What is your source for news outside of your own country? Do you receive feeds directly from another country?

Question

Do you believe you are getting the whole picture?

It doesn't matter what country you live in my question is the same.

Answer 1

I'm only answering the part about the whole picture. The answer is we are not getting the whole picture. I have a story to tell. You probably don't remember the Libya crisis in 1986, but at the time I was living in Japan. A friend of ours was a ham radio operator who got his news by downloading AP and UPI news data. For a parting present to us as we set off to America
he gave us about a four inch stack of wire news on the Libya crisis (which had just happened within a few days of our leaving Japan). It was really interesting getting the reports from which the media make up their stories for publication. But more about that in a bit. Our itinerary took us from Japan to Hong Kong to Amsterdam to England (and two weeks travelling through England and Scotland) and then to the U.S. The reports which came through on TV and in the newspapers were all slanted the same no matter which country we were in.
All of them criticized America for putting civilian lives at stake with their bombing. And yet in the wire service reports the care the U.S. armed forces took to avoid hurting civilians--to avoid discharging bombs in places which could hurt civilians came through loud and clear.

My conclusion was that there were reporters out there finding out and taking down the facts in an unbiassed way but that by and large those who control the media outlets all have one way of looking at things and that is what they want to bring out.
What surprised me was that our travels took us through so many parts of the world and yet the stories were so uniform and all ignored the same parts of the wire service reports--and utterly left out any good thing which could be said for the U.S. in the matter. And there was a lot good in the wire service reports.
Pilots put themselves at risk in order to avoid hitting wrong targets.

I wish I could afford the wire services.

Answer 2

The internet. Usually organizations like the BBC. I avoid Al Jezeera. But you know I find most news is the same. Its like they all share the same stories, with the only differences being in the numerical data provided. For example, if there is a terrorist attack, one source will say 30 dead, while another says 50 dead. Other than that they all seem to be the same.

Answer 3

For starters I live in Belgium.

I watch France 2 & 3, BBC, CNN and when subtittled I also watch Al Jazeera. I also receive a handfull of daily newsletters of 4 newsgroups.

I get the broader picture, but never the whole. Too many details remain unknown, too many facts hidden and too many reports are biased. But I don't go in and fill in the blanks myself, and I consider grey-zones to be very good topics of conversations in bars or amongst friends.

Answer 4

BBC, and for a class I had to present articles from The Japan Times every week. Interesting perspective on US situations at the time.

Answer 5

Watch the BBC and the Candian Broadcast Network

Answer 6

BBC World. They have news from virtually every country in the world.

Answer 7

BBC and Air America

Answer 8

if you get feed back from a diffrent country u had a serious problem or other people far away went threw it 2

Answer 9

BBC news &internet

Answer 10

Besides the above you can go to the Irish news at: unison.ie