For a year I have been reading this magazine titled The Economist. It covers world news from every continent, and I feel that it is pretty fair in all its coverage and opinions on world issues. Its coverage of news is based mostly on facts and not opinions, and I think that is what makes any news source objective, honest, and worth reading. The articles can be really long because they like to give a lot of background information on a subject; but that is a good thing because it’s important to know how an event developed, because most events in the world do not just happen. The magazine allows one to form their own opinion on a news story instead of someone else’s.
http://www.africasia.com/newafrican/
This news magazine that I read is called New African. The reason I read it is because I believe it gives the best objective news and opinion about the continent of Africa, and Africa’s relevance to world affairs. Of the American media sources that I absorb, I think they tend to be indifferent in their coverage of Africa. The indifference mostly leads to news that I see as unworthy. So for the best news on Africa, that is what I suggest.
The best thing about going to c-span for news is that they are in no competition for ratings. C-span is funded by the cable companies as a public service to viewers. That means they don’t have to report about Britney Spears’ latest child abuse antics in order to get people watching so they can get their ratings up. They don’t have to make these wild assumptions about how Lima Beans are the new anti-Christ for people to tune in, or report on some guy in Florida that got his toes bit off by an alligator. C-span is going to be on even if there are only 100 people watching. C-span has no “booty”, or news that shouldn’t be news. C-span is good old straight forward and boring, because the news that should be talked about is boring to most (except me). I think C-span is worth reading because it is a public enterprise.
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