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its kind of an interesting article, but the thing that snagged me and wouldn't leave my mind was this:

> when U.S. aircraft mistakenly killed about 80 Syrian troops.

you mean, it fell apart because of america and not russia like the newspapers said? and they never retracted it so they must have been right?

i'm so glad i live in the west where our media is unbiased ¬ (i really wish i wasn't joking about that :()



Errr, what newspapers do you read? Using this Google search https://www.google.com/search?q=us+appologizes+for+bombing+s... I find this errant bombing and often Obama's apology reported by the NYT, The Guardian and the Daily Mail (really, a lot better than the other tabloids) as just the most prominent papers on the first page, along with FoxNews (well, Murdoch does have papers as well), going to the 2nd page, The Telegraph and the BBC (non-newspaper) ... it's a pretty thorough cross section of the Left through the Right (most of the latter not mentioned in this posting)....

Our intervention in that mess has been so maladroit, especially as of late, that pretty much everyone in the US is unfavorably reporting on it.


train rags like metro mainly. they are not good quality sources, but they have very wide readership.


Not familiar with that one (can you supply a link to a website?), but since the Daily Mail's coverage of this is better....

Then again, the thing that's astounded me about the Daily Mail is just how good its reporting of very current events can be, including stuff that you might think would be obscure to it like the EF-5 tornado that ripped through my home city 4,500 miles away.

Well, it killed 160, so "if it bleeds, it leads", but, still, their reporting on it was timely, accurate, and their collection of pictures was better than any paper in the region, two of which I snarfed for my own page on it.... Whereas I have nothing good to say about its tabloid competitors (and despair at what the Torygraph has become, etc. etc. but that's for another discussion).


> http://metro.co.uk/

if you use public transport regularly you would have seen it. its probably the mostly widely read paper in the london area together with the evening standard. both are free, and most people don't go out of their way to buy newspapers any more...

they aren't great sources, but they are also the most often used source of news by many commuters in the london area

you do get them further afield, but there is not the same scale of public transport usage.




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