This is an interesting debate.

As I am from the UK I thought I ought to contribute.

I am quite pleased the British news sources are being highly sourced in the US. However I would like to add some points;

* The print press in the UK is as divided as that in the US. There are left leaning and right leaning publications. There are quality and tabloid publications and there are freely owned and corporate publications. So, for example the Daily Mail is a right leaning ‘Middle England’ paper that is owned by a large media group. The Guardian is left leaning and is funded at a lose to its owners.

* Television and Radio media have to be impartial. The BBC may seem left leaning to a US audience but here it is seen as centralist. It’s news gathering operation is the largest in the world and I believe a credit to the UK because of its professionalism, high standards and impartiality. It is also funded by the people through the method of a license fee and so is accountable to the people. Again to some people in the US this may seem like Socialist craziness but it isn’t at all. it saves the UK from the appalling prospect of News channels taking sides in debates in order to woo viewers who don’t want their views and opinions challenged to much.

* There is a differnce in quality in UK news gathering. Generally speaking the Daily Mail, Sun, Express, Mirrior etc are seen as low quality publications. The Daily Mail inparticular is widley ridiculed across the spectrum for its reactionary views and for the newspace it gives to some of its colunists. It’s a little like Fox News but not quite as bad. Then there is the Guardian, Times, Telegraph and Independent which are seen as quality and indepth in their news gathering. Though opinion on and in these papers may vary they are by far a more reliable record of the times.

* America really should have a BBC. Think of the good it could do for the nation. It will never happen though as the deeply ingrained myths about socialism would block the venture.

@judy martin:

Smoking isn't one of my vices, no.

You don't smoke? Excuse me.I thought you smoked grass(reafer, mary jane, dope you know marijuana) but you don't enhale? Have you ever smoked a joint? Come on have you, I won't tell.

@judy martin:

I'm going to try to parse this into something intelligible, but I honestly don't know that I'm up to the task.

"You smokin with Obama again, Chas?"

I don't smoke.

"If you aren't, make sure his death panels don’t unplug you in the hospital, with the Obama and Democrats health care plan."

So, if I don't smoke—hence decreasing my likelihood of hospitalization—I have more reason to fear fictitious death panels, not less? What impeccable logic.

"As for myself I would like god to chose my fate."

Does that mean you don't use hospitals, then? After all, they aren't necessary, if God is choosing your fate.

Incidentally, Judy, is there anything in particular that inspired this tangent, or are you just fond of being completely random?

You smokin with Obama again Chas, if you aren't make sure his death panels don't unplug you in the hospital, with the Obama and Democrats health care plan. As for myself I would like god to chose my fate.

@Minestein:

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard is opposed to the UK (officially, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) joining the EU. Is that what you meant?

So, according to Jackson Jones, I have two choices:

1. Impending nuclear war;
2. Believing Obama.

I know this is a tough decision, but I think I'll vote for the latter.

I won't give an interview to Fox News because they are "uncredible".

Enjoy the nuclear war that is about to begin, or you can belive Obama.

Anyone that can use the words "credible" , Fox News< Glen Beck, and Hannity in the same sentence. Is insane….Really !!!!!!

I like Reading Ambrose Evans Pritchard of the daily Telegraph, he makes a lot of sense and is impartial to Right wing USA Republican Fascism and left wing USA democratic Communism. Granted he has some issues about Britain Joining the UK, but hell who doesnt, the last thing we need now is more globalization. Keep up the good work "Brits" and UKers.

Kind of disgusting, and insulting, that Faux Nooz watchers would be posting, but not unexpected.  They mindlessly watch their favorite bile on TV, then just as mindlessly go post a ton of garbage when they're pointed somewhere and told to.

The difference between balanced reporting and cherry-picked 'facts' is enormous.  It's the difference between information and propaganda.

They already have the lunatic fringe stirred up and murdering census workers. 

They LOVE abusing freedom of speech to CONvince morons to do their dirty deeds for them with endless radio and television pleas to commit violent acts to 'Save America' from people who aren't Christian supremacists and don't want the U.S. to be a theocratic police state like they want.

Daniel Hannen's the reason I look at the UK sites.  He's awesome!!!!! Plus I loved PM Thatcher!!!

Hey Joe, Where you goin with that gun in your hand.

I agree, Fox News is slanted towards the left just like the BBC is.  They both are a little less “aromatic” than ABC,CBS,NBC, CNN, NYT, or Washington Post though.  The truth is out there but it takes a lot more effort to uncover it.  Thank God for the internet and AM radio.  Sure there is a bias in both, but at least you get some real facts in the process and they tell you where they are coming from.  Glad to know your out there Buddy.

I can't believe all the US posters here praising Fox news on these comments, while saying they like BBC as well. 

Fox and its reports are in a fictional world of its own which is not the same world the rest of the people live in.  Reality has a left-leaning bias - and by that view, so does BBC.

"I would hardly call the BBC a credible news org. "

Ineeded far too much Scottish bias , but then again of course need I mention our British Government is also run by a group of oatmeal savages?

@teaparty:

Why did I vote for Obama? Voting is important to me, and it is a right that I have exercised for every election since I came of voting age. I have no party allegiances. I voted for Obama because my conscience compels me to vote, and because I considered him the better alternative to McCain.

As far as the term "redneck" goes, I wasn't using it to describe a political affiliation, but rather to indicate that I grew up in a state where racism (and poor education) are commonplace. My apologies if I offended. It is a term that a fairly large percentage of Idahoans use to describe themselves, often with pride.

@chas. warren…I am just curious, what were the reasons you supported Obama, considering his complete lack of experience in government.  Granted, McCain, wasn't much of a choice for the other side.  Was it just "hope"and what the hell, I'll vote for this guy??

ps…you could have said "red" state instead of "redneck"...I know, you just can't help yourself can you…maybe you should get some sleep, 'cause I think you're trying to be a good person

Sigh.

I'm not an Obama supporter. I used to be, but his actions since becoming president have disappointed me, as they have many of his fans.

I'm also not an impersonator. I am exactly as I present myself.  I haven't yet made introductions here, so you know nothing about me that other than what I revealed above.

I'm not from the OK, I'm from the US. I lived in the UK for many years, but the majority of my life has been spent in redneck Idaho.

You make assumptions about me that aren't true, based on a faulty reading of my comments.

First word, last word, nite, night, I don't care, I am just trying to carry on a decent conversation.

Terry criticized Eris of something of which he was guilty himself, and I pointed out the hypocrisy. I was suspicious of Jane from Salina/Debbie USA,/Ana Dasheki , for reasons that I explained, and I shared that suspicion.

Ana then chose to insult me rather than engage in dialogue.

Inexplicably, you accuse me of being an impersonator, so now I am involved is this probably fruitless conversation with you.

But I'm bored, and suffering from a bout of insomnia, so this is as good a way to spend my time as any.

it's Ms, and teaparty refers to the recent teaparties held against the encroaching Marxism coming in the US.

I did not mean it as a slur to England, I am an avowed Anglophile.  Seems to me you're Irish, green or orange?

Well, speaking for myself, these days, many of us are looking to Good Ole England, 'cause things here are changing into something we don't want, which is Marxism.  Oh, it's coming alright, which makes me nostalgic for the Magna Carta and Parliament, know what I mean.

My family goes all the way back to Wales, and is mentioned in 12 century land documents, so I am getting nostalgic for the "Isles".

We over here love the British Mysteries, etc, but we not sure if that kind of lifestyle still exists there.  Are you also having the same upheavals there as we are here?

PS, what Obama did with Churchill's bust , by returning it was ABSOLUTELY the rudest.  He probably still identifies heavily with his Kenyan past. It was a very unclassy thing to do !!!!!

We apologize for the Administration's very poor behavior….England did not deserve that.  Churchill in my opinion was a definite hero, and he is admired by many in the States, at least those with an education.

