E. G. England has BBC. There's Al jazeera. They are balanced in my opinion,most of the time, and are reputable, not tabloid bs etc.
What's a source for Australian news, that are alike to them?
Where do you get your news?
What's a good Australian news source?
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My quick answer is "Any news source when it is not reporting on local news that matters to the comfortably privileged honchos in head office."
From the ABC, the most unbiased news is in 'Foreign Correspondent', followed by ABC financial or rural news
- I'm not just referring to ABC's treatment of local politics, but also its entire slant on any social news of importance to capital-city types.
From Channel News Asia (Singapore) is wonderfully informative news stories from around Asia and the World, except you can ignore its fluff stories on Singapore!
- Thankfully, not much news actually happens in Singapore. Occasionally its reporters are infected with the BBC disease, by summarising at the end with a hopelessly inane attempt at poetry which is not supported by the facts contained in the story.
From CCTV-News English (China, yes a Communist Country) you can look forward to hosts which are following the government line, but with a wide range of excellent academics from around the world (typically United States and Europe, but sometimes also Australia and the Middle East) in panel discussions which puts ABC's Q&A to shame.
The academic commentators are often entertaining, but none are trying to be comedians. There will always be an academic in Beijing, sometimes rigorously following the party-line, sometimes trying to diplomatically tell the truth in their second language (since the discussion is in English, the Beijing/Shanghai academic often has trouble getting airtime, but if that is the case the host will always give that academic the final say!). The American academic can come from the full-range of the mainstream American political spectrum, and in their brash way are often not afraid to 'stick it' at the Chinese government.
If you need to hear an Antipodean voice regularly when in China, you can look forward to former ABC News presenter Edwin Maher presenting the Chinese news bulletins occasionally! The news he presents isn't much more biased than what you hear on ABC television news now….
From News Corp, their Asian and China news is pretty good!
I'm going to come on and say the herald sun is the best paper….. Because we all need to chill and have a good laugh
I get my news from unbiased freelancers and my comedy from Tony Abbott.
Al Jazerra are pretty good in world news… I strongly suspect they're really bias when it comes to Qatar themselves.
Al J feels like what the BBC use to be
ABC News 24 is my jam.
It's not about the source; it's about one's ability to exercise coherent objectivity and strip it of political/ideological undertones. Best to keep an open mind and consume some of all to orientate in the ideological ecosystem, beyond the news itself; ie, News Corp tend to structure their media on "news" articles with social engineering intent (influenced by the right-wing think-tanks) peppered in between with stupid, brain numbing shitpieces, like Sharwood's personal opinions on shaved cats or Rusciano's articles on her itchy vag, all to diffuse the due critical thinking. Very transparent, once the pattern is understood…
that can be almost impossible when some programs present bs as facts, like channel 9 'news'. then you get into the whole truth debate, ie. what is truth? is there more than one truth?
Wikipedia main page and portals then dig into the articles for more info.
For example, Portal:Australia for Australia related news.
Can check sources for reliability. Is great for me :)Not a fan of Wikinews though :P
All tv is the same lies. Newspapers aren't any better.
I get my news from youtube once more wordly pundits have commented on them
and given their objective views on the matter.
And picked through the lies / disinfo of the news outlets.
There's plenty of sheep out there: they get their news from the tv.
While most will scorn this suggestion, those that afford it a moments contemplation will see the virtues behind suggesting it.
Try conspiracy theorist based sites.
They tend to be up to the minute updated.
They care not who they offend so call a spade a spade, shovel, implement of self extraction and anything else you desire to.
They are user submitted and paranoid about shills/government operatives salting their feeds with misinformation.
They openly discuss the virtues of their theories upon a scientific evidence base, rather than emotionally driven populist driven mainstream.
I'm not going to make any suggestions, as to avoid any calls of bias and enable you to make your own choices.