Quotes of the Day

"I warrant you, you shall find the ceremonies of the wars, and the cares of it, and the forms of it . . . to be otherwise."
--Shakespeare, Henry V

"We're absolutely sick and tired of putting things out and finding they're not true. The misinformation in this war is far and away worse than any conflict I've covered, including the first Gulf war and Kosovo."
--senior BBC news source

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Bad News, Good News

It's hard to find a truly objective source of news these days. Many of the US networks (cable and broadcast) seem to be either caught up in jingoism or too willing to accept information from "official" sources that later turns out to exagerated or just plain wrong (including stories about "uprisings" that turned out to be largely wishful thinking). The more objective sources, in my opinion, are British: the BBC and the British newspaper/website The Guardian. I watch BBC World newscasts on WLIW (Channel 21 in the New York City area) and check the Guardian Unlimited website frequently. The BBC website offers a live audio feed.

The BBC, by the way, has the best news theme music I've heard on TV lately. Instead of the bombastic orchestral fanfares that US news shows favor, it's electronic and funky (yet "serious" sounding), with a pulsing dance beat.