Chas why don't you go play with a door knob and quit slamming people of classs all you want to do is lie like Obama. I'll let you have the last word…..........and say good day or nite wereever you are. P.S. nite is a way of spelling night or it could be a type error?

Mr. teaparty .....clever, teaparty is a slur to the English, in history the Boston tea party when Liberals threw tea in the bay against the Throne.

@BILLY O'DELL:

Impersonator? Whom or what am I impersonating, and why do you make this puzzling accusation? How am I shaming the Queen?

Mr. Chas Warren you must be an impersonator yourself, come on over to Sneem and I'll teach you to box Irish style. If you were a gentleman you wouldn't shame the Queen.

Well, Brits, Ana is obviously racist.  The phrase "white trash" is considered by whites in the States to be a racist statement.  It cuts both ways you see. It's the same as using "cracker"....you see there are as many racist blacks as whites here.  FYI

@TheRightIsWrong:

The Drudge Report is notoriously conservative, and the majority of referals come from there.  Hypothesizing vitriol-for-hire, faux right-wingers really isn't necessary.

I do agree with you regarding MSNBC and FoxNews.

I get it. Really, I do. However, what I'm getting isn't the message that you intend to convey, I'm sure.

I'm from the United States. We spell it "racist" here, exactly like they spell it in the UK.

We spell stupid "A-N-A."

Goodbye, Ana.

We spell different than you Englanders. Example color /colour, get it white trash?

So, Jane from Salina, Debbie USA, and Ana Dasheki all misspell racist identically ("raciest"). I'd never seen this misspelling until today. Are they copying each other, or are we suffering a single illiterate troll using multiple identities?

I serious this is a hate site you must give our President Obama a chance before Isreal gets world blowed up.

President Obama is the answer for change, he will stoop the raciest white male hate mongers and create a nation of love and understanding with shared wealth for all!

Thanks for the info Patrick. They call far right raciests in America the Red Staters and we think it is quite offensive just because we don't live the lifestyle of the godless east and west coasters. You see Obama is a Muslim.

From a Brit :

Please, please, please America - do not read and believe the Daily Mail!

It pretends to be a quality paper but is a nasty, right-wing rag with lots of exceptionally unreliable or twisted stories. There are plenty of British blogs that highlight the lies and exaggerations in the Mail's reporting (see Mailwatch, Tabloid Watch, Five Chinese Crackers and others).

Also, it has been shown repeatedly that the British National Party - a far-right party of racist extremists - copy-and-paste Mail stories into their own 'news' releases…

The Mail also includes lots of pictures of American 'celebs' such as Kim Kardashian - who is not at all known in the UK - just so the Americans will visit the site.

Seems to be working from this story!

Ha CNN BBC I'd rather read GRIMMS FAIRY TALES.

I find myself forced to look for news elsewhere.
News (and I use the term loosely) in the USA has been on a steady downward spiral since they decided that profit and spin was more important, you know, actual journalism.

CNN was the biggest shocker. For what used to be a beacon of journalism, they are now unwatchable.
I never watched MSNBC or FoxNews or any of the ridiculous cable 'news' networks. The hate and lies spewed from these guys are just unbelievable. It boggles the mind.

I find myself forced to go to the BBC now for something resembling actual news. It appears I'm not the only American to go this route.

As a sidenote, the right wing hate groups regularly encourage/pay people to bomb sites and message boards with their talking points. At first glance, it appears to have happened here. Just another indicator of the political climate in the good old USofA right now… scary.

RON:“but there are few sites of sucess yet.”

sights?????

To RON:  No, he means sites… like webSITEs.

By the way most Americans love you Brits, hope you love us too, have a good day!

I miss Benny Hill

Mr. Obama is the shame of liberalism.

I've considered the evidence presented from both sides, and I have come to the conclusion that Obama was born in Hawaii. Obviously, I could be wrong. I'm not willing to express my opinions as bold statements of fact.

Still, the Obama birth announcements in the Hawaiian papers were sufficient proof for me.

Obama was born in Kenya and is not our President by law, not native born, I buy the way am a Native Kansan born in Salina, Kansas and have a legit birth certificate to prove it.

News flash Obama is a capitalist. Your gods Lyndsay Graham and John Boehner both denied that Obama is a socialist you may want to look it up. Heck even on CBS Glenn Beck stated that “Obama was better for the country than McCain”

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Taking a comment out of context, eh?  Glenn Beck meant it was better for the country that McCain didn't win because the election of Obama has woken up the Americans by exposing how evil the left really is.  There is no hiding their fringe-leftist ideology anymore.  We're on to them. McCain would have kissed up to them and further destroyed the republican brand - expanding on the damage done by Bush.

I just read The SUN I like it, but I can see that men would really like it. I'm not a right wing nut or a raciest, but you can call me a redneck Kansas cowgirl.

@American_Truth_Seeker:

The Guardian isn't bipartisan, but it doesn't pretend to me, so I don't protest its slant. However, its standard of journalism is high, even when I disagree with some of the opinions expressed therein, which I frequently do.

Read an assortment of UK papers for balance.

Wow. Look at all the right wing loonies coming out of the woodwork here.

News flash Obama is a capitalist. Your gods Lyndsay Graham and John Boehner both denied that Obama is a socialist you may want to look it up. Heck even on CBS Glenn Beck stated that "Obama was better for the country than McCain"

Yeah selling one set of boobs is as easy as selling another collection of boobs (the Guardian).  BTW Boobs in America is also an idiot.

American_Truth_Seeker wrote:

"Funny how in the rankings, the Sun (117) comes before the Guardian (134).  What does that say about the journalism of the Guardian?"

Nothing at all. Bare breasts are easier to sell, of course.

Funny how in the rankings, the Sun (117) comes before the Guardian (134).  What does that say about the journalism of the Guardian?

I like to read the GUARDIAN from the UK. The news here is all slanted towards Obama if you criticise him you are called a raciest.

In the USA if I want to read fiction I read a US newspaper, if I want to read good fiction I read THE SUN from the UK!

Up here in Canada we have it even worse.At least you yanks have Fox news,we have nothing.We presently have IMO the best leader this country has had in decades,yet our state run media continue to slag the Conservatives any given chance.

Terry: Forgive me if I take some artistic license and call you a rabid, pseudo-intellectual, stupid dumb head.
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^This is Glenn Beck's latest book come to life. LOL!!

This is true, Drudge keeps taking us here. I like UK news, its refreshing and you accompany it with hot women photos. Our media (US) is so bent on becoming like you Europeans, it can't be trusted so we have to go shopping. You're still a little too smug for me but I take that comes from being a former world player like the French. Don't loose heart, remember, you couldn't get a Reagan without first having Carter

I don't know if the news media anywhere is unbiased, I just enjoy reading other people's views on what is "news". The media here in the US, including Fox, has become extremely biased. Other English speaking countries writing about news here in the US are not living and breathing the problems we are having and are therefor less biased than those here in the States.
I love the fact that every news outlet from across the Pond allows for comments. Reading reactions from other people on the news is often times more enlightening than the news story itself.

@Terry:

Your message was wrong. When Erist wrote of "drowning our country in stupid," he was using a literary device called hyperbole.

Shakespeare used it many times. He wrote: "Tears shall drown the wind," and "But floods of tears will drown my oratory."

I could probably provide nearly a dozen more examples, but presumably you get my point.

"I am afraid you are getting a very distorted view from American commentors, above. The Drudge Report is a far-right media source. Many of its followers firmly believe in Creationism, hate Obama because of their latent racism, and they tend to believe in the most outlandish foolish things like man walked with Dinosaurs just a few thousand years ago. But, these Republican raving lunatics will never touch a Philosophy book, and belief always trumps logic with them! No wonder you think we are crazy."
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JJ is rather typical of the stupidity and dishonesty that characterizes much of the left in the US these days. For starters he feels compelled to characterize Drudge as "far right" in spite of the fact that his primary appeal as a news aggregator is that he links to more stories with a conservative appeal but does not shy away from stories which do not. It is a more intellectually honest approach than you will ever find on the American left.

