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You're on the right track with BBC. Reuters is also good.

I joined this a while ago, virtually no bias and a lot of interesting stories. It's actually how I start my day now and it's been very refreshing. I wish they had a website with more news as this is just one email per day in your inbox. Try it, I promise you won't be sorry.

https://join1440.com/

Thanks Fate. I hate all the extremists that place the blame on one side or another. Their message is intended to divide rather than unite. I prefer objectivity. Thanks again.

No problem.

While I agree with you 100% - you'll find a lot of people, even the very reasonable ones, with right leaning politics tell you that the BBC is "medium-hard left". Having grown up as a consumer of the BBC I believe they report facts - have very little opinion and very little politics. If they have a left lean it is a reflection of how far right politics in the USA is rather than the BBC being political - but that's an opinion only. It always made me smile when Tony Blair got so much love from every person I spoke to in the US during the Iraq War, yet the Labor Party and Blair would be closely aligned with someone like Bernie Sanders.

And media bias charts have been put together and I find mostly I agree with their take - but others will debate and say the chart is compiled by a communist !

https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/media-literacy/2021/should-you-trust-media-bias-charts/

It's funny that those charts split news sources into news and opinion when nearly every story, from every source, drips with the opinion of the writer (who's already is biased towards the channel) and the person "reporting".

When do you see "news" on MSNBC, CNN or Fox that isn't opinionated? Please let me know what slots I should be tuning in to.

Actual news sometimes includes fact you and others would consider bias. That works both ways.

I have no idea what that means. I suspect you're trying to imply something I didn't say. Works both ways? I just described MSM, and my text was 100% unbiased.

Facts aren't biased. The opinions generated are. Understanding the difference is difficult for you and others.

What it means is that facts do not exclude who is responsible. That will sometimes be the left and sometimes be the right which is at fault. So if you are a proponent of either side and your side is to blame, a lot of people see that as a story being bias. And my comment, "works both ways"? It was an effort to show that I see it as something that works both ways. It had nothing to do with your comments. I don't like to leave it open to interpretation as to whether I'm suggesting something is a one way street.

Ahhh. Thanks for clarifying.

No problem. It's easy to confuse or misunderstand ones intent. I would much rather clarify something than to see a misunderstanding linger.

Yhe most neutral talk show host is Dan Abrams. He had a radio show on POTUS radio and a tv show on a channel I am unclear about


Next in line, imo, would be Micheal Smerconish
He also has a radio show on POTUS
i think he might have a tv show as well

Smerconish has a show on CNN. It airs on Saturday mornings at 9:00 A.M. and repeated at 3:00 P.M. I watch it on a regular basis. He also has a web site....

https://www.smerconish.com/

I look at them all.

For giggles I like https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ushome/index.html because it's the TMZ of news. A lot of times it has more details than US news on US stories.

AP and Reuters have been historically the best locations to obtain factual news.

I listen to Smerconish on SirrusXM weekdays 9-12 am Eastern time. He explores both sides and provides his opinion, which may lean left or right, but is normally pretty mainstream and rarely partisan. He has a disdain for the partisan politics of today.

j/c

Tucker Carlson Gets an Offer From Russia State Media

Tucker Carlson received an offer from Russian state media after Fox News announced it would part ways with the longtime host on Monday.

Fox announced Monday morning that Carlson would be departing from the network, writing in a statement that the conservative host's last show aired on Friday. Fox wrote, "FOX News Media and Tucker Carlson have agreed to part ways. We thank him for his service to the network as a host and prior to that as a contributor."

Carlson, a conservative firebrand, has faced criticism from the left over his stance on a variety of topics including the 2020 presidential election and the Russia-Ukraine war, as he has voiced criticisms against Ukraine and its president Volodymyr Zelensky, earning him praise from Russia. Despite these criticisms, Carlson frequently ranked among the most-watched cable news hosts, as conservatives support him.

The announcement that Carlson would be leaving the network drew strong reactions from both his supporters and critics on social media Monday, including from the Kremlin-affiliated news outlet Russia Today (RT).

RT, which has previously published news articles in support of Carlson, appeared to make an offer for him to appear on their network.

"Hey @TuckerCarlson, you can always question more with @RT_com," RT tweeted.

Julia Davis, a journalist who frequently reports on Russian state television, responded to the offer, writing: "Almost too predictable."

