The advantage of reading foreign newspapers

Hey, I read the National Post some days. I don't like it a lot. It is very right wing. However, I found the story on Al Gore's energy consumption to be an eye opener. As you might remember I was very much taken with the movie "An Inconvenient Truth" and am still alarmed and concerned by global warming but at the same time this story rubbed off a bit of the golden shine of Al Gore. I also saw the item in less detail in another Canadian paper. Do you mean to say it was not published in the USA?

90% of what has "really" been going on in the Middle East between Israel and the Palestinians is NOT reported in the US. I first discovered this fact when I saw a BBC News program. I was appalled at what they were showing and the fact that it was not in the US news. I started doing some checking on the Internet and the reports in other countries news sites had a lot of facts that we NEVER see and hear about in the US. Then Jimmy Carter's book about the situation over there came out; a FEW of our papers started to tell about the atrocities that were being committed by Israel and the fact that more than 1/3 of the Israeli "settlements" are actually on privately owned Palestinian land that Israel seized and refuses to give up or even reimburse the real owners for! Even some of their own soldiers have protested the things they were ordered to do! The types of weapons they were ordered to use and the targets they were given. The world has repeatedly accused Israel of war crimes, genocide, and atrocities and there is documented evidence; but, the US keeps supporting Israel anyway. I am not anti-Jewish; but, I am now definately anti-Israel. Concerning Gore, no one is perfect; but, it is not 100% his fault. He has been trying to cut back on energy use; but, he is not getting a lot of support. Or haven't you been keeping up on the stories about his home problems - http://news.wired.com/dynamic/stories/G/GORE_SOLAR_PANELS?SITE=WIRE&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

So Al Gore doesn't practice what he preaches?..why am I not exactly surprised? And I've seen an interesting docu where experts said that climate change is actually down to the change in the sun's magnetic fields, which they backed up with evidence. I started a thread on it but don't think I got even one response...

Yes I see what you mean reading foreign Countries newspapers gives you a good insight I am often interested in what is happening in Israel. In Haaretz.com they have a story on a family that they have let hold a Brit Milah on the ruins of a former settlement. This is a celebration to circumcise a Jewish boy and there is a meal usually afterwards. You can learn a lot about diversity and different cultures by reading foreign newspapers. I am mainly interested in Israel though, but it would be good to read other cultures as well.

I do not rely on any single source of news or editorial perspective. Depending on what I am looking at I tend to go to the primary news sources. Some of the news and editorials I look at are: http://www.straitstimes.com/ Gives a balance view of Asia, particularly South East Asia. http://www.mercurynews.com/ A feist newspaper from San Jose, California that is slightly more ebullient than WASP newspapers like the Washington Post and New York Times http://www.hinduonnet.com/ Provides me with high quality updates about India. http://www.shanghaidaily.com/ This is an english language mouthpiece for China's Xinhua news agency and provides some level of factual reporting on China events. http://www.scmp.com/ The Hong Kong based South China Morning Post is reliable China watchers news portal. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/ I respect the views of the geriatric Toronto Globe which has a slightly more liberal view of global events, and in particular events associated with neighbouring USA. http://www.buenosairesherald.com/ The Buenos Aires Herald is a reliable reporter of events in Latin America. http://www.bbc.co.uk/ The Beeb is quite reliable for broad coverage of news from around the world. The editorial policy is fairly objective and there is very little bias on reporting. http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,4703,00.html Deusche Welle provides me with good English language analysis of pan-European events. http://www.reuters.com/home Reuters provides me with financial news updates from around the world

I had read a article about GW and Al Gore places being different already but yes you do find alot of things make the headlines or get the other half of the story that isnt shown in our papers. After the long struggle of the labor unions against the news papers in my area I find it hard to beleive they could ever be subjective one way or the other on any story. How can you respect a news paper to tell the truth when they dont even respect the people working for them. I used to hope for the on the scene reports from people on the streets to tell the real stories on places like youtube and etc but I see now that even that is subject to sensorship when it goes against the interest of certain groups. So what is the truth? If you have two people telling a different story you can probly bet on the truth being somewhere in the middle.

Actually, I started checking out foreign journalist accounts right after 911 because I guess I wanted to know if everybody hated us or not...They don't. Since I only speak and read English, I check out the BBC news and it's so like our own that I haven't really seen anything not likely to be published here. We and the Brits seem to be of one mind on most things. They don't like the war in Iraq but most of us don't either and they are British so they are always polite about it.

there is always advantage of reading the news paper but reading foreign news paper this is realy a good thing i also like to do this

Mmm newspaper is not a good source of news too. But, reading newspaper from other countries is better than reading local newspaper only, I agree with what you have suggested above. The best to do is to travel to other countries, we will find that people in other places are nice, not like newspapers described them!

Its really good to read foreign newspapers sometimes. Media in a country is usually protective about what it wants the masses to hear or see. Its like they will put a tinted glass over your eye. That is why, I never like to give comments on media reports.

We can the development of the other nations fully

yes its a good idea ; i tihkn we should all try this as it will inrcease our level of thinking.now we are just cOnfined to the views and ideas of our own and we have much less idea about what the people on the other side of the world may be thinking.