And even more idiotic - if nonetheless typical - is where JJ attempts to suggest that Drudge visitors are racists who deny evolution. It's interesting because I've never encountered a racist who didn't have an evolutionary basis for feeling blacks to be inferior. The left's sleazy narrative calls to mind their infinite capacity for characterizing Bush as a stupid incompetent or evil genius depending on which better served their narrative. So if you wonder why people are willing to cast their gaze abroad in search of news, it is because of all this. Namely that the American left is emotion-based, infantile and thoroughly dishonest.

The US media is hopelessly biased due to the rise of activism among professional journalists. It's more important to push a narrative or agenda than to objectively report facts. By doing this, journalists feel that they can bring about "change" in our society. So it was when they set out to get get a president elected. Likewise, as Bernard Goldberg observed, there is a political monoculture in media newsrooms which tends to favor only a certain viewpoint.

With the exception of the BBC and the Guardian, I find British news sites less biased and more willing to present multiple perspectives on news events within the USA as well as the world. Even the BBC, with its biased reporting of America and the Middle East gives broader coverage of international events than our mainstream media here in the States. I am much more likely to get information about an natural disaster in Asia or a political coup in Africa from the BBC and is where I usually go first for the story. That story might surface a few days later on CNN if it's significant enough.

The US media are scoundrels and cannot be trusted.  Figured we would get to read the truth here or at Pravda before we would see it in the NYT or the Wash Post.  Time, Newsweek, etc. are just rags,  worthy only as liners for bird cages.  Our press is in Obama's back pocket and America will never be the same after our Depression is over (in about 10-15 yrs).  Our true unemployment is around 17% and climbing and Washington does not have a clue regarding policy or solutions.  We had two million folks protesting in Washington last week and the number was reported in the "thousands" by our press.  All opposition and civil protest is labeled as racist, right-winged and lunatic.  We expect more protesting and civil disobedience on the horizon.  Just wait until the dole money runs out.  They can print money until the cows come home as we look more and more like a third world country.  Our banking system is technically bankrupt and our stock market will be worth half as much next year.
When are you Brits going to wise up and allow law abiding citizens gun ownership again?  Huge mistake you made…. you're crime is out of this world!  The highest crime areas in the US are where the government have curtailed individual owenership.  Gun ownership in the US is at an all time high as many here are expecting the worst when the Obama government runs out of lies.  Congressman Joe Wilson may have not won points of civility, in his recent outburst,  but he is right!

To Chas Warren..So you type better than me. Big deal..Go ahead genius, do the rewrite, it will reinforce my message..

IMO it's the hot women, Euros have the best pic's!

as for the drug comment, I'm pretty sure GWB was the largest chemical abuser of all of the modern day presidents.

Isn't this a basic numbers issue?  Americans are now becoming more in-tune with global issues and concerns, the election ignited a new information seeking age here, and our country is growing while the UK's population is fairly stagnant.  This doesn't seem like news.

"It’s a fact in America that cannabis smokers are deeply embedded in the socialist political movement. All liberals are not dopers, but a I garantee that all dope smokers are liberals.  Most liberals, including the national socialists (NAZI) obama, and bill klinton, admit to taking drugs early and often. You can bet any liberal posting here was smoking pot withing the last few days, TERRY! "

better watch who you insult, John. im an independant conservative who used to be a republican until the latter days of the last Bush administration. i had been a republican since 1997. i am also a heavy marijuana user and have been for almost 20 years. don't paint with such a broad brush, my friend.

Americans should just tune into FoxNews after all the majority of the UK news is run by Mr Murdoch which is also the most biased and stupid news system.

I often read news from Telegraph and Daily Mail, I like reading from the British perspective.  But I cannot stand the overly pompous 'Economist'

UK media is way more left leaning than most of you think.  You kids need to check your facts.

....BBC a credible news source? Hah! AKA British Brainwashing Channel, i wouldnt trust that news source with my life, ill stick with Fox and Drudge.

There is more of this to come and the British should take the time to understand how much they are looked upon from the rest of the world for guidance.

No one seems to do it better.

Speaking as part of that growing US audience in the UK, this study isnt suprising at all. Were starved for real news and tired of the propaganda filled liberal or conservative agendas forced down our throats in the so called"US news". I call it state run television, designed to eliminate any sense of individuality or creativity and force us all to conform to the current political ideology.

"Come and Take It"

Terry writes:

hey Erist, Take some English lessons, you can BE stupid, are you ARE stupid (like you) but you cannot DROWN in stupid (English 101)

Revised version:

Hey, Erist, take some English lessons. You can BE stupid, or you ARE stupid (like you), but you cannot DROWN in stupid (English 101).

There are still problems, but to fix all of them would have required a complete rewrite.

The U.K papers have the stories that the main stream media here in the U.S. will not report. Most of our media is agenda driven and suspect.

P.S.
After the government takes over and we are no longer citizens but subjects ( Carbon Units ) will our media be surprised to realise they arenothing but a quasi-government entity. Our Dear Leader wants to bail out newspapers now that should complete the process.
I predict that after Obama the next president would he hailed as Reagan was after Carter, evan if it was Carter who rteplaced Obama.

One other fun thing is watching Americans argue on UK websites-  They have a much more "in-your-face" approach than the Brits who seem to be able to sustain a civilized discussion for a lot longer (a credit to the UK), though not always the case.  Americans are also continually seeking new venues from which to vent their frustrations. 

The good thing is that the actual American persona is generally better behaved in person than the on-line persona you see in forums like this, so please don't hold the petty bickering etc. against them too much- it is after all IN the American character to act this way (for better or worse).

Our press has failed it's responibily to report the news and has become a left wing mouthpiece. They report what is unnews worthy and ignore what should be a national outrage.They print hitpieces under the guise of jounalism, they pursue the agendas of their masters, few are qualified to be called journalists.

While it is true that most of the news outlets in the US cover the stories from the same views, if they are covered at all, it is nice to be able to use the web to find opposing perspectives.  Any coverage of news from a single view point is slanted. The only way to develop your own opinion is to see each side of the story and reach your own decision, not rely on a single source as the "truth". Very Orwellian to have someone else do your thinking for you.

Think free, live free.

I can't stand soccer, it isn't football.

I sound like a broken record…Just looking for a reliable news source since most media outlets in the US have been "overtaken" by the bloated federal government.

We are starving for the truth here in the USA.
Obama lies.

No surprise here. The mainstream American media does a poor job of reporting the news. The Brit reporting is modestly better, and at least they will report on world events that never appear on American radar. In the USA media, Kosovo is a forgotten place, and the Tamil Tigers never even existed. Too remote, you say? Well, ask a Yank on the street what is going on in the Benelux countries, in Iceland or India. Blank stares. They don't know, and don't know they should know. Sad, really.

James, call me crazy but!

Did we not get into this mess by "Sitting on the sidelines with our refusal to debate these issues?"

We can no longer sit around and allow this to happen.

Nice try -

Several reasons-
1.  I need a European perspective on world news (as well as US news).  2.  The US news organziataions are virtually identical in what they cover and how they cover it.  3.  While I consider the UK a borderline socialist country, the press does not exhibit the same biases as the news agencies do in the USSA when covering a lot of political and related topics.  4.  I get more hard science stories frm the UK than in the USSA.

Dennis, I must disagree.

"Their main success is convincing people who would normally be against slave labor to ignore the abuses of the Communist party of Beijing."

How many Wal-mart ads do you see on Fox?  Because Wal-mart understands that people who are going to shop at Wal-mart, have no money. That why they advertise nearly eight to one (Local Media outlets versus cable) targeting individuals who live below the poverty line.