"@TuckerCarlson regularly platformed disinformation agents and genocide deniers on topics from Syria to Ukraine. It's only fitting an outlet like Russia Today would court him," tweeted political scientist Sophie Fullerton.

In a statement to Newsweek, a spokesperson for Russia Today wrote: "We already had the pleasure of working with the greats like Julian Assange and the late Larry King, and had extended an invite to President Trump in 2020, and we continue to welcome outspoken, diverse personalities on our network."

Meanwhile, Carlson was also offered a role by Vladimir Solovyov, who hosts Evening With Vladimir Solovyov on Russia-1. He wrote in a Telegram post, "Tucker, come join us. You don't have to be afraid of taking the p*** out of Biden here."
Russian State TV's History of Praising Tucker Carlson

Clips from Carlson's Fox News show have previously been used on Russian state TV, which largely backs the positions of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Amid the Russia-Ukraine war, which Putin launched in February 2022, the Kremlin has cracked down on dissent and criticisms against the war.

Earlier in April, guests on the Russian program Meeting Place praised Carlson's remarks about 21-year-old Jack Teixeira, who has been arrested for allegedly leaking hundreds of sensitive U.S. documents online related to plans for Ukraine. Carlson described him as a "whistle-blower," drawing support from Putin propagandists.

In September, for instance, Russian state TV used clips of Carlson to promote the war against Ukraine amid growing dissent after Putin announced a partial mobilization of troops. Footage aired in Russia showed Carlson saying "happy anniversary" to the war while saying it would be impossible for Ukraine to defeat Russia.

Carlson's remarks about the Ukraine war at times drew criticism against Fox, with some critics accusing him of spreading Russian propaganda. However, Carlson has defended his coverage of the topic as he and other conservatives say the Biden administration should spend the money provided to Ukraine back at home.

https://www.newsweek.com/tucker-carlson-gets-offer-russia-state-media-1796379

I'm sure it's a very nice bed in a very large house.

Carlson and Lemon should team up and do a podcast together. Hell they have enough money, start their own network... It could be what Hannity & Combs would have been if Combs hadn't been such a wuss.

I remember Hannity/Combs from the 90's. It was on air during a regular weekly commute. I couldn't understand how Alan Combs could allow himself to get regularly slulldrug by someone whose game was so lame.

As for a Carlson/Lemon podcast, I think I'll pass. Carlson pss's me off and Lemon creeps me out.

Good to see you. Long time


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There are a number of pretty silly posts to respond to but I will just pick yours. It is amusing reading on here about tucker the philosophical “prostitute” on Fox News. He is one of the few totally anti establishment commentators on tv. He sees clearly that with some philosophy differences aside, guys like Schumer and McConnell share many of the same goals keeping the swamp intact and government control growing.

Want to see blatant prostitution switch over and watch characters like maddow on one of the lying looney lefty networks. She trumpets some stupid tax form from trump like she was going to reveal top secret info. Then….nothing burger. She spends 3.5 years feeding people like you that trump was a putin puppit, a Russian asset, a commie in the White House. All bogus of course, though I am sure some of the lefties on here are still all in. She went day after day telling you the vaccine would keep you from getting the virus, then telling you the vaccine would keep you from spreading the virus. All bogus information.

She was prostituting herself to the establishment. Anything they wanted out there Rachel was their gal. Give me someone who questions everything the establishment puts out there. That way we will get to the truth.

One would have to write a book to correct all the lies on here about tucker but I will let it go at that.

No, no they wouldn't.

Regarding Tucker: If a single word of what you just wrote was true how then do we have a text message from Tucker that says

""We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights," Carlson wrote on Jan 4, 2021, the filings show. "I truly can't wait."

"I hate him passionately," the Fox host continued. "I blew up at Peter Navarro today in frustration. I actually like Peter. But I can't handle much more of this."

"That's the last four years," Carlson added. "We're all pretending we've got a lot to show for it, because admitting what a disaster it's been is too tough to digest. But come on. There isn't really an upside to Trump.""

Tuckers own words off air and in private - but for years before and now the 3 years since (because Trump is still defacto leader of the GOP) - Tucker is a groveling Trump enabler and supporter ON AIR?

That's the very definition of prostituting himself and proving he is a sycophant.

As for Maddow - I can't tell you, I don't watch her. But maybe you'll notice that a whole lot of posters have been calling out both sides of the media for their lies, spin and agenda driven opinion pieces.

