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Forum as a News Source?
While it's fairly useless for local matters, I find this forum superior to any other source I know of for national (US) and even more so international news. It's more entertaining and every issue is presented in numerous points of view. How do you think it compares?
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July 31, 2003, 10:22
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It compares well. But, before I started reading/posting here, people often asked I I'd been living in a cave for several months.
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July 31, 2003, 10:24
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It's certainly better in that regard than some other forums I could mention that are exclusively either liberal or conservative, or exclusively pro-war or anti-war.
At least we have a good mixture here, although the number of people who can express their opinion in an intelligent and coherent way isn't all that high.
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July 31, 2003, 10:25
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 I agree, the main reason I visit the OT forum is for current news...So the OT forum does serve a purpose. 
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July 31, 2003, 10:26
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July 31, 2003, 10:32
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July 31, 2003, 10:37
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July 31, 2003, 10:44
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Re: Forum as a News Source?
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Originally posted by  Smiley
While it's fairly useless for local matters, I find this forum superior to any other source I know of for national (US) and even more so international news. It's more entertaining and every issue is presented in numerous points of view. How do you think it compares?
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yes, there isn´t any more unbiased news source I know about in www (even though every single post in itself is a biased one ). all opinions about a certain issue at one look.
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July 31, 2003, 11:35
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actually, this forum, rather than being a good place for me to get real news, i find often has a lot of good, quirky stories.
almost as good as metafilter. 
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July 31, 2003, 12:24
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The best thing is that late afternoon my time, I'm reading about events here, that will be in the next morning's paper. And the funny thing is that the newpaper article doesn't provide much new information.
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July 31, 2003, 12:26
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The best thing is that late afternoon my time, I'm reading about events here, that will be in the next morning's paper. And the funny thing is that the newpaper article doesn't provide much new information.
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 Well, we can always change the name of the Off-Topic Forum to The Aployton Times Forum.
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July 31, 2003, 12:33
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This is a great place for late breaking news during the day. Somebody will post it within minutes of it happening, and then I can go to other news sources for more details if needed... but sometimes, there is no need for more details.
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