Wal-mart, as you know, is the litmus test on Chinese Goods.

The U.S. MSM have left us thirsty for the real truth.  What a shame.  After years of depending on CNN and really enjoying MSNBC, it seems sad to witness what they have become.  As a lifelong Dem who was a 24/7 news watcher, even I can't stomach the drivel coming from my former favorite news reporters.

Dennis, I must disagree.

"Their main success is convincing people who would normally be against slave labor to ignore the abuses of the Communist party of Beijing."

How many Wal-mart ads do you see on Fox?  Because Wal-mart understands that people who are going to shop at Wal-mart, have no money. That why they advertise nearly eight to one (Local Media outlets versus cable) targeting individuals who live below the poverty line.

Can't you just feel the love? We sure are united.

Hey, guess what? No matter who you are, stop dehumanizing the other side - you'll just be a pawn for the politicians. They're pitting us against each other for their own purposes.

As for the news?  It's all biased.  Think about it: the truth is usually mundane compared to sensationalized, inflammatory rubbish that sells like hotcakes.  Turn off the television and go online - at least you'll have a choice that way.  Use your common sense - the difference between fact and opinion is not an abstract concept.

Perpetuating dehumanization of those who are different from ourselves, ("Us vs. them") will only play into the hands of the politicians.  The other side are real people with real families and hopefully real jobs.  Inevitably our ideals differ; consider carefully whom you label the enemy.

No surprise here. Our media worked hard to get Obama elected and now has to save face by covering his incompetence and socialist agendas. Which, of course, means biased reporting and ignoring stories so unfavorable to Obama that they can't even slant them in his favor. Still, it's fun to watch their readership and viewership dwindle.

If both Americans and Brits crave information that is not controlled by the an ever increasingly Orwellian establishment, then check out:

InfoWars.com

This is run out of Austin, Texas - at the heart of the USA. None of the usual East/West Coast controlled media paradigm. And staunchly pro US constitution and individual liberty. The InfoWars are fully cognizant that both Democrats and Republicans are controlled from the top and utterly corrupt. These two parties always come together on core globalist issues, like NAFTA, WTO, and perpetuating the cover-up of 9-11 being an inside job.

There are no govts and no major media sources that take a position to be pro human liberty any more - both US and British media are all mouth pieces for statism. The value of British media links is they aren't always taking exactly the same marching orders as US media so occasionally expose some aspects that the US media will censor (Charlie Sheen's 20 minutes with the president got better exposure in UK media than in mainstream media of US).

We need acknowledge that corporate news sources in Amerika are lining up with Rupert Murdoch and Newscorp.  Their commitment to make the Communist Party of China happy is quite well documented.  Their main success is convincing people who would normally be against slave labor to ignore the abuses of the Communist party of Beijing.

Is this website in any way connected to Rupert Murdoch and Newscorp?  I would like to know.

Tea-parties have a profound effect on the political system here in the United States by forcing elected officials to recognize dissent against their bullying tactics.

From the political-rights perspective, we citizens are no longer going to tolerate being shoveled into the status quo by corrupt fear-mongers who utilize the 'media' to attack any individual with enough foresight to recognize that the dissolution of America is taking place from within. 

What needs to happen, in my opinion, is that the fight needs to be taken not only to the politicians, but also to the very source of their propaganda machine…........

People, we as independent thinkers, need to grab their signs and banners and start protesting in front of the 'media' outlets, starting at the local level (Affiliate stations) - Not protesting governmental politics, but protesting the 'medias' participation and lack of Journalistic integrity. We need to take the fight to all levels and call-out these bigots, call them out on their willing participation in the disassembly of our great union.

Pass laws that warn weak minded individuals that these outlets are nothing more than propaganda machines . If they can put parental advisory stickers on my rock-n-roll albums, I am sure that ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NPR, and the others could just as easily warn people of their political affiliation, and that the majority of their content is not true Journalism, but slanted and skewed opinion aimed at manipulating facts and opinions.

Get out your signs people, start protesting the media in front of their offices - It's not like you have to worry about getting coverage.

email me and I will send you free links for free signs and material as I put it together - I AM TICKED-OFF (mike@difusi.com)

If US Lefties don't like Fox News or Drudge they have plenty of alternatives for their news NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, MSNBC, PBS, The Daily KOS, and almost every American newspaper I don't know why they have to turn to British Media.
They should be very happy with the status quo propaganda.

"The Drudge Report is an extreme right-wing media clearing house. "

I guess you're not familiar with it, other than what you've "heard". Drudge basically LINKS to OTHER news stories. I still have a problem understanding how you can call it an extreme right-wing source when all he does is link to OTHER news sites. Sheesh.

Our media never listen to us , so now we don't listen to them. If they want my money they had better change their liberal ways , if not I can surf the web for real news.

Just look at the comments from my fellow Americans.  It's like that everywhere.  No news item survives without becoming personalized and polarized.  Every supporting view is an "Obamabot" and every dissenting view is "racist."  While I disapprove of the histrionics, Pelosi is right, we're on a course to violence.

I go to the British news sites because the view of our country is more objective.  Besides, I've been a Doctor Who fan since I was five.  Even the alien invasions know that the UK is the center of the universe.  :-)

Yeah I'm a yank on your news sites everyday.
The American News Media is in the Toilet (that would be the Loo to ya'll) and in the Tank for Obamo.
I havent learned anything new from the US news media in the last 4 years.
The BBC leans left we know it but they cover the world like no one else and we appreciate it.
Righty then Ta Ta..

we read the UK papers (news) because our 'state run media' is bias, liberal, and refuses to report any actual news.  ABC, NBC, CBS, and CNN have been called out - they are a sad excuse for news outlets. Keep up the actual journalism - its dead here in the US (except for Fox News - go figure).

Since most Americans only speak English and no longer trust the domestic media (which is biased), why is this a surprise.

yeah what a shame we have to go out country to get reliable news.  Shame on the Maimed Stream Media in America

No surprise.  The State Run Media in the US is not providing any news of what is going on here with the Obama takeover of our country.  Last Sunday Obama was on ALL of the news programs in the same day touting his propaganda.

I like to compare news stories overseas to what is being said here in the US. It helps me get a better perspective on what is going on in the world.
Have to love technology…

We have to go to the UK to get any real facts concerning Obama, the media here are TOTALY in the bag

I have to go to UK sites to get a more complete picture of what is actually happening. The US MSM is incredibly biased towards teh expansion of governemnt power. We saw this with bush 2 as even the NYT and Washington Post provided left cover for the warmongering that W did. We saw it during hte election as the media picked the primary winners by promoting the "serious" candidates like warmongering McCain and not allowing popular candidates like Ron Paul into key debates.

Now we continue to see it as all the MSM outlets campaign for ever bigger bailouts of and gifts for Goldman Sachs…climate and Swine flu hysteria.  It is currently a mantra in US MSM that anyone who disagrees with government policies is automatically a racist and probably a holocaust denier.

I went to MIT and have studied markets, economics, math and science my whole life. I just appreciate seeing a POV that is filtered in a different way than most US media outlets

Somehow I always thought the news appeared more credible or sounded more respectable when read from a British newspaper or listened to from the BCC. Even nature shows sounded better when narrorated by David Attenbourgh.

It is almost impossible to find NEWS Reported
Truthfully in the United States….

I read British news to see how bad western civilization is getting, and it usually confirms my feelings. The media is just as bad in Europe, it's all own by corporations or the state. We never get the truth, the masses are treated like cattle and they act like it. Republicans vs Democrats is a total sham that's sold by the media. They are 2 wings on the same bird, no change in foreign policy since Obama took office. He took 50 thousand troops out of Iraq in put them in A-Stan, then put 50 thousand military contractors back into Iraq, is that change?