Maddow is terribly slanted to the left and is no better than Tucker in regards to bias. I haven't watched her in years and as per most of these slanted shows I only watch them long enough to see just how far left or right they will go to twist the news. I do know her show used to be televised daily and has been cut back to only being aired once a week and that started in early 2022.

There is something bothering me about this whole thing.

Who writes the following as a text?

Tucker Carlson

January 7, 2021 — 04:18:04PM UTC

A couple of weeks ago, I was watching video of people fighting on the street in Washington. A group of Trump guys surrounded an Antifa kid and started pounding the living [censored] out of him. It was three against one, at least. Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously. It’s not how white men fight. Yet suddenly I found myself rooting for the mob against the man, hoping they’d hit him harder, kill him. I really wanted them to hurt the kid. I could taste it. Then somewhere deep in my brain, an alarm went off: this isn’t good for me. I’m becoming something I don’t want to be. The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?

You forgot one important part. "“Jumping a guy like that is dishonorable obviously,” he texted. “It’s not how white men fight.”

Can’t stand him. Don’t like the way he said it. But his awakening is long past due and I’m glad he gets this much. I despise people like him, but even he has a right to exist peacefully.

Everything is about shades of brown with this ilk. He’s just not trying to hide it anymore at all.

And now FOX News is whining about people reporting actual facts about Tucker.....

Fox demands Media Matters stop publishing leaked Tucker Carlson videos

Fox sent a cease-and-desist letter on Friday to Media Matters, the progressive watchdog, and its president, demanding that it take down embarrassing behind-the-scenes videos of Tucker Carlson attacking Fox News’ streaming service and making crude remarks while joking with staff.

The footage, published over the last week in a series of clips, comes in the wake of Carlson’s abrupt firing at the right-wing network and as a steady drip of leaked text messages show the former primetime star making racist and denigrating comments.

The sternly worded letter from Fox Corporation lawyers said the “unaired footage” is its “confidential intellectual property” and demanded Media Matters “cease and desist from distribution, publication, and misuse of Fox’s misappropriated proprietary footage, which you are now on notice was unlawfully obtained.”

“Reporting on newsworthy leaked material is a cornerstone of journalism,” Media Matters President Angelo Carusone said in response to Fox’s demand Friday. “For Fox to argue otherwise is absurd and further dispels any pretense that they’re a news operation. Perhaps if I tell them that the footage came from a combination of WikiLeaks and Hunter Biden’s laptop, it will alleviate their concerns.”

Carlson has not responded to CNN requests for comment about the footage.

The watchdog group published a video clip on Wednesday showing Carlson speaking to colleagues on set between broadcasts candidly discussing the deposition he gave in Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation case against Fox. Carlson referred to a Dominion lawyer as a “slimy little motherf**ker” and confessed to his producer “the hate” that he felt for him.

“I don’t want to feel that way. I think it’s wrong. It’s bad. It’s totally bad for you to feel that way,” Carlson said. “But that guy, he triggered the sh*t out of me.”

The footage also showed Carlson trashing the right-wing network’s streaming service Fox Nation, expressing frustration that the platform “sucks” and complaining that its “unbelievable” shortcomings were a “betrayal” of his efforts.

In other clips, Carlson is seen talking about sex ahead of an on-camera interview with Fox Nation host Piers Morgan, saying, “If we’re going to talk about sex, I’d love to hit some of the fine points of technique.”

Others show him asking a makeup artist if “pillow fights ever break out” in the women’s bathroom, discussing his “postmenopausal fans” and describing a woman as “yummy.”

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/05/medi...xWTYvS-QdpSZKHxGBBDOpEnklHWRBQyxu93NYhRc

No wonder you don't hear the terms snowflake and triggered coming from the right so much anymore.

j/c:



93 million views in 18 hours. Wow!

How does he monetize this?

Is he in his garage, or in a barn?

He doesn't have to. He is beyond wealthy. He was making 20 million a year at Fox.

I think the issue boils down to a non compete clause in his contract with FOX news which it appears he plans to fight. As of now I'm not sure that agreement would actually allow him to work for and profit from another news organization....

Scoop: Tucker Carlson accuses Fox of fraud, contract breach

Tucker Carlson, two weeks after being ousted by Fox News, accused the network Tuesday of fraud and breach of contract — and made a host of document demands that could precede legal action.

