Re: [Talk] Do you read English news?

[ayuperfect (今夜就跟矜持 o ya su mi)]

※ 引述《chen95982000 (元元)》之銘言：
: I mean like CNN, BBC, New York Times,Taipei Times....etc.
: And it's really convenient to subscribe RSS if you want to check all of these
: at a time.I have done this for a long time, maybe not everyday but at least
: three days a week. I found it's a good way to get to know how to say a Chinese
:  word in English. For example, excavator(挖土機),mudslide(土石流),chopper or
: helicoper(直升機) are repeated again and again in news recently. Different news
: provider may have different styles of the article, including the difficulty of
: the vocabulary, the form of a sentence(complicated or simple enough to read),
:  and political stances may different too. Since there's variety of English news
: , I wanna ask a question.
: If you also read English news regularly,
: which news provider will you recommend?


I usually watch CNN during meals but I don't take them too seriously.

CNN had a good reputation, but recently it's becoming less reliable
and sometimes even inappropriate.  For example, about a week ago,
Ex-president Bill Clinton went to North Korea and brought back 2
reporters using some diplomatic methods (which of course was not
disclosed).  Later, when Hilary Clinton was attending some kind of
a forum in Africa(if I remember correctly), she was asked about what
her husband thought about the current issue (not related to the North
Korean incident).  Hilary's reaction was somewhat irritated and expressed
that she is the Secretary of State (I think? sorry my memory always sux orz),
and that the question should be directed to relevant issues and not about
her husband.  Anyway, the US media networks jumped on this event and
all reported that "Hilary lost her cool or snapped, blablabla".  Among
those paparazi-like media, CNN was part of it and I was not impressed
by their attitude.  I mean, I'm not a woman and even I feel that Hilary
was asked an inappropriate question, and the media (including CNN) had
to focus on her anger just to make the matter more unfair.

That was only one example.  And then there's always the dramatic and
repetitive style that CNN often used in their recent years.  I admit
that CNN is a lot less dramatic compared to Taiwanese news channels,
but if you watch CNN closely, then you can also notice that they
tend to put a lot of resources in popular events (ex MJ's death and
follow-ups), but the result is that they often ended up standing by
for nothing to happen or reporting trivial details when there are
countless other events that they can report (ex the incident in
XinJiang that resulted in thousands of death).

In conclusion, I think CNN has become relatively unprofessional.



ps:

If you are interested in reading materials(English), I think
most of the printing media are pretty good.  Newspapers usually
provide more in-depth coverage (ie listing data and giving multiple
sides of the argument).  Sadly, some newspapers in Taiwan have
become so political that they not only they limit their coverage
to support their side, but sometimes they also manipulate or
even distort the events.  In my opinion, they should be ashamed
for themselves because spreading false information (and sometimes
even intentionally) is nothing less than a crime against reporting
news.  Well, I guess you are asking about English materials, so
I will just stop here.



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