Duh! Its the page 3 girls.
Kristopher
Rockwall
Texas

The bottom line is that news from the UK comes across as more diverse.  News agencies report on the same two - five issues all day every day.  Quite frankly, it is boring and just feels watered down.

I download the BBC news podcast and read UK news all of the time. It is useful to gain a outside insight to what is happening in the US and English news sights help with this. Sometimes I disagree with the coverage (remembering coverage of New Orleans and why we are not rebuilding - we don't want to rebuild because it will just flood again someday). Thank you England, you are a friend of the US and I enjoyed my visit to your country.

As a black American, let me say that Fox news is biased… to the Left! That's right, Fox news is like CNN 7 years ago! Murdoch was in the bag for Hillary before the primaries, how right wing can that be? And that Shepard guy?  The sad truth is that as liberal as Fox news is, it appears right wing because of the severity of Leftism of all the other media.  CNN is just ridiculous, I use it as a legal steroid like substance to increase my bench press!  The fact of the matter is, we know bullcrap when we smell it; and we can read between the lines as well.  You take any NY Times story, and we can figure out what really happened, but the UK story's are a slight relief in liberal stench, in that they don't obfuscate the facts as much as our home grown fellow travelers!

stop notifying me

What first drew me to English news sites was sheer curiosity.  I wanted to know if Americans were as cordially hated as I had heard from our own "media".  I was happy to learn that we were not.  Second, I can't bear the sound or sight of the likes of MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS or NBC.  Goosestepping liberal loons all, marching in lockstep in Obama-worship.  I get my news from the Telegraph, Fox News, World Net Daily, and I read the Daily Mail for fun.  Even the Weather Channel has drunk the Kool-Aid.  Every day they show a live shot of the White House and report on the weather there.  They did not do that when Dubya was president.

Hello England ~..~  The reason we read your newspapers so much is that "...we cannot trust our media to tell the truth, or even a "close truth".  How is that for distrusting your own government???  It is a sad state in which we live here.  My congratulations to your freedom of press and due diligence on their part for printing life the way it is.  The United States government is a strong believer in "keeping the working class baffled with "*@*#" in the misguided belief that we actually believe them.  The recent tea parties and petitions to our government is proof of that, they have all fallen on deaf ears.  And so, we bond to England, among other, for our truths.  Again, my congratulations to your press, job well done !!!

Erist:

Unlike WWII, I don't think you needed our help. It appears you were already there…stupid.

That's because the UK sites report news that the US media SHOULD be reporting, but won't because of the extreme liberal agenda of the goobermint.

that is because I can get more Truth out of
English papers than American papers.
I also read Der Speigel online as well

It is true that many UK publications are much more liberal than their US counterparts.  The difference though is that papers like the Guardian do not try to hide behind a pretense of being balanced.  Time magazine, the New York Times, and their ilk actually think they are fooling all of the people all of the time.  And from judging some of the comments here (I do not need to name mames), they are able to fool some of the people all of the time.

Hey John!

The Taliban aren't conservative, they are a totalitarian terrorist organization.  Sort of like Obamaist like you.

Hope you see what us normal middle class Americans are up against. You can read the comments that insult us and insult the few non-biased new sources we have left, Drudge and Fox. Our govt is destroying the financial base the middle class worked hard for and enjoyed. I appreciate the there is somewhere to go to get real facts and not the Obama infomercial.

It's a fact in America that cannabis smokers are deeply embedded in the socialist political movement. All liberals are not dopers, but a I garantee that all dope smokers are liberals.  Most liberals, including the national socialists (NAZI) obama, and bill klinton, admit to taking drugs early and often. You can bet any liberal posting here was smoking pot withing the last few days, TERRY!

With "Baghdad Bob" Gibbs in full spin mode for Commissar Obama and his Leftist Socialist Thugs, and with the Alphabet Channels in Obama's pocket bearing a remarkable resemblance to Goebbels Nazi Propaganda network, Americans thirst for some shread of the truth should be understandable. It may well be time for American Revolution 2.0 .

Great to see there are only two automatons, Erist and JJ, posting here.  They get all their scripts from Robert "Goebbels" Gibbs and have not had a thought of their own since kindergarten.  Mind c0ntrol is a terrible thing to waste just like a good crisis and BO and his ilk take full advantage of these drones.
I lived in England for five years and know you lot are way down the PC rabbit hole but there is some critical thought still going on in your press so it's good to have access to it.

to answer neda azadi…..please don't forget that Immelt was also named to the Federal Reserve, along with the union President of the AFL-CIO.  Immelt was never fully investigated for his economic ties to Iran, and whatever happened to the investigation of GE's dumping PCB's into the Hudson River, contaminating it greatly.

No wonder Olberman is allowed to "rant" the way he does…he obviously has free rein…  I apologize for the 3rd post

I'm from the USA and besides the least left as possible US sites, I keep 3 British sites on my list for counterpoint. Forget the NYT, MSNBC sites etc. When I want democratic party news I'll go to the DNC site where left wing bias should be expected.

this is an answer to Mark in Afghanistan…this issue regarding voting is whether Acorn has succeeded in illegally registering too many voters to affect any possible "change".
The last election was rife with fraud, and the next may be in the bag, because of the damage done by Acorn.  This was always the key to the "shotless overthrow".

The other "key" was in having Acorn handle the Census.

Acorn is at the CRUX of this overthrow.  It must be investigated, and the Damage must be undone.

The United States press have the right to publish the unvarnished truth, they just do not have the ability. (apologies to Ron White)

The world should know that an overthrow of our current system of government has been going on without a "shot".  The government now has ownership interest in our auto, banking, insurance, and now possibly in the "press"(talk about a bailout of the newspapers).Hollywood has been complicit in aiding this overthrow of our system of government.  Please continue to speak the truth.  Our only defense against this internal takeover seems to be Fox and the internet bloggers.

Jason, sorry babe it doesn't take a government to check a corporation, it simply takes citizens who vote with their pocketbooks. Sorry “Right Wing Libertarians” do not support the likes of CBS, PBS or CNN et al. They may however support the likes of Fox News, Rush, Sean, Mark Levin and Glenn Beck which is why those entities are succeeding in such fabulous style.t

May I post a 2nd comment please… after reading the comments here thus far… it seems near unanimous the reason the British press is getting more and more USA eyeballs is because the "news" here is no longer "news" but propaganda and opinion shaping. Some of us in America are enlightened, and see what is really going on.

Republicans are wrong on so many levels. It's time to evolve, my little Republicans. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnrHL1B58zM&feature=featured

To John and JJ. If so many idiots had not voted in an inexperienced usurper we would not be half as bad here now. The right wing you criticize is made up of normal Americans who work hard and do not want to be trod on. You on the other hand love Acorn and all that goes with it. The American people are tired of our tax dollars going to groups like that. We are tired of financing banks and auto companies and now newspapers. We just want to have the say in our lives. Not the government. We need to follow our Constitution which some people crap on daily. We do not all feed at the hand of the big nut. It is not color of the skin we worry about it is the birth certificate he won't produce even to just shut folks up. So we see a scandal. It is our money being thrown away. We think if they waste our money without our consent then they can pay it back themselves. I don't pay for stuff my neighbor buys. Stay out of my wallet. I can spend my own money thank you. You lazy left wing nuts need to get a job and stop wanting handouts.

FOX is the worst offender in America. FOX is news in the same way that McDonald’s is food. I am willing to pay for a BBC online subscription if a premium news service if offered.
**********************************BBC is better then anything considered MSM in America but it has still itself admitted to it's own bias (Left of course).

The simple facts are FOX is despised by the Liberals because it DARES to air the stories they want kept from the American people. To simply AMAZING examples are the VAN JONES and ACORN stories, both ignored by the liberal media until FOX forced them to acknowledge them.

The American liberal media has totally abrogated its respomsibility as watchdog of the government for the American people and instead has become a wholly directed subsidiary of the Democrat Party.

