Which terrestrial news channel do you trust the most?

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  October 2020

  I avoid all of them now apart from our own news on STV. 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• Ferdinand2000 Posts: 537

  October 2020

  In a forced choice for News it would probably be BBC World Service Radio, something with summary broadcasts too short to get opinion inserted, or named specialist  correspondents who's personal brands I know and can evaluate.
  
  For longer form Times Radio is sounding interesting. My former MP is working for them. Not sure yet if they are too metro-centric.
  
  For straight news probably regional newspapers.
  
  

  “Rivers know this ... we will get there in the end.”
  

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• Liriodendron Posts: 8,328

  October 2020

  I used to trust the Beeb for news, and probably for straight reporting it's still ok, but some of their "correspondents" are so biased I don't see the point in listening to anything which includes editorial or comment.  I can't forget my shock, before the last election, at hearing Laura Kuensberg (BBC political editor) talking about the likelihood of Boris gaining "the victory he deserves".  Whatever my political persuasion I would have felt the same - that I could never again trust the Beeb to be impartial.
  
  Channel 4 for me too.  But with my suspicious, untrusting ears open.

  Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  October 2020

  I used to read LKs reports until I realised where her loyalties lie. I think that's when the rot set in for me😒

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• B3 Posts: 27,505

  October 2020

  I've noticed that the slant you get on the news you hear/ read very early on a Sunday morning is quite different later in the morning.  I wonder why. 

  In London. Keen but lazy.

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• Loxley Posts: 5,698

  October 2020

  I get all my news from EpicMAGAdoomlord1350 over on YouTube. Seems legit.
  
  

  "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 

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• Loxley Posts: 5,698

  October 2020

  But seriously though, Channel 4 on TV and snippets of Radio 4 in the car.

  "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 

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• Fire Posts: 19,096

  October 2020

  I don't have a TV and never watch TV news - to much BONG for me. Guardian newspaper and FT for me. Used to be also Washington Post and New York Times before they disappeared behind the paywall. The FT is restful and incisive. No yelling.
  

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• Nanny Beach Posts: 8,719

  October 2020

  Fire, what is BONG? The BBC, is the biased broadcasting company. now watch the Meredian news, for local stuff once a day on ITV (3)just to see what is going on locally.
  

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• Posy Posts: 3,601

  October 2020

  I have always been happy that both the right and the left regard the BBC as prejudiced against them but there seems little doubt that our London-based news organisations are internationalist, multicultural and global in outlook, as well as very city focussed. If that doesn't suit, there aren't many alternatives. However, we are certainly better served than many (most) other countries and the rash of conspiracy theories doing the rounds these days suggests they are more reliable than Facebook.

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