[OSL]

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2k_-8wd...creen&NR=1


I absolutely love the BBC World News countdown, particularly right after I've checked into a hotel in Singapore/HongKong/Paris, am unpacking and unwinding.....that theme and motif of the red stream of content shooting around in the sky, combined with that catchy beat....unbeatable.

There are a lot of iterations of this video and compilation on youtube. It gets my juices flowing seeing these compilations and listening to that track....makes me think about international business, language acquisition, far flung exotic places and beautiful women, and the best things about global entrepreneurship.

Sometimes I listen to one of the longer youtube tracks on loop while I"m cranking out work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RK-fTFM...re=related

I'll take BBC world news over CNN any day of the week.

Ditto FT and Economist over NYT and WSJ.

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[Jbk]

That's is an awesome feeling when you're sonewhere new in a hotel chilling and you flick on BBC news. I love CNN too!

[RichieP]

Yeah, I like BBC. CNN feels dysfunctional and yucky - they make everything so urgent and sensational. The anchors also seem like sociopaths. BBC still has some sanity and humanity to it IMO.

[solo]

(03-17-2013 07:30 PM)RichieP Wrote:  

Yeah, I like BBC. CNN feels dysfunctional and yucky - they make everything so urgent and sensational. The anchors also seem like sociopaths. BBC still has some sanity and humanity to it IMO.

The shows on CNN is one big ego show-off for its anchors. They're making a career out of pretending to be concerned with people's sufferings. It's more about the journalist than the news itself.

[DjembaDjemba]

I enjoy the level headedness of British publications like FT and The Economist. Classic liberal economics at their finest.

[qazwsx]

The Economist is by far the best magazine in the world.

Make a favour to yourself and start reading it (http://www.economist.com/) and its blogs (http://www.economist.com/blogs). There's good information and brilliant thought about lots of subjects.

[RichieP]

Economist is also amazingly well written. It's one of the best styles you could absorb for clarity and impact, if you're looking to improve your writing.

[qazwsx]

(03-20-2013 06:43 AM)RichieP Wrote:  

Economist is also amazingly well written. It's one of the best styles you could absorb for clarity and impact, if you're looking to improve your writing.

Quite so. Since I started reading The Economist I've seen huge improvements on my English - I believe it is no coincindence.

Their Style Guide is one the best guides on how to write in good English avoiding common places and simpleminded thinking. I constantly use it: http://www.economist.com/styleguide/introduction

[By the way, their Style Guide quote both George Orwell's "Politics and the English Language" and William Hazlitt's "On Familiar Style" as reference. Those are two amazing essays, indeed.

[Staros]

Lovely to hear your affection for globalism and the BBC, youngmobileglobal. I was lucky enough to tour their campus in high school, and it truly is a high class institution. Good point here too with the CNN being much more about the anchor and their personality. It shouldn't be in the forefront. Also, of course, Economist is great! I love that their articles don't drag on and gets right down to the point.

[OSL]

BBC/FT/Economist >>> CNN/WSJ/(TIME?)

What is America's answer to The Economist? NYT?

The Economist >>> NYT

Great youtube channel:

http://www.youtube.com/user/EconomistMagazine

[OSL]

Brits - do you all think Piers Morgan is a giant douchebag retard?

Is that why he is in the US instead?

In Britain, you can't get away with sounding smart just because you have a British accent.

[dk902]

Yeah Piers Morgan does not have great credibility over here in the UK.

I can't really stand to watch the BBC because the left-wing bias is horrendous in a so-called 'neutral' news outlet.

[Therapsid]

I used to enjoy the BBC. But over the years, it's bias has become all but unbearable.

It does have a left-wing bias. It's true the BBC does promote all forms of social liberalism, multiculturalism, and sexual deviance.

But it also acts as a propaganda arm to British foreign policy. Anytime the BBC reports on countries that the British government and political establishment is opposed to, its reporting will be colored and skewed against it. The BBC hyperventilates over Putin's Russia, over Third World backwaters like Zimbabwe, over Iran, and the like because the British establishment hates these governments.

Nothing better demonstrates that the BBC is a propaganda organ was its decision in 2005 to close 10 of its foreign-language radio stations in Eastern Europe and open up an Arabic TV network. The political agenda was transparent: its job was done in securing Eastern Europe after the transition from communism and now it was needed to buttress Britain's war in Iraq and America's and Israel's never-ending conflicts in the region.

[Pilgrim37]

(03-17-2013 04:07 PM)youngmobileglobal Wrote:  

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2k_-8wd...creen&NR=1


I absolutely love the BBC World News countdown, particularly right after I've checked into a hotel in Singapore/HongKong/Paris, am unpacking and unwinding.....that theme and motif of the red stream of content shooting around in the sky, combined with that catchy beat....unbeatable.

