skybytch 273 #1 January 30, 2008 Hopefully this can stay out of SC... For my Modern Asian Civ class I have to keep an eye on a few newspapers from Asian countries (there's a list of newspapers from a lot of countries/regions at RefDesk.com). Very interesting to read not only what is going on in other parts of the world (did you know that China is now dealing with major snow related issues?), but also to read what and how people in other countries think - about themselves, about their country and about events in their countries, regions and around the world. Does anybody else read a newspaper from a country other than the one you live in on a regular basis? Which one(s)? Why? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
selbbub78 0 #2 January 30, 2008 I started to GLANCE at a few, but I haven't read on long term occassion. I'm looking at traveling overseas, and i'm trying to decide where... Somewhere so i can practice my french or spanish, but still deciding!!! CReW Skies, bubbles "Women fake orgasms - men fake whole relationships" – Sharon Stone "The world is my dropzone" (wise crewdog quote) "The light dims, until full darkness pierces into the world."-KDM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #3 January 30, 2008 Quote Hopefully this can stay out of SC... For my Modern Asian Civ class I have to keep an eye on a few newspapers from Asian countries (there's a list of newspapers from a lot of countries/regions at RefDesk.com). Very interesting to read not only what is going on in other parts of the world (did you know that China is now dealing with major snow related issues?), but also to read what and how people in other countries think - about themselves, about their country and about events in their countries, regions and around the world. Does anybody else read a newspaper from a country other than the one you live in on a regular basis? Which one(s)? Why? Yes but not on a weekly basis, i travel a bit and always read the local papers of where i am going As to China and Snow, I flew over China on my way home last week, they have BIG SNOW it was very very pretty from 30,000 feetYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nerdgirl 0 #4 January 30, 2008 Quote Does anybody else read a newspaper from a country other than the one you live in on a regular basis? Which one(s)? Why? Yes. I have a print subscription to the Weekend Edition of UK's Financial Times (FT). Why? Because I can't get a subscription to UK's Guardian where I am now in US. Like to check on-line (altho’ I wouldn’t call it regular reading): -- UK's Guardian -- Norway’s Aftenposten, altho’ if I’m feeling linguistically brave, I try to read the Norwegian version & -- Iran’s Tehran Times VR/Marg Act as if everything you do matters, while laughing at yourself for thinking anything you do matters. Tibetan Buddhist saying Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ltdiver 3 #5 January 30, 2008 What's even more fascinating is that if you put the exact same story, written by other countries on the same issue, side-by-side, you'll get just as many different (and often opposing) viewpoints. Even on such agreeable subjects as, say, the Olympics. ltdiver Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
faulknerwn 38 #6 January 30, 2008 I subscribe to the BBC daily news email (like CNN's.) I also subscribe to The Week - a FANTASTIC magazine that pulls in news articles from around the world about current events and its really interesting to read. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Frenchy68 0 #7 January 30, 2008 Quote did you know that China is now dealing with major snow related issues? "For once you have tasted Absinthe you will walk the earth with your eyes turned towards the gutter, for there you have been and there you will long to return." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #9 January 31, 2008 I read the NY Times on occasion, when I lived in Mexico I read the Miami Herald. During the nineties the South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) and the Straits Times (Singapore) were fairly prominent around Vancouver; both were excellent papers at that time. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hausse 0 #10 January 31, 2008 I read daily the NZZ (Switzerland) and Cash (also Switzerland) online. I think the newspaper my host family gets is crap (and most of the other american ones I've read so far) out several reasons: It is very hard to find a neutral unbiased article. Most of the time you can say if a republican, democrat and so on who wrote it. It is very hard to find real international news (and what George W. does in Mexico doesn't qualify as international news). The domestic news are also crap since they usually just talk about things like lead paint or Anna Nicole Smith. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andrewwhyte 1 #11 January 31, 2008 Quote It is very hard to find real international news (and what George W. does in Mexico doesn't qualify as international news). I find international news is much more biased in US papers toward what directly affects US interests than in most countries. Not saying the bias doesn't exist in other countries' media, but it seems much more obvious in US media. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Andy9o8 2 #12 January 31, 2008 Yes, all online: BBC news as a supplement to CNN.com daily; the Guardian and The Australian a couple times a week; the Toronto Star occasionally. Oh, and sometimes the Dallas Morning News. The comparative differences in perspective and emphasis are interesting. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
