro

Originally posted by chernobylThe only way to get truely impartial coverage is to get the wild feeds that CNN/Fox/Sky use to uplink their news to the satellites.

That seems like far too much trouble just to get basic information - which is our right. But no surprises there, considering that the bulk of world news is controlled by Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner and a few others.

As George Orwell said, we are given the "illusion of objectivity" but we're really just fed with variations on the same line from the "Ministry of Truth".

Only a few decent journalists like John Pilger, Robert Fisk and film-makers like Ken Loach break the mould and dig beneath the surface but because of the monopoly of the aforementioned tycoons we suffer a market-imposed censorship that most don't even realise.

Baz_

as regards the title of this thread "impartial media" I would just like to say

hahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahahahahahhahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is not now, never was, and possibly never will be any such thing as impartial media

Clintons Cat

try up til recently they tended to present both sides of the story.
Youll find lots of intresting stuff in the archives long before it hits the western media
afgan radio
also try using a search engine to search out useful key names and phrases you pick up in the media.

CiaranC

http://www.indymedia.org can be quite good.

Chaos-Engine

I read this report last week from a Yugoslavian Journalist about US and the Western media companies.... And how SUPER biased they are... Very excellent example to what the US does to oppositions news firms(biased or not)...
PLEASE ALL READ ... YOU WILL LOVE IT

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=11880