Politics

[DieJager]

Thus, in the English language, Europeans have been essentially propagandized by the American left for a decade.

Even in Europe everyone knows CNN is garbage except the older generations who still trust the "news". For a balanced view you really need multiple sources. For that I look to CitizenFreePress and RealClearPolitics as well as X. You cannot rely on one source these days.

 

[Red Leg]

Are there any regular news outlets you would recommend instead?

Exactly one. Most of Fox's evening programing in relentlessly right leaning, even Trump fawning editorialism. However, Bret Baer hosts the evening news program. While it leans right of center, I find it far and away the most thorough pure news option in this country. It is one reason virtually every European Prime Minister accepts an interview on that program when visiting the White House.

That said, there are no unbiased sources of information. None. I subscribe to the on line NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and NY Post along with a number of purely political news sites. Somewhere in the middle of all that is something approaching truth.

 

[DieJager]

@KJE81

I’ve used this news aggregator for years:

CITIZEN FREE PRESS

The Greatest News Site On The Internet. Home of CFP Nation.

citizenfreepress.com

This and RealClearPolitics is good. As was Drudge in the old days.

 

[KJE81]

Exactly one. Most of Fox's evening programing in relentlessly right leaning, even Trump fawning editorialism. However, Bret Baer hosts the evening news program. While it leans right of center, I find it far and away the most thorough pure news option in this country. It is one reason virtually every European Prime Minister accepts an interview on that program when visiting the White House.

That said, there are no unbiased sources of information. None. I subscribe to the on line NY Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and NY Post along with a number of purely political news sites. Somewhere in the middle of all that is something approaching truth.

Thank you, I used to subscribe to NY Times before but quit that one after the election last year (subscribed to follow the election year basically), how do you feel about Politico? It seems to be quite good at least on the EU side, www.politico.eu

 

[Betterinthebush]

This and RealClearPolitics is good. As was Drudge in the old days.

Yea, but I miss the old platform where there was a daily thread for users to comment and share other gray-web sources.

 

[mdwest]

I find politico in the US to be reasonably reliable at presenting facts..

But they are clearly left leaning… the facts they present, far more often than not only support the left side of an argument… they will purposefully not report facts if they support a right leaning ideal..

 

[Red Leg]

Interesting, if somewhat overwrought, view of the current global situation from a British conservative position.

 

[Red Leg]

Thank you, I used to subscribe to NY Times before but quit that one after the election last year (subscribed to follow the election year basically), how do you feel about Politico? It seems to be quite good at least on the EU side, www.politico.eu

I would agree with @mdwest with respect to Politico. It is a tab on this device.

The NY Times is terrible and the Washington Post is worse on political and cultural issues. But how else does one understand the confirmation bias of the left?

 

[mdwest]

Even in Europe everyone knows CNN is garbage except the older generations who still trust the "news". For a balanced view you really need multiple sources. For that I look to CitizenFreePress and RealClearPolitics as well as X. You cannot rely on one source these days.

It will be interesting to see what happens with CNN over the next 12 months..

The new owner is not only politically hard right, but he and his father are also fairly staunch Trump supporters…

I’d prefer if they just stopped all the garbage opinion pieces and purposeful negative chicken little (the sky is falling!) reporting and just gave the world the truth…

But I have a feeling that as soon as the deal is inked and ownership officially changes hands that there is going to be a house cleaning globally and it may well start to try yo compete with Fox for the right wing audience..

 

[Red Leg]

It will be interesting to see what happens with CNN over the next 12 months..

The new owner is not only politically hard right, but he and his father are also fairly staunch Trump supporters…

I’d prefer if they just stopped all the garbage opinion pieces and purposeful negative chicken little (the sky is falling!) reporting and just gave the world the truth…

But I have a feeling that as soon as the deal is inked and ownership officially changes hands that there is going to be a house cleaning globally and it may well start to try yo compete with Fox for the right wing audience..

It is a very open target market - and a well off one.

 

[Russ16]

Whenever I go abroad, I am so despondent when I realize the average informed European, who tries to follow some English news content, only sees CNN international. Even supposedly moderate raters of our news services consider CNN left of center in a more normal political climate. For the last decade it has prosecuted an unrelenting campaign against Donald Trump and by extension the Republican party.

