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This is a very interesting topic, thanks to whoever started it.

I'm a journalist and spent most of my university degree studying the media and how it works.

I've worked in commercial TV newsrooms in Australia and also for large print media groups.

I can honestly say, from experience and through research, I would not watch a major commercial TV network to get news of any real worth. The constraints on TV reporters are quite restrictive. And often the influence from above means you are often getting an agenda driven package that is designed to entertain viewers as much as inform them.

This is particularly obvious with services like Fox News or any Murdoch media outlet for that matter.

Not all government owned news services are agenda driven. In fact in Australia, both govt owned ABC and SBS networks are quite independent of the Government in their news coverage. I would regard them as the benchmark of TV reporting as far as fair and balanced reporting is concerned. But I take the point that whoever controls funding will invariably have some influence on the end product.

With regards to war reporting I would be extremely sceptical of the mainstream media here. Embedded journalism is nothing more than a government propaganda tool used to influence public perception. It was introduced after Vietnam for obvious reasons.

I get my news locally from the Sydney Morning Herald, ABC and SBS. Overseas I get it from SBS (which is a world news provider), The Guardian, The Independent and countless other websites to get a balanced coverage. I tend to follow the work of top foreign corespondents like Robert Fisk and John Pilger, Noam Chomsky, Seymour Hersh etc.

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Now this is going to be a great service, especially if you are away on a trip and want to catch up with everything:

BBC Plans to Allow Program Downloads

AP - The British Broadcasting Corp. is planning to let Web users download its television and radio programs up to a week after they have aired.
Ref. https://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...e/bbc_downloads

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I get my news from multiple sources but rarely watch the broadcast channels, NBC, ABC, CBS or even Fox for news. Television sources include CNN and MSNBC, radio sources include PBS and Conservative talk shows (more entertainment than news), and net sources include Drudgereport, and I tend to look toward the local or in country papers when there are programs going on there. There are several good sites that list online papers for all countries.

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There seems to be a trend here, I too don't watch much Television News. It is because I don't like the topics they deal with and I hate the spin on the truth that media loves so much.
I use www.rense.com, it is quite interesting, presents the information well, and to some extent disscusses it. Most of the issues dealt with, no one who watches television news even knows about. For example, the 'Hate Bill' and The Sex Offenders Registration Act, S.1088. https://infowars.net/articles/october2005/311005hatebill.htm

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British Broadcating (BBC) of course. I do pay an ear to the others mind you but I believe in supporting local first.