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Where do you find most of your news?

In my political science classes, there are students who are just SO up to date with the news and I'm just sitting there wondering where they're getting their information from because they're so well-versed, mashallah. Any tips?
 
Beardo said:
Where do you find most of your news?

In my political science classes, there are students who are just SO up to date with the news and I'm just sitting there wondering where they're getting their information from because they're so well-versed, mashallah. Any tips?
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Asslamu Aliakum,

It does help to be interested in the subject. I do believe it is important to learn history and then keep up to date with the news. I get my information from documentaries, articles, debates, mainstream media and books.

Here are some interesting books:

1. Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler by Professor Antony C Sutton
2. Wall Street and the Bolshevik revolution by Professor Anthony C Sutton
3. The Grand Chessboard by Former National Security Adviser to the Carter Administration Zbigniew Brzezinski
4. Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt

For the mainstream media, it is important to get as many views as possible. I tend to get information from the BBC, CNN, Fox News, Al Jazeera, Press TV, RT News, France 24 news, Democracy Now, Real News Network and so on. You will begin to compare and contrast different views and see which are more reliable.

I tend to watch documentaries from VPROinternational, Al Jazeera and the BBC.

As for articles, my fav website is IPS (Inter Press Service)

Listen to lectures too from people like Noam Chomsky, Anthony C Sutton, Deepa Kumar, Michael Scheuer and so on...
 
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Beardo said:
In my political science classes, there are students who are just SO up to date with the news and I'm just sitting there wondering where they're getting their information from because they're so well-versed, mashallah. Any tips?
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Activists like those students always watch and collect news from every source, and they are always share those news with other activists in their network. And also they have links to reporters/journalists.
 
Beardo said:
Where do you find most of your news?

In my political science classes, there are students who are just SO up to date with the news and I'm just sitting there wondering where they're getting their information from because they're so well-versed, mashallah. Any tips?
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lol Have you tried this:

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=News
 
Thru comparative research... and even then, I don't like to form an opinion, unless I am convinced that I have been fair in my comparison and am convinced by what I believe to be the case.

I am also prepared to be "wrong".
 
Twitter

If you follow some of the big news channels/papers they usually give short tweets with a link to the main story which is good. I havent been on in ages though, Im not very up to date with the news, just randomly watch BBC, Sky news, Press TV and al Jazeera.
 
Google News gives you loads of news stories (or any you search for) from loads of sources.
 
I don't like news/media since they are all owned by the big companies/rich/zionists. Altough i find some sources from Presstv a iranian news channel.
 
Boaz said:
Go to al-Jazeera English. Only news station that doesn't report inane bull****
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Al Jazeera is reuters affiliated, and therefore biased. It employs a methodology with regard to social engineering which, when watched - separates the moderates form the radicals and therefore, allowing them estimate the dangers presented by the inhabitants of that country...

...It is very subtle, very clever, and full of bias - just like all news channels all over the world. Every single one. You want the truth? talk to the locals of said area... don't rely on media hype. I used to work in media. I know it well.

What do news channels hope to do? they hope to let you be indoctrinated by your own choosing, so you may form an opinion which they help to propagate...

This is a bias, a one eyed view of events. You will form opinion, and they work to let you form a misinformed opinion. That's the cold harsh truth.
 
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Define BS.

The thing with the news (even Al-Jazeera) is that it gives you half truths. That can be viewed as a bias, or as BS - either way it doesn't change the fact that it only reports a half truth.

If you want the whole truth, for even one isolated incident reported on the news - you'd have a tough time trying to find all the comparative avenues of study.
 
Scimitar said:
Define BS.

The thing with the news (even Al-Jazeera) is that it gives you half truths. That can be viewed as a bias, or as BS - either way it doesn't change the fact that it only reports a half truth.

If you want the whole truth, for even one isolated incident reported on the news - you'd have a tough time trying to find all the comparative avenues of study.
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Salaam,

I think Boaz means that Al Jazeera is mature than compared to Fox news where everyone screams at each other and at their guests. If Al-Jazeera is biased (which it can be at times), it must be very subtle, because I have not spotted such bias.
 
Maybe you haven't, granted. However, the bias / BS therein, is very subtle, like you have mentioned above me. It does exist, and it does serve to rile up the anger and hatred for the west.

Before Al Jazeera was reuters owned, it was probably the only news broadcaster in the world that threw out news - raw - unedited and without political agenda thrown in to vie for your opinion. Guess when it got reuters owned?

Gah, let me tell you. Shortly after 9/11 Al Jazeera was taken down because of political pressure. It then re-emerged close to year later as reuters affiliated. And that's when the bias, and clever trickery kicked in. Don't believe me? Go check it yourself bro.

Al Jazeera was the last stronghold of unbiased news broadcasting in the world circa 9/11... it fell from grace when it re-emerged as reuters affiliated. Sadly, the people of the Arabian sub-continent fail to realise the importance of the fitna, reuters brings... and that is what gets my goat about it all.

Wassalaam
 
Okay, does al-Jazeera report on the personal lives of celebrities for days on end? Look what happened when Anna Nichole Smith and Michael Jackson died. All the American news stations were going on and on and on about it for weeks.
 
Is Anna Nicole Smith and Michael Jackson part of Arabian culture? No. So why would they... strange logic you bring here Boaz.
 
No, you're just not getting what I'm trying to say. The reporting on the celebrities personal lives the the US media does instead of the bigger things going on in the world is the BS I'm talking about.