I much prefer to get all my news off crackpot websites these days. Much more fun. 

 
Remember back in the 90's - we had war in the middle east, the Rodney King riots, some Muslims accused Salman Rushdie's Satanic Verses of blasphemy and mocking their faith and declared fatwa, killing a number of translators and innocent people though Rushdie himself always managed to escape...
 
How things change, uh?
 
I learned a lot more about those issues by studying books than I ever did watching and reading the so-called News - and the News themselves have only got more outrageously stupid since. A gimmick.
 
 

I just ask the window cleaner, he knows everything....

It's weird though, just a few years ago I bought the New York Post and the Daily News every day, sometimes the New York Times as well, and really enjoy reading them from cover to cover with my morning coffee and bagel. These days you couldn't even give me a copy for free. I would just look upon it as trash to recycle. All that paper! I'll take one of those free newspapers from the street if I have to pick up a dog poop and I don't have any bags on me. The Village Voice is good for that, nice and thick. 

I just saw this (no idea of its validity so...), but in 1982 there were 48 news corporations.  In 2014, there were only six.  That would go a long way into showing how the news is crap now.

Newspapers are disappearing very gradually over here. 'The Independent' just stopped production and has gone online only.

I stopped buying newspapers when I was able to afford toilet paper .
 
Kenny

jamesg1213
Newspapers are disappearing very gradually over here. 'The Independent' just stopped production and has gone online only.

So the "independent' just joined the internet (crowd)?

sharke
It's weird though, just a few years ago I bought the New York Post and the Daily News every day, 

So sharke, which is it five years a few years?
 
I R cornfused.

craigb
I just saw this (no idea of its validity so...), but in 1982 there were 48 news corporations.  In 2014, there were only six.  That would go a long way into showing how the news is crap now.

Unfortunately most media outlets (newspapers, magazines, TV Stations) are owned by just a few major company's. The problem with this is that there is no balance to the agendas. Instead of 48 opinions we now have 6.... News can be slanted any direction that suits them best. Add to this the fact that news is now "entertainment" instead of - well - how about - "NEWS"! News is suppose to be "what happened"....
 
Now to compound this problem, people are leaning more and more toward news outlets on the internet (bloggers, conspiracy sites, fake news sites, etc...) that have ZERO credibility and run with that info as truth. As much as I despise CNN, BBC, CBC, etc... the radicals on the internet that don't know what "fact checking" is (or worse, don't care) are even more dangerous to society. IMO of course.