Non-IT News Thread
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OMG that is so me and @andyw - we used to hit the all you could drink martini happy bar at the local country club then run all over the golf course trying to get home.
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@thanksajdotcom said in Non-IT News Thread:
My mother actually thought that was real news. I had to tell her it was satire.
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@coliver next video: Majority of Americans Get Their News from The Onion
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver next video: Majority of Americans Get Their News from The Onion
I'm sure that isn't far from the truth.
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The onion is the only trustworthy news source that I know of.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver next video: Majority of Americans Get Their News from The Onion
I'm sure that isn't far from the truth.
Considering how many people "get" the news from The Daily Show. It's probably as accurate as the "real" news channels
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver next video: Majority of Americans Get Their News from The Onion
I'm sure that isn't far from the truth.
Considering how many people "get" the news from The Daily Show. It's probably as accurate as the "real" news channels
Surprisingly The Daily Show often presented the news better then Fox News or CNN. The same thing with John Oliver and even Stephen Colbert. The way they were presented was entertaining and strictly for entertainment purposes but that didn't make the news less viable then the "Main Stream Media". Most of the time the "satire" news, aside from the Onion, cited sources better then most other stations.
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The thing I found the funniest, when John Stewart got something wrong he admitted it in the next show and corrected the record. When some "news" channels do that in the US they double down and use the "Say it enough times till it becomes true" philosophy.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
Surprisingly The Daily Show often presented the news better then Fox News or CNN.
That's surprising?
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
Surprisingly The Daily Show often presented the news better then Fox News or CNN.
That's surprising?
I see this meme constantly. Where people assume because you watch the Daily Show or John Oliver you are less informed then if you watch other news sources, mostly this comes from Fox News viewers.
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@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@coliver said in Non-IT News Thread:
Surprisingly The Daily Show often presented the news better then Fox News or CNN.
That's surprising?
I see this meme constantly. Where people assume because you watch the Daily Show or John Oliver you are less informed then if you watch other news sources, mostly this comes from Fox News viewers.
Assuming I was to watch any of the major news channels, it would be Fox News.... we dropped cable tv because none of us could see the value in it anymore. Any of it.
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I avoid American news, it's horrible. I watch British and Qatar news, if anything. My dad watches the German and Japanese news.
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What was super odd was seeing CNN Macedonia playing while we were in Skopje. CNN makes a news channel just for Macedonia, and does so in English.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
What was super odd was seeing CNN Macedonia playing while we were in Skopje. CNN makes a news channel just for Macedonia, and does so in English.
I don't suppose that's available via a stream somewhere?
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Watching news from other countries is much more important, I think, as you get to see how other people are actually reacting to us. When I was a kid I had a shortwave and got BBC World Service, Radio Havana and Radio Moscow. It was interesting.
In Macedonia, they couldn't stop talking about how everyone was worried about Trump except the Russians who thought it was great as it would be someone that they could easily manipulate and control, like Stalin did with FDR. They kept playing clips of how Putin would flatter him and Trump would lose all credibility gushing about how awesome Russia was for calling him smart. They kept showing people on the street excited for the prospects of a Russian puppet in the White House.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
What was super odd was seeing CNN Macedonia playing while we were in Skopje. CNN makes a news channel just for Macedonia, and does so in English.
I don't suppose that's available via a stream somewhere?
I doubt it, but didn't look. It was not very good. They were not even covering the revolution going on in the country where the news was playing. But they kept running ads for investing in the country, like that was going to happen.
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@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
What was super odd was seeing CNN Macedonia playing while we were in Skopje. CNN makes a news channel just for Macedonia, and does so in English.
I don't suppose that's available via a stream somewhere?
I doubt it, but didn't look. It was not very good. They were not even covering the revolution going on in the country where the news was playing. But they kept running ads for investing in the country, like that was going to happen.
So, not quite as bad as CNN/MSNBC/FOX yet.
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@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
@travisdh1 said in Non-IT News Thread:
@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:
What was super odd was seeing CNN Macedonia playing while we were in Skopje. CNN makes a news channel just for Macedonia, and does so in English.
I don't suppose that's available via a stream somewhere?
I doubt it, but didn't look. It was not very good. They were not even covering the revolution going on in the country where the news was playing. But they kept running ads for investing in the country, like that was going to happen.
So, not quite as bad as CNN/MSNBC/FOX yet.
It's still CNN so pretty crappy. But at least it is CNN with a south Balkan slant, so the perspective and flavour is interesting.
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@DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:
The onion is the only trustworthy news source that I know of.
Because it is just absurd enough that it is plausible!