It is only FOX stands alone with the American people against the growing cancer that is the combination of the main stream media and our elected Administration. It is the truth and balance that FOX brings to concerned Americans which so frightens the Left here and causes them to so despise the network.

The one thing the Left cannot tolerate is any challende to their message. the truth cannot be allowed to surface if they are to be successful and that is why they are so desperate to control the news.

I suggest you all look into what Josef Goebbels had to say on this matter. To wit:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

and

“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over”

  http://thinkexist.com/quotation/-if_you_tell_a_lie_big_enough_and_keep_repeating/345877.html

chris - the only problem with small government and the rights of the individual you say that the founding fathers believed in is that there was not large multinational corporations raping the general public and many countries in which they operate. The States need the large governement to move in and crush these guys when they get out of hand. If you say these are the very organisations which have the government in their pocket well then why would there exist the need for a more social tilting government party if they were pandering to business executives and the large conglomerates?

As for the media, there is a need for indepoendent media but it is the right wing libertarians who buy the media not the left - the left get the votes from the people. People from the industrial and working classes through more ground based organisations such as Unions and commuinity organisations.

The internet has increased the access to news sources beyond traditional sources. People seem to intuitively recognize the difference between genuine news reporting and manufactured news driven by an agenda. This explains the movement to overseas sources on the internet as most media in the USA is dumbed down to a level that will not hold the interest of a large sector of "real news" consumers.

Unlike most here, I'm a fairly conventional liberal Democratic, an early (and now regretful) Obama supporter. Having read the NYT daily since the early '80's, most of the time with a subscription, though loathing the real BBC from many years listening abroad, my newspapers these days are the Guardian first, Times second, and Telegraph third. The Guardian is obviously slanted (it's kind of the point) and full of loonies, but they're all free thinkers and not apparatchiks. Haven't read a single US news outlet since half-way through the primary season. What would be the point? Even from a left perspective the Mail is more serious than the times, partly because they take themselves less seriously. And they're certainly all better written, as ever. The NYT and Post used to beat them in terms of professionalism and reliability but those are the last two words I would apply to either today. To Americans who want a paper everyone can read, try the Times; conservatives will be more at home with the Telegraph than with Fox, the liberals will learn a thing or two about communicating with our citizenry without insulting them from the Guardian.

Faux Noise has mastered the art of trying to make the news and not report the news. Rupert Murdoch and his sadistic empire of propogandists have successfully stroked the small minds of hateful Republicans. Ordinarily, they would be a laughable lot, if they hadn't spawned so much hatred on racial, religious and partisan levels.

This is because the USA has lost it's free - independent - uncensored by the "Powers that be" free press. Soon we will loose our country. The US and world economic collapse is coming down the tracks like a freight train…and will not be derailed. We have consolidated all our media outlets into the hands of a group of men who would fit in a booth at Denny's. These men care not for real news journalism - but the shaping of opinion to their own agendas and profit. Dan Rather had some interesting things to say… watch this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ckeqIoZz9c

I also enjoy British reporting of U.S. issues. The next best source is "Russia Today".

Calling Fox News the "best news source in America" is like claiming the title of "tallest midget". Fox went to crap when they hired Geraldo Rivera. I'm not ascribing cause-and-affect, merely noting the correlation. That's the same time period that they stopped focusing on news, and started focusing on opinionated punditry.

As a Canadian closely observing US politics & the media, all I can say is I'm not the least bit surprised! 

The US media is quickly committing suicide.  The funny part is that they seem to be completely oblivious to the massive anger and resentment brewing.

I think we all need a world-wide civil war with the lefties on one side and the righters on the other. Let's just shoot it out. Get it over with. It awfully apparent that each side is just so convinced that the other is better than the other. Gloves-off, only rule is that no one can tell a lie.

Who would win?

Would'nt it be a beautiful world without your Brown and our Obama. If they could just move in with Putin, and leave us to start fresh.

As an American, I find British reporting to be more refined and researched. In contrast our American papers have devolved into opinion pieces.

I like the UK news because because you are even more wacky than us. Did they really pad lampposts in London to protect cell phone texters?

A quick google search confirms that the US population is five times that of the UK. I'm curious if the traffic stats show anything in the neighborhood of 5 to 1.

"MSNBC all the way."

Is that jeff immelt?

LOLOLOL!  You mean GE controlled uber-obama-friendly media???

In other news:  "Obama helps strengthen General Electric-Putin ties"

For those confused, a little context:

GE CEO Jeff Immelt sits on Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, and GE owns MSNBC, the network famously friendly to Obama.

well we can't get balanced and true news accounts in our country because of the Maimed Stream Media are so biased and in favor of Democrats and Obama

fox news? are you kidding me? why would anyone in their right mind trust fox news that is the most biased organization ever.  Its such an awful thing that the news is controlled by "a GOVERNMENT RUN, STATE MEDIA here in Amerika" and that means that they worship the chosen one, whooo scary what is this a George Orwell novel? Now really do you believe the news that tells you its our natural born right to bring a loaded fire arm to a presidential rally or do you believe the news organization that actually will discuss a real issue in our country and doesn't fantasize about killing the leader of our country? MSNBC all the way.

JJ wrote:

"I am afraid you are getting a very distorted view from American commentors, above. The Drudge Report is a far-right media source. Many of its followers firmly believe in Creationism, hate Obama because of their latent racism, and they tend to believe in the most outlandish foolish things like man walked with Dinosaurs just a few thousand years ago. But, these Republican raving lunatics will never touch a Philosophy book, and belief always trumps logic with them! No wonder you think we are crazy. "

You see, want to understand what has befallen us in America and what we are grappling with these days, read jj's comments.  That's the state of affairs in US.  Day is night and night day, light is darkness, up is down and wrong is right and the most ignorant self-righteous little prick morons are feeling their oats and empowered obamabot soldiers. 

There is much to clean up in 2010 though as a lifelong [traditional/true] liberal it breaks my heart to have to admit that!

British news is written in English.

Americans speak, read and write in English.

Call me crazy, but I think Americans might just be a natural and ready consumer of British news and entertainment.

It also helps that you guys are much more transparent than our news outlets and offer a healthy variety of diverse views and opinions.

Plus we just wanna know what's up over yonder.

Pip pip, cheery-o, God save the Queen and all that.

I have to agree with most on here.  I enjoy reading the British press.  They have a very different way of looking at things (some I agree with, others I do not).  When it comes to American politics it can be (for me) quite enlightening.  Usually because they have nothing vested in it so they can really say whatever they want and their public won't really get bent either way.

The perspective is that of an outsider watching the circus.  Since I'm apart of the circus they're watching, of course, my opinions will be quite different then theirs.  Either way it tends to help me put things into perspective.

Even though Jeremy Clarkson is the only writer at the BBC that isn't a liberal fairy, we have no choice but to get some of our news from the UK. No matter how left leaning you all are, at least you don't have a horse in the race as our mainstream media does over here.

I just like to check in once in a while just to see what new level of Orwellian despotism your country has reached.

I enjoy the British media. I enjoy their unique and creative style of writing coupled with truely incisive wit and humor.  In addition the excellence in the grammer provide a wonderful lesson in the English language. I have no idea why our so called media are paid such big bucks and some relatively unknown writer probably much lower paid in the UK can leave them in shreds.  Money really can not buy you happiness or a quality journalist apparently.

I cling to my guns and my religion when times are rough.  Although Oboma is not my messiah.

When stories like Charlie Sheen's "20 Minutes With the President" can be completely ignored for the real substance that they represent, how can you expect us to continue to worry about whether or not President Obama thinks Kanye West is a jackass?
He is, but I'm more concerned about who is jacking my country and I want a fair and balanced perspective from a far.
You Brits can see the forest for the trees, at least where American politics are concerned. Whether The Sun, or The Daily Mail. . .  I love my British news!

