As I’ve stopped watching the #BiasedBroadcastCoy and find ITV and Channel 4 to be regurgitating pretty much the same material, so I’ve been searching around for a more impartial source of news … one that doesn’t send me lurching for the off button within seconds of turning it on.
This week I found an interesting channel called “UKColumn” on Youtube which on the day I found it seemed to be really good – as the day I looked they had a lead article on climate:
However, since then I’ve tried watching them and I find myself falling asleep as they have a very slow delivery for a massive 40-50minuts, it’s entertaining for a bit but all I’m really doing is replacing biased BBC opinions for ones biased against them with a very slow delivery of only 4-5 “news” articles a day.
Also, it doesn’t in any way cover anything in Scotland.
So I was trying to work out what it would take to produce news for Scotland. My guess is that even a very quick summary would take several hours. But the first problem is identifying what is “news”. So, today’s exercise is to identify the items that may be considered news today:
- UK Supreme court – the ongoing case.
- Trump appointment of EPA – the implications for global warming alarmism
- Scottish “Curriculum for excellence” failing – the way yet more political interference is destroying our education system in Scotland
- Facial reconstruction of Robert the Bruce:
- Death of Mark Griffin MSP – not that I know anything more than he died.
- Child abusers in sport – coming up a lot
- Late trains – Labour in Scotland have been running a campaign
- £13.6 million to establish new Wellcome Research Centre
This is an interesting Video:
PLEASE ADD ANY CURRENT NEWS STORIES (not necessarily Scottish, British or even in English)
One news format that works for me is The Wright Stuff. Or was. Since before the national election last year the leftiness has taken over and post Brexit and Trump, it’s unwatchable.
The premise was that several interesting topics were discussed daily (possibly too many because good discussions got cut short but it did leave you wanting more). Part way through the panel read news items of interest from the papers and have mini debates about those more immediate issues. Obviously the prog has celebs (which partly explains the left bias) but I’m not sure that they’re essential, other than as talkative adults. There is also a phone in element but while it opens the debate up to more views, it isn’t essential to the flow of the programme.
As a format it allows a deeper exploration of the stories but in a natural way, not lecturing. If the guests do a bit of research or are already familiar with the issues, it helps. To a certain extent the blogs do the same thing but slightly less accessably. There’s a market for a news channel that isn’t left of centre.
Thanks. Obviously what I really want is something I can just switch on whenever I like and get intelligent material like the BBC – but with none of their biases. And if I had a spare £10,000,000 that might be possible.
So, my current thinking is “what would it take to produce a 5-10min news” … downloadable from YouTube?
It’s been interesting – because looking for reliable sources of news, I find myself going to all the same outlets which are so biased: politicians, papers, universities, political parties. And the reason is obvious: they are trying to promote something and therefore create “fake news” as a means to create a story to sell their propaganda.
I can’t create news – all I would be able to do is to filter the available news to promote those I think are worthwhile hearing, and demote the rest.
completely off topic, but have you noticed the remarkable swarm of earthquakes in the last 36 hours near Kirakira in the Solomon Islands? Is it the caterpillar? http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/
Interesting question. Any temperature change over the last 100 years, is likely to have penetrated around 100m. That doesn’t sound a lot, but because rock is relatively incompressible, and easily cracks, that expansion could behave like a small “wedge” in a massive crack and could have cause significant crustal movement … but if the rock behaves plasticly then it may not.
However, the heating coming out of the the last ice-age 10,000 years ago will have penetrated around 1km into the crust. This is the lowest temperature portion – and presumably most rigid.
Its a bit off topic but you may find this Brandon Smith article interesting ( as I do).
‘They are doing this in preparation for the final stage of an economic collapse they have been gestating since at least 2008. They are doing this because their goal is to set us up as scapegoats for a global disaster that will be remembered for centuries to come. I was able to predict the success of the Brexit Referendum, Donald Trump’s election win and the latest Federal Reserve rate hike based on this theory and I believe it will continue to prove itself.’
‘The end game here is to destroy the underlying principles of liberty movements; to make future generations reel in horror at the very mention of conservatives and national sovereignty. The elites are playing a very complex strategy of fourth-generation warfare.’
‘I predict, in fact, that conservatives are being given enough rope to hang themselves with. I predict that Trump will utilize this legislation to go after the mainstream media, not the alternative media, and that many conservatives will support him even though questions of constitutionality will increase.’
http://www.alt-market.com/articles/3085-what-is-the-real-purpose-behind-qfake-newsq-propaganda
I’ve come to realise that many of the things that are told to be “conspiracy theories” almost certainly are put out onto the internet by governments and other like minded people in order to try to hide the truth in a blizzard of dross.
So, 911 … almost everything we are told is fake news … but in there somewhere I have a very strong suspicion is some real news that few take seriously because of the dross.
Likewise, one of the techniques I now see being used to try to undermine real stories about real concerns … is to bury them in fake news.
And yes, there are people inventing fake news to harm one side, but they are being “help” by those inventing stories too bizarre to be believed by the other so as to discredit the real stories as “fake news”.
And no doubt – as people come to recognise how “fake news” is being used to discredit people …. and they start reacting against those who create such fake news …. the other side will will then create fake fake news.
Yeah, the “conspiracy theories” label is a ‘though stopper’, something a bit taboo, that no well indoctrinate person should look at. Similar to ‘climate change deniers’. Even for me it took time to realize it. But now we have the internet and it is really powerful 🙂