As a network, it has terrible viewership in this country. Its evening programing averages a 797,000 individuals, and that is after a 54% INCREASE in Q1 of this year (ADWEEK stats). To remind, that is in a nation of nearly 350 million people. Moreover, the Pew, Media, and Shorenstein Research centers all report CNN's coverage of the President to be unrelentingly negative. Over the last decade, 90+% of that coverage has been negative. And it has been almost as bad in the other major English language option. During the same period 74% of the BBC's coverage of Trump has been negative.

Thus, in the English language, Europeans have been essentially propagandized by the American left for a decade.

For instance, this paragraph in the article you quoted is pure editorialism.

This is not how the American system of checks and balances and divided power is supposed to work. For many hours, a president who believes he has unrestrained authority was credibly believed to be on the verge of killing millions of foreign civilians in a war for which he sought no congressional authorization; which has been plagued by vague, contradictory rationales; and for which he has no apparent exit strategy.

This is exactly how our foreign policy, under Democrat and Republican presidents has worked since our last declaration of war in December 1941. Yes, sometimes with the cover of a UN resolution, but more typically under the War Powers Act, which if pinned to the floor with a pistol to his head, even Chuck Schumer would be forced to admit the administration has complied.

And if anyone really thinks we were about to use nuclear weapons, they have lost their minds.

I don't disagree with the source. But I'm also always interested to see that the average European has more awareness of a wider variety of global issues than the average American. Their media (biased as all media is) covers more world events than the media that the average American consumes. Just look at the inability of the average American to name prominent foreign leaders or even find major countries on a map.

There is no unbiased media. I try to intentionally consume media of different viewpoints, especially those that challenge my instinctual beliefs. I regularly consume several podcasts hosted by people on the other side of the spectrum and I often learn something. These aren't the screaming about whatever the hot topic type podcasts but rather more thoughtful and measured content featuring debate about policy solutions.

 

[Big_Easy]

My entire point was that the screaming Harpies on the left are never happy with anything a Republican President does.

They tune in to their favorite leftist news, get the latest buzz words and talking points, and go forth equipped with a bad case of cluster B personality disorders to dispense large amounts of what Harry Truman called "Fertilizer".

Projection much? I seem to recall the “screaming harpies” on the right always complaining about anything Joe Biden and Obama did……right-wingers watching Faux news during Biden…war bad!!! Biden bad!!! Trump is the peace president…kamala will send your sons to die in a war!

…Right-wingers now….War good! Trump good! 15 dead Americans are acceptable loses…short term pain, long term gain, people need to sacrifice like we did during WWII. Where was that mentality during Bidens admin buddy. Whats the next Faux news download going to be?

 

[Brent in Az]

Biden sticks to Trumps withdrawal deadline from George W Bush's and the Republican Neo-Con's war in Afghanistan and it's somehow his fault that people died? At least he had the balls to actually get us out of there, something Trump couldn't even do his first time around. And yet you don't seem to have the same disdain for Trump getting 15 American's killed in his unconstituional war of choice in Iran thus far...hypocrite much?

And don't forget about all the future lives that will be saved from the terrorist state of Iran and it's proxies, by their destruction.
We all know that the Democrats and their flying monkey constituents support the terrorist states.
You all love terrorists, and hate America and it's middle eastern allies.
I'm surprised you don't have an Iranian flag as your avatar, like many of the leftist goons on social media do.

 

[Russ16]

Thank you, I used to subscribe to NY Times before but quit that one after the election last year (subscribed to follow the election year basically), how do you feel about Politico? It seems to be quite good at least on the EU side, www.politico.eu

Politico UK is quite good and seems less biased than the US version. Here in the US is is fairly decent. Subscribing to their issue specific newsletters is worthwhile. I read Politco Energy, Agriculture, and Playbook every morning.

 

[Brent in Az]

Projection much? I seem to recall the “screaming harpies” on the right always complaining about anything Joe Biden and Obama did……right-wingers watching Faux news during Biden…war bad!!! Biden bad!!! Trump is the peace president…kamala will send your sons to die in a war!

…Right-wingers now….War good! Trump good! 15 dead Americans are acceptable loses…short term pain, long term gain, people need to sacrifice like we did during WWII. Where was that mentality during Bidens admin buddy. Whats the next Faux news download going to be?

Deflect and blame. Straight out of the Democrat playbook by you leftist lemmings.

 

[Tanks]

I am not sure Down Under has a lot to talk about this evening.