Why it matters: The aggressive letter from his lawyers to Fox positions Carlson to argue that the noncompete provision in his contract is no longer valid — freeing him to launch his own competing show or media enterprise.

On Tuesday, Carlson announced he would be bringing his show to Twitter.
"Starting soon we'll be bringing a new version of the show we've been doing for the last six and a half years to Twitter," he said in the video. "We bring some other things too, which we'll tell you about. But for now we're just grateful to be here. Free speech is the main right that you have. Without it, you have no others."

The intrigue: The Twitter move would seem to technically violate Carlson's contract with Fox, but his lawyers' letter effectively holds that Fox breached the contract first.

Sources told Axios that Carlson's lawyers sent their letter before he took to Twitter to announce his new show.

Catch up quick: Axios reported Sunday that Carlson, frustrated by being held to his contract, is preparing to unleash allies to pressure the network into letting him work for — or start — a right-wing rival.

Carlson's contract runs until January 2025 and Fox wants to keep paying him, which would prevent him from starting a competing show.
Carlson already has gotten eye-popping offers from several right-wing outlets, and has talked to Elon Musk about working together.

The details: The letter — from Carlson lawyer Bryan Freedman to Fox officials Viet Dinh and Irena Briganti — said Fox employees, including "Rupert Murdoch himself," broke promises to Carlson "intentionally and with reckless disregard for the truth."

The lawyers accuse Fox executives — which two sources say are Dinh and Murdoch — of making “material representations,” or promises, to Carlson that were intentionally broken, constituting fraud.
Notably, the letter alleges Fox broke an agreement with Carlson not to leak his private communications to the media and not to use Carlson's private messages "to take any adverse employment action against him."
Multiple outlets have reported on Carlson's redacted communications from pre-trial discovery documents and have suggested that they led to his ousting.

The letter also alleges Fox broke promises not to settle with Dominion Voting Systems "in a way which would indicate wrongdoing" on the part of Carlson and not to take any actions in a settlement that would harm Carlson's reputation.

Carlson was told by a member of the Fox board that he was taken off the air as part of the Dominion settlement, two sources briefed on a conversation told Axios.

According to a source familiar with Carlson's position, his lawyers believe that the misrepresentations alleged by Carlson amount to a breach of contract because they created additional terms of Carlson's employment that were then broken by the company.
"These actions not only breached the covenant of good faith and fair dealing in the Agreement, but give rise to claims for breach of contract, and intentional and negligent misrepresentation," the letter says.

A Fox News spokesperson said it is "categorically false" that Carlson lost his job as part of the network's $787.5 million settlement with Dominion Voting Systems.

Stephen Shackelford, an outside attorney for Dominion, told Axios' Dan Primack: "Dominion did not insist on them firing Tucker Carlson as part of the settlement."

What's next: Carlson is also claiming that Briganti, Fox's longtime communications and PR chief, attempted to "undermine, embarrass, and interfere" with Carlson's future business prospects, which he maintains would constitute another breach of his employment contract.

"Make no mistake, we intend to subpoena Ms. Briganti’s cell phone records and related documents, which evidence communications with her and all media, including, but not limited to The New York Times," the letter said.

What to watch: Carlson's lawyers added that because Carlson is considering litigation against the network to resolve these disputes, Fox News must take immediate steps "to preserve all existing documents and data" relevant to Fox’s relationship with Carlson, including correspondence between top executives and several media outlets.

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/09/tucker-carlson-fox-news-letter-fraud

I watched out of morbid curiosity.

who the hell cares? I mean the guy is a proven prostitute. You'd have to be media blind and bias blind to want to dial in an listen to this shill. Maybe he says all the things you like to hear - he doesn't believe what he spews ... why would you listen to a guy like that. Definition of a snake oil salesman.

So if I understand correctly, Carlson is going to go on Twitter to continue his BS..

Why would he not go on Truth Social. I mean, given h is fascination with Trump, why not jump on there. It would be good for him and good for Trump... TS would grow by leaps and bounds with all the idiots following this guy.

Because Truth Social has roughly 2 million active accounts. Twitter has over 350 million active accounts.

Tucker’s new media outlet should be nicknamed Tucker’s Suckers for all the rubes that support him.

His new "media outlet" is to post on Twitter.