Something huge is happening in the U.S. and (aside from a few hit pieces on people like Glenn Beck) the mainstream is intentionally refusing to report it.  We are quickly turning into Venezuela over here with most of the media becoming state-controlled.

It's really no wonder that Americans are turning elsewhere for their news.

Go back and read JJ's comment…...a perfect example of the ignorance of the anti-religious bigots here in the United States.

The American mainstream media have abandoned any pretense of objectivity.  Americans have lost all confidence in our so-called journalists.

A perfect example of why Americans distrust the U.S. mainstream media is the ACORN scandal. This organization had been suspected of corruption on several occasions, but largely it was ignored or given a pass from the media, possible because of its relationship to the Democrat party.  (Yes I know, Bush also helped with its funding, at taxpayer expense.) When the main story broke it wasn't the mainstream media that exposed the story, it wasn't even FOX, although they were among the first to air the video. Rather, it was a couple of kids posing as a badly dressed pimp and a prostitute. They didn't get their info off the AP, they were doing the job that reporters used to do, digging for a story!! Then after the story broke, no one touched it until at least five embarrassing tapes were aired. The rest of the media almost had to be dragged kicking and screaming, to a HUGE story. Whether you agree or disagree with the tactics used to get the story, or even if these kids were 'right wing' (gasp!), is not the story itself relevant when taxpayer dollars go to fund ACORN? Our media didn't think so.

As far as why we go to the British press for news, sometimes it is a good idea to step outside of the internal squabbling of our national discourse and get a fresh prospective. The Brits may not have a 'dog in the fight' in any given U.S. story and can be more objective, and objectivity is something our press has lost a long time ago.

The Honduran Supreme court ordered the arrest of Zelaya for clear violation of their constitution. It was a unanimous vote and the majority of the court are members of the impeached president's party.  It was overwhelmingly supported by the Honduran congress which is controlled by the former president's party. Robert Michelletti is the number two man in the former president's party and speaker of their parliament.  You sound like American socialists.  This was not coup.

Folks like JJ spew their drivel because their brains are devoid of an ability to think.  Mind numbed robots!

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheAlexJonesChannel

Newspapers are best used for wiping your backside…  And television news is a joke….  Neither have much to do with the truth…...

You have real news, not recycled socialist propaganda

I have to add this on… I have been coming to UK sites for years, and it is not just one news source.  I also check out an Aussie paper, one from Israel and one from Pakistan.

So those who say I link to this because I am a nut from the Republican party,  pull your head out of your hole and wake up,  stop drinking the kool-aid and being a sheep.  Your getting screwed, and your hate has totally shut down your common sense.

Our MSM has this bad habit of thinking it is they who decide what is news and what isn't. Because of this, they have either sat on big stories, e.g. not reported them, or buried them on page 20 or the tenth paragraph of the story. They also seem to spin everything. We want to knwo what is happening so we have to go somewhere that puts the story out there for us to form our opinions on.  We have a very dishonest government right now but hopefully we'll change that starting next year.

Tim is being silly.

Agree with most here.  I only trust Fox and UK sites (not BBC though) for real news coverage in the USA.

The other US media is now state controlled by the current administration and Democratic Party.  Its so painfully obvious that it would be funny if wasn't so painful.

What is it with peoples infatuation for the term, our friends "across the pond".  You wannabe metrosexuals just can't wait to get on a news site and reuse the term again and again.

Unfortunately, most of the media companies over here in the US are just puppets of the Obama administration.  The news is so biased it is embarrassing.

Greeting's From DetroitJungle, mostly good folks.
I like drudge,?Right Wing? Try checking his facts, for folks who doubt,I have alot.Drudge is close and perhaps the lefty's or the state-ist Idiot's,Who think real news exist on CNN<NBC<OR -MSLSD,ABC.TIME/NEWSWEEK.ETC
It is what they are not telling Unhyphenated Americans,I hate there labels.I am a Constitutional moderate,A registered independent,I believe what the founders of America Believed.Limited Federal Government,Individual rights supreme.And responsibility for it.

I am a shining light in a sea of Detroit Jungle downward motion,for 35 years exclusive democrat party control.
republicans no better..I am so sick of seeing my town Destroyed.And The vapid news media giving corrupt State-ist Operating our country a pass every problem we have caused by that FEDZILLA gov. and the main stream media Blows nasty bile',,YAH give me alternatives UK fine for me
I think you guys rock,god Save the Queen,,And god Bless America

to you from what is being allowed to be left of my beloved Detroit.CES

cant read too much in the American press now that it is state run. Much of the US media (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, USA Today the Washington Post, The New York Times, The LA Times to name just a few) still claims a few tens of thousands marched on Washington DC on Sept. 12. despite the fact that photos and Park Police put the number over 1 million. The most polite and civil angry mob in history with no huge trash heap left behind.

cant read too much in the American press now that it is state run. Much of the US media (CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NBC, USA Today the Washington Post, The New York Times, The LA Times to name just a few) still claims a few tens of thousands marched on Washington DC on Sept. 12. despite the fact that photos and Park Police put the number over 1 millionark . The most polite and civil angry mob in history with no huge trash heap left behind.

Try posting a comment in an American publication. It will be deflected to some back alley that no one will ever see.

Terry: ???

Erist, careful mate, your class is showing.

I read the UK Sun newspaper every day and enjoy it.  They are much more fun than the US papers.

During the Bush-Cheney Debacle, Americans such as myself turned to the BBC and other foreign news providers in Europe and Russia in search of facts and perspective. It is obvious that news in America is largely propaganda and lies. I rely upon the Drudge Report, the BBC, and Google Alerts as my news portals. FOX is the worst offender in America. FOX is news in the same way that McDonald's is food. I am willing to pay for a BBC online subscription if a premium news service if offered.

Terry: Forgive me if I take some artistic license and call you a rabid, pseudo-intellectual, stupid dumb head.

hey Erist, Take some English lessons, you can BE stupid, are you ARE stupid (like you) but you cannot DROWN in stupid (English 101)

BTW.  It's only a matter of time before they begin to point their vitriol at the papers in the UK for reporting what is going on in America.  In some cases it is already happening.

This is what America is dealing with.  You have people that hate places like the Drudge Report or Fox because they report the news.  The Drudge Report only points to news stories from hundreds of different media outlets.  They are no more conservative then the outlets they point to.

They get worked up by the messenger because they don't like the message.  A good analogy is these people would attack the newsboy for shouting a headline that they didn't like.

The libs in this country treat their political affiliation as more of a religion.  Logic and reason go out the window as they spew hatred at the 'heretics' that dare tell them they might be mistaken.

All reporting everywhere has bias and every reader everwhere has bias. Bias has no relation to credibility if the bias is acknowledged. Newsflash all of the reporting that a reader thinks is 'unbiased' simply shares the same bias as the reader (so it is unnoticeable). Bias is unavoidable because writing requires an assumed point of view as an observer. It is much better to read news with multiple biases than to simply stick to one that seems to have no-bias (which is simply the reader not understanding that this just signifies a shared bias).

I have written PBS on a few occasions to be more like the BBC. Our PBS has such an obvious liberal, and more hideous, politically correct bent.

Fox news is the biggest remaining source of anywhere-near credible news in the US.  The Obama regime is about to have to bailout its mainstream sources of propaganda because non Kool-Aid drinkers are ignoring them.  Somebody might want to see how Americans are relying on news from just about anywhere else in the world (not just the UK) for news.  Can the non-US media publicizing more info on where and when the next tea parties will be in the US?  US mainstream media's not reporting it.

The bias of the US television networks (ABC, NBC, CBS) is such that all credibility is lost.  Keep in mind almost half of those who made the effort to vote did not vote for the current administration.  The US 'mainstream' media would very much like to have you think otherwise.  What you are seeing reflected on this site is true gratitude for any possible honest reporting…  it is scarce at best across the pond.