Ben Roberts-Smith in custody at Silverwater jail after war crimes charges

One of Australia's most decorated soldiers, Ben Roberts-Smith, has been charged with five counts of the war crime of murder.

www.abc.net.au

From that article:

Mr Barnett said it was a "challenge" that investigators could not physically enter Afghanistan to investigate the claims against Mr Roberts-Smith.

"So the challenge for investigators is that because we can't go to that country, we don't have access to the crime scene," he said.

"We don't have photographs, site plans, measurements, the recovery of projectiles, blood spatter analysis, all of those things we would normally get at a crime scene.

"If you add to that that we don't have access to the deceased, there's no post-mortem. Therefore, there's no official cause of death."

So, basically he is charged with people dying during war.

 

[mdwest]

I don't disagree with the source. But I'm also always interested to see that the average European has more awareness of a wider variety of global issues than the average American. Their media (biased as all media is) covers more world events than the media that the average American consumes. Just look at the inability of the average American to name prominent foreign leaders or even find major countries on a map.

Thats a result of the average European country being about the same size and population as many US states..

Get a typical Frenchman to name 5 of the 18 provencial governors in France...Most wont be able to do it.. Good luck getting him to name any of the 50 Spanish provencial governors next door..

Your typical American will know the names of a handful of state governors though...

A guy in Oklahoma will be fairly well aware of whats going on in Kansas, Texas, Arkansas, Colorado, etc.. and will at least be marginally aware of things happening in Seattle, Miami, and New York (theres almost 1500 miles between NYC and OKC.. which is roughly the same distance from Madrid to Warsaw)..

Then you have the impact factor..

The truth is.. the impact of something like the Straits of Hormuz Europe is significantly greater than the impact on the US.. the impact of Middle East mass migration is significantly greater to Europe than it is the US.. the impact of Chinas growing economy is greater on Europe than it is on the US.... So natually they are paying more attention..

The typical American doesnt feel much immediate impact even on matters where the US is directly involved... the guy working at the local jiffy lube or home depot didnt notice anything changing at all when we snatched Maduro in the middle of the night... but the impact on the global economy and global oil trade was pretty significant for others..

The problem is "european awareness" is dominated by their liberal politicians and their liberal media sources.. so.. they get 1/2 the story.. and tend to believe it.. their awareness is limited and biased.. and while they will wail and moan about the problems and impact on europe by things like mass middle eastern migration, NATO not being able to sustain a Russian attack without the US answering the call on Article 5, the straits of hormuz being locked up, etc.. they dont appear to be willing (or perhaps able) to anaylze ALL of the actual facts (largely I would guess because they arent getting them easily from the media and their politicians and would have to actually work to get them) and come to non liberal biased conclusions..

 

[Red Leg]

From that article:


So, basically he is charged with people dying during war.

Absolutely ridiculous. But I am sure the government, the prosecution, and the woke Australian left are wallowing in their collective virtue.

Awarded the Victoria Cross.

 

[Wishfulthinker580]

From that article:


So, basically he is charged with people dying during war.

Absolutely incredible.

 

[Killingtime]

I think you should tell this to your doctor, medical scientist , civil ing. etc. But you don`t know such persons I guess.

Sure I know quite a few doctors and some engineers. I don’t believe you need to go to college to learn any of the jobs you mentioned if your autodidactic. A common concern in the medical profession is that by the time most doctors finish med school most of what they learned is considered outdated so you have to constantly be willing to self study to keep up to date.

Now since you seem to sound condescending let’s examine the part where I said exceptional people.

Albert Einstein dropped out of polytechnic.
Henry ford no formal education in engineering.
Richard Branson one of the greatest entrepreneurs of all time made the virgin group dropped out of school at 16. Seeing as to how he designed air and space companies I’d say he has some knowledge of engineering.

Thomas Edison, Michael dell(dell computer), Ben Franklin, tim berners-lee (created the the worldwide web), there are literally 1000’s of software engineers working or have created the systems that you use that have no degree or formal education.

Now you mentioned civil so let’s see
John roebling built the Brooklyn bridge. Interesting
He had hands on training and no formal education from a university and yet be built a pretty famous bridge.

George Stephenson (father of railways)

Benjamin wright (Erie Canal )
Thomas Telford (colossus of roads)(menai suspension bridge)
Eiffel gustave went to school for art and used hands on experience to build the tower.
Isambard kingdom Brunel ( great eastern ship, great western railway and multiple bridges in Britain. I highly encourage you to pick up a few books from your local library or from online on some of the individuals I named they are quite fascinating