There are a lot of iterations of this video and compilation on youtube. It gets my juices flowing seeing these compilations and listening to that track....makes me think about international business, language acquisition, far flung exotic places and beautiful women, and the best things about global entrepreneurship.

Sometimes I listen to one of the longer youtube tracks on loop while I"m cranking out work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RK-fTFM...re=related

I'll take BBC world news over CNN any day of the week.

Ditto FT and Economist over NYT and WSJ.

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Listen to BBC Worldservice radio.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldserviceradio

It's Global Business programme with Peter Day is something you'll enjoy.

Also they have very good programmes on Asia

Listen while you work!

[Spirited]

If only BBC wasn't such a pile of trash

[Roadrunner]

The economist is a great magazine although it's economically liberal leanings are somewhat of a negative.

[Teutatis]

(08-03-2013 03:21 AM)SexualHarrasmentPanda Wrote:  

The economist is a great magazine although it's economically liberal leanings are somewhat of a negative.

What liberal leanings? They're not liberal nor conservative, which is a big plus for me.

The Economist is simply the best economy and world affairs magazine/newspaper in English language out there.

And yes, BBC news is way better than CNN. Actually are people still watching CNN these days?

[qazwsx]

(08-04-2013 11:12 AM)Teutatis Wrote:  

And yes, BBC news is way better than CNN. Actually are people still watching CNN these days?

Neither. It may not seem true, but Al-Jazeera (at least the UK version) is in my opinion by far the best TV news channel nowadays. They tick almost every box of what great journalism is.

And even RT (Russian Today) in the international version available in UK is better. They have very direct, concise journalism not imprisoned by political correctness. I feel much better informed of what is going in the world through them than through any anglophone channel. (Even in interviews to Russian officials like Putin or Medvedev their journalists are not afraid of asking very direct and fearless shrewd questions)

So my personal ranking of news channels is this:
1st: Al-Jazeera
2nd: RT
3rd: BBC News

[Teutatis]

(08-04-2013 11:59 AM)qazwsx Wrote:  

(08-04-2013 11:12 AM)Teutatis Wrote:  

And yes, BBC news is way better than CNN. Actually are people still watching CNN these days?

Neither. It may not seem true, but Al-Jazeera (at least the UK version) is in my opinion by far the best TV news channel nowadays. They tick almost every box of what great journalism is.

And even RT (Russian Today) in the international version available in UK is better. They have very direct, concise journalism not imprisoned by political correctness. I feel much better informed of what is going in the world through them than through any anglophone channel. (Even in interviews to Russian officials like Putin or Medvedev their journalists are not afraid of asking very direct and fearless shrewd questions)

So my personal ranking of news channels is this:
1st: Al-Jazeera
2nd: RT
3rd: BBC News

I agree, Al-Jazeera can be very good. Never watched RT though, I'll have to give it a try.

[Akula]

(08-04-2013 11:12 AM)Teutatis Wrote:  

(08-03-2013 03:21 AM)SexualHarrasmentPanda Wrote:  

The economist is a great magazine although it's economically liberal leanings are somewhat of a negative.

What liberal leanings? They're not liberal nor conservative, which is a big plus for me.

The Economist is simply the best economy and world affairs magazine/newspaper in English language out there.

And yes, BBC news is way better than CNN. Actually are people still watching CNN these days?

It depends on the topic, but I think the Economist has often has a left-wing economic tint to it on certain issues, although it's nothing compared to most of the other UK and American mainstream media outlets. By that I mean, for example, it's pro-immigration, pushes Global Warming themes, often has a 'progressive' social leanings & unrealistically pushes 'democratic values' as a cure-all for everything.

But by the same token, as the Guardian pointed out, "its writers rarely see a political or economic problem that cannot be solved by the trusted three-card trick of privatisation, deregulation and liberalisation." So there's also an underlying bias toward pure capitalism.

Andrew Sullivan did a dressing down of the Economist a few years ago where he addressed how he thought it was sort of a watered down "Reader's Digest" version of political reporting geared towards corporate Americans and other readers.

From Wikipedia:

"In 1999, Andrew Sullivan complained in the New Republic that it uses "marketing genius" to make up for deficiencies in analysis and original reporting, resulting in "a kind of Reader's Digest"[76] for America's corporate elite.[77] While Sullivan did acknowledge that the magazine's claim about the dotcom bursting would probably be accurate in the long run,[76] the bubble would not burst in the US market until 2001.[78] Sullivan also pointed out that the magazine greatly exaggerated the danger the US economy was in after the Dow Jones fell to 7,400 during the 1998 Labor Day weekend and noted that the magazine's claim that the US economy was at a high risk of entering a recession was far from clear.[76] He also said that The Economist is editorially constrained because so many scribes graduated from the same college at Oxford University, Magdalen College,[76] which he described as "a somewhat ineffective system for correcting internal flaws in a global magazine."[76]

Still think it's a good magazine though.