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Started by mongers, December 05, 2013, 10:35:24 PM

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Quote from: mongers on December 05, 2013, 10:35:24 PM
My question is what sort of bias and perspective do you expect your news coverage to have ?

National vs international, breaking vs long term trends, serious vs celebrity content, what mix would you choose ?

I prefer multiple biases and perspectives and get news from multiple sources.  I like roughly even balances between local, national and international.  I also like an even mix of daily stories and broader trends; but I don't much care for up to the minute breaking news since the stories are usually underdeveloped.  I sympathize with Charles Manson whenever I read celebrity news.
In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, they had five hundred years of democracy and peace—and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock