Wanted : A Better Quality of Fake News

[Viking01]

Afternoon,
I'm actually after a small favour from some of you here on KiwiBiker. And No, it won't cost you anything.
Other than a few minutes of your time. And Yes, it is a serious request.

While my background is Science / Engineering / IT, I've always had a keen interest in both politics and
history. So I have spent quite a bit of time over the past years reading in these areas. Yes, I know,
get a life ....

Anyway, my Earth was recently shaken after Donald told me that all news on the Web is fake news, and
that many of the current affairs news websites that I do read are probably full of Russian propaganda.

Admittedly, I'd didn't get that off his Twitter feed ... but maybe it's true. Maybe CNN isn't telling
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

So I thought that I'd get in contact with my friends on KiwiBiker (of whom I have none), and try and
find out what news sites they read to get their fill of current affairs (both local and international news).


The sensible ones among you probably spare yourself the agony, avoid reading too much of what passes
for news these days, and spend your time on more important tasks (like building and riding motorcycles,
or spending time with the family).

However, if there are a few of you that do spend some time online browsing various websites for current
affairs news (mainly international news), I'd be interested in hearing of any news websites you might have
found to be fairly comprehensive and with some degree of balance (and possibly even truth).


I'm not interested in your politics (be it left / centre / right) as everyone is free to their opinion (even Cassina,
as long as he / she doesn't tell me how to ride a motorcycle).

I appreciate that reply might expose you to feedback from your fellow bikers (or the interest of the GCSB).
So if you're willing to take the risk, I'd be interested in your reply.

But if you're really shy, you can always just PM me.

Thanks in advance. And just to confirm, that's current affairs news sites, not porn sites ....

Cheers

[TheDemonLord]

pornhub.com/redtube.com

At least you can be sure about who they are screwing...



And they tend to be more factually accurate and with greater integrity...

[EJK]

Stuff.co.nz

Fairfax is unprejudical and unbiased. 100% reliable.

[gsxr]

Stuff.co.nz

Fairfax is unprejudical and unbiased. 100% reliable.

That should be on the joke thread

[Voltaire]

ADV CSM, they guy with the Putin avatar seems to know whats going on.

[EJK]

That should be on the joke thread

Don't forget Huffington Post.

[ellipsis]

...I make up my own, it suits me better and it is far more positive than the absolute shit that is fed to everyone, whatever shit they choose to read...or Beano...

[pritch]

The Guardian, The Independent, The Washington Post. The latter now has a paywall but it is not currently much of one.
The Times is apparently Britains biggest paper but I haven't used it much. There's also "The Scotsman" which will send a daily email with links to stories.

The Telegraph leans rather further to the right but has a better paywall so will limit the number of items you can read unless you cough up.

There is a Brit email called "The Spoon" which links to news items that the journos behind the email consider are worth reading.

The Intercept is an independent source of news. There is an associated podcast: "Intercepted" which is fairly new but interesting.

Another podcast worth a listen is The Drycleaner Cast which deals with terrorism related topics.

I use Twitter as a news source as there are often links to interesting magazine items in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The Spectator, etc.

For marginally unhinged right wing views there is Brietbart. For the completely unhinged there is Info Wars. Both the latter are watched by Trump which explains a lot.

I stopped reading the Huffington Post, so many news sources, so little time.

[TheDemonLord]

Also, The Onion.

[jasonu]

...I make up my own, it suits me better and it is far more positive than the absolute shit that is fed to everyone, whatever shit they choose to read...or Beano...

Prolly more accurate than the mainstream media outlets too.

[caspernz]

The main reason why I can still tolerate fake news is for the amusement value. Same as when you hear some gullible hick still falling for the Microsoft support call from India or Pakistan...you have to wonder whether those who fall for this were born without a BS detector?!

In day to day life news comes at us from all sources, one learns to take it with a grain of salt. And when it's "breaking news" it usually means lots of errors, they just had to be the first to sling it at us. Maybe I'm getting slightly cynical in my middle aged years, but news is less interesting/important to me as I age. So fake or real, give it a day or two and the full story will come to the fore, and even then it only matters if it effects myself or those within my circle of concern.

The best fake news is probably that anything more than 4 km/h over the open road limit is criminal...

[pete376403]

truth-out.org , readersupportednews.org - both would be considered left-leaning

[GazzaH]

The Washington Post and NY Times have good journalism for my purposes. No idea whether they are entirely truthful and unbiased, though I doubt it.

The BBC is OKish, along with TVNZ.

Many years ago, I used to compare Radio Moscow and Voice of America's very different coverage of the same world events. Since then I've remained very cynical about news reporting in general.

But 7 Days beats the lot hands-down

[oldrider]

America and her Western associates are kindly injecting destabilisation programs and activities to help Venezuela not get ahead of themselves! (Fake enough?)

Despite interference and biased international media reporting (fake news?) Venezuela still claims to be making progress in the governing of "their" country!

Is this what you are looking for?

[Hugo Nougo]

http://www.thecivilian.co.nz