On Wednesday 10 September 2008 19:16:34 ken barber wrote: > okay i sent this somehow before i finished. if you find such > a source which will be hard, you'll have found a > unbiased source. > Hi Ken, Its virtually impossible to find unbiased source in the media, it gets more difficult as "news sources" fall into quite a narrow band of "media moguls". News International (Rupert Murdoch) owns:- Film Twentieth Century Fox Twentieth Century Fox Español Twentieth Century Fox International Twentieth Century Fox Television Fox Searchlight Pictures Fox Studios Australia Fox Studios Baja Fox Studios Los Angeles Fox Television Studios Television 20th Century Fox Television bTV BSkyB Fox Broadcasting Company Fox Sports Australia Fox Television Stations Foxtel Premiere (19,9%) Star Group Limited Sky Latin America SKY Network Television New Zealand Sky Italia Fox International Channels Italy STAR TV Latvijas Neatkarīgā Televīzija TV5 Rīga Cable Big Ten Network (49%) Fox Business Network Fox Movie Channel Fox News Channel Fox Soccer Channel Fox Sports Channel Fox Sports Enterprises Fox Sports en Español Fox Sports Net FUEL TV FX Networks Fox Reality National Geographic Channel SPEED Channel Turner South LAPTV (Latin America - co-owned with Paramount Pictures/Viacom, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/MGM Holdings and Universal Studios/NBC Universal) Telecine (Brazil - co-owned with Globosat Canais, Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Universal Studios and DreamWorks/Viacom); Internet Fox Interactive Media AmericanIdol.com AskMen.com Fox.com Foxsports.com GameSpy kSolo IGN Drownedinsound.com MySpace MyNetworktv.com NewRoo.com Strategicdatacorp.com Photobucket.com Rotten Tomatoes Scout.com SpringWidgets WhatIfSports Magazines and Inserts InsideOut donna hay News America Marketing SmartSource The Weekly Standard Gemstar Newspapers United Kingdom The Sun News of the World The Times Sunday Times Australia The Daily Telegraph (Sydney) The Sunday Telegraph (Sydney) The Australian (national) The Advertiser and Sunday Mail (Adelaide) The Sunday Times (Perth) Herald Sun (Melbourne) Sunday Herald Sun (Melbourne) mX (Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane) The Courier-Mail (Brisbane) Geelong Advertiser Gold Coast Bulletin The Mercury and Sunday Tasmanian (Hobart) Northern Territory News (Darwin) The Sunday Territorian (Darwin) New Zealand Sunday Star-Times Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea Post-Courier Fiji The Fiji Times United States New York Post The Wall Street Journal Books HarperCollins Miscellaneous National Rugby League (NRL) (50%) Sibelius Software Ansett Australia, Until 2000 (50%) And you may say "Well its Ok they're all editorially independent" but its interesting to note that, at the time, all 175 newspapers he controls supported Bush going into Iraq:- <http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2003/feb/17/mondaymediasection.iraq> Given that its virtually impossible to get news that is unbiased, the next best is to get news which is biased in many different ways, from as many different countries as possible. I quite like Al-Jazeera (they've currently got a piece by American Historian Howard Zinn):- <http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/09/20089814415795791.html> Which is thought provoking. Cheers Deri ----------------------- To change your mail settings or leave the C-PALSY list, go here: http://listserv.icors.org/SCRIPTS/WA-ICORS.EXE?SUBED1=c-palsy