Our US media is having a love fest with Obama, and NOT reporting the news without a bias.  If they get off their knees from servicing Obama and his staff with their tongues, we may start trusting them again.

Dear JJ,    I don't believe in creationism, don't hate Obama, know dinosaurs predated humans by millions of years and majored in philosophy at an Ivy-league school. That said, I'm here for the same reasons as the majority of posters. Perhaps you should consider getting your info about Republicans from a source other than American main-stream media.

See all these comments from rabid "anti-socialists"? They all watch Fox News. All of them.

Save us from these nutjobs, please. They're drowning our country in stupid.

To Megan: Sep 21, 2009 6:41 PM
Just like “nomoreapologies” the only creditable news media in the states is FOX…............ So thanks to drudgereport with your links we are able to be better informed.
Megan
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Spot on. Unbelievably biased news reporting here is US at national level. Local/state reporting is still fairly accurate but at the top with the major networks and national papers, it is extremely difficult to get true facts.
Fox, Wall Street Journal and some others are somewhat reasonable even if leaning slightly right but if not for them, i.e. Acorn travesty, we wouldn' t get anything other than a TV schedule of what Obama is doing and who's crying now !

Most english-language news, regardless of the country of origin, has an equal impact on my daily life (i.e. very little) so if it is interesting and informative I will read it.

Hey Brits - Even though Our Chosen One, Barack Obama, returned your gracious gift of Winston Churchill's bust, and dumped off a bunch of crappy DVDs in the process, we still love you guys!

I go for Page 3

I am afraid you are getting a very distorted view from American commentors, above. The Drudge Report is a far-right media source. Many of its followers firmly believe in Creationism, hate Obama because of their latent racism, and they tend to believe in the most outlandish foolish things like man walked with Dinosaurs just a few thousand years ago. But, these Republican raving lunatics will never touch a Philosophy book, and belief always trumps logic with them! No wonder you think we are crazy.

I just get really tired of watching porn.
I can't pay you, but I could, say, transcribe 10 seconds of audio in exchange for, say, ten fantasy dollars.
What would this news site give me for ten fantasy dollars?

We could even get google to keep the accounts.

Well of course we are reading the UK press.

They are not in the bag for Barack Obama, unlike the American press.

To John
Speak for yourself you moron, of course the people that post here are right wing, better that you idiots that still believe Obama is the Messiah.

Well, yeah - Where else will we get "real news" besides from another country?

And the print media wonder why they will need a bailout??.. when American people need to turn to the British new media to get a fair and balanced view of America, circulation will drop, as these biased newspapers have seen. We are seeing the same thing reflected in the electronic media too.. Fox is the only channel not hurting.. God Bless Murdoch and Fox.

I'm sure the news in the UK is just as slanted in many ways as the press in US, however it's nice to see factual information in UK news…most US news is opinion based w/very few facts and of course, almost all favorable to Obama and company.  I cannot understand why any companies are advertising w/the media especially since no one I know ever patronizes any of the major media.  Talk about throwing money away.  Thanks for the availability of your US news for us "astroturf"!

Could it be that US news is HEAVILY biased?

Did I just say that? OOH My ..

The 'diversity police' are after me now!

The Drudge Report is an extreme right-wing media clearing house. Please don't think that the Americans that comment on your websites via referral from their are by any means typical Americans. They are as conservative as the Taliban.

Americans cannot rely on US 'mainstream' media.  They are busy reading from their tele-prompters and have no idea of what is going on.  Charlie Gibson had no idea of the corruption that ACORN is involved in.  Journalism is dead here.  They couldn't even get a correct count on the 9-12ers in DC.  Only Fox and web sites give any unbiased positions and news.  I am sure there are persons working on silencing the 'net' so as to eliminate the truth from being told.

It's difficult for U.S. news editors and reporters to convey with any candor or accuracy happenings at the White House when they are typically sprawled before their deity in dutiful worship and prayer.

The news media in the United States—with some exceptions—are nothing more than glassy-eyed zombies. Their "news" coverage consists enitrely press releases written in the West Wing and relayed to the public without alteration.

So, sadly, as an American, I have to seek information from overseas sources which lack the cult-like adoration of Obama found among "journalists" in our country.

Is anyone from the UK going to comment?

Journalism is nonexistent in America these days with the Obama media networks.  It is a good thing that the old Soviet Union's plan to infest our academia, news media and hollywood with marxists did not come to fruition before their downfall or we would really be screwed. Oh wait! Damn the bad luck.  The media is failing because they are not worth the paper their stories are written on and Obama now is considering a newspaper bailout.  How did that old Soviet saying go?  "There is no Pravda in Izvestia, and there is no Izvestia in Pravda". Let capitolism take its toll.  They produce trash they crash.

I prefer some honest news rather than the state run pablum of the new fringe media in the states

I cannot stomach our media here in the States, and I do realize that the media sources slant so very hard to the left in the UK, but at least once in awhile we can find information that we cannot find in the US at all.  One world government, ......why does everyone think it is so great?  Do you think it is a bit funny that we have third world nations in charge of the UN at times, wagging their fingers at the WEST.  Yet we meekly swallow their drivel while their own nations are falling apart, we have become pathetic.

I especially enjoy the Daily Mail.

I have been turning to U.K. Daily Mail for about six months now.  The "mainstream" US media is now state-run.

It is shocking how many horror stories about the UK healthcare system there are!

We cannot trust our media to tell us the truth or cover a story at all, let alone cover it objectively. The state run media have abandon their position as watch dog and instead have become advocates for the socialists. What they seem to not grasp is that many many Americans have no trust in them. Something else they seem to be forgeting is that if their is a civil insurrection, they are probably very close to the top of the list since it was their biased coverage that brought the socialist agenda to our country.

Journalism is dead in America.  And everyone knows it.

Since our American press is in the back pocket of one political party, and they filter ALL the news to fit their agenda,  Americans can no longer trust the American press.  The fourth estate has become a fifth column.

We are thankful we can get the REAL story though the UK press and elsewhere in the world.

This trend will undoubtedly continue until U.S. visitors realize that many U.K. media outlets slant further left than the NYT (BBC and Guardian, I'm looking at you).

I would hardly call the BBC a credible news org.

Most Traffic Growth To UK News Sites Is Coming From U.S.

Yeah, like this one.

With all the scandals breaking in and around the Obama administration, it falls on the alternative New Media - Fox Drudge, Breitbart, the blogs - to provide us with the accurate credible, UNBIASED information the Obama hidebound statist sources no longer have the backbone to provide.

It is a pleasure to read UK and other sources with factual information, (one exception being Reuters insisting the removal of Zelaya from Honduras is a coup), knowing you have no agenda to meet.

Just give us the truth. We CAN handle it.

"but there are few sites of sucess yet."

sights?????

Like others, I come for "real" journalism and news. All our leading American newspapers and news outlets only report what the White House tells them to, and hides, slants, or ignores any news that might reflect badly on the Democratic Party here.  The newspapers in the U.S. are as bad as Pravda.

www.infowars.com

Just like "nomoreapologies" the only creditable news media in the states is FOX.  All other American Mainstream Media is so beholden to the current administration and their "personal interests" that ignore important and true "negative" stories that would reflect badly to "their" agenda.  Instead much our the Network stories/broadcast are full of propaganda it's disgusting.  We want the truth good, bad, and ugly and we just aren't getting it here anymore. So thanks to drudgereport with your links we are able to be better informed.

WE now have a GOVERNMENT RUN, STATE MEDIA here in Amerika, State Media only praises and worships the chosen one.

We crave credible news and it seems only to be from over there.

We like to see what our friends across the pond are reporting.  We like Daniel Hannan.  We love your soccer.

No surprise here. With the so-called "mainstream" media infatuation with the current socialist agenda in the U.S., most of us are desperate for credible news sources, that are untainted by political hysteria- particularly of the left-leaning persuasion.