Current affairs

To be honest, you don't have to agree or comment with what has been posted - Its there to be discussed?

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Originally Posted by Hazza

To be honest, you don't have to agree or comment with what has been posted - Its there to be discussed?

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Wasting bandwidth :eusa_naug

I agree, I tend to see a trend in the feedback with you Jewish Bear and, not that its a bad thing, but these suggestions seem very geared in benefitting you and you only rather than wanted it to benefit Habbox as a whole. You have to remember there are other users who do have opposing likes and dislikes.

I think by having newspapers such as The Sun to discuss their stories is interesting because you see peoples views on what they think about this 'rubbish' and whether or not they actually believe it. Whether its a reliable or unreliable source, I think its good for discussion.

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Originally Posted by adammm

But why would they be reading current affairs in the first place? Kids aren't interested in the news.

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Bit of a generalisation. You're still a child at heart, Adam :D

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Originally Posted by Sammeth.

I agree, I tend to see a trend in the feedback with you Jewish Bear and, not that its a bad thing, but these suggestions seem very geared in benefitting you and you only rather than wanted it to benefit Habbox as a whole. You have to remember there are other users who do have opposing likes and dislikes.

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moaner :eusa_whis

Reuters is a great source, if bots are posting news to the forum, Reuters is the source i'd suggest. There is a lot more in place to prevent bias than with any other news organization out there, even with the Thomson merger.

I think this is rather snobby actually. Not being provocative but I do think it's snobbery.

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Originally Posted by Mrs.McCall

I think this is rather snobby actually. Not being provocative but I do think it's snobbery.

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I think you've made the common mistake that the working-class reads The Sun, Daily Mirror, Daily Sport (And other typical tabloids), the Middle Class reads the Daily Mail and the 'Upper' class reads the Daily Telegraph?

Dude you're the only one stereotyping by thinking it's snobby. The Sun aims it's self at people who don't wish to read into much depth and enjoy a big range of rumours and entertainment news, if you want to associate that with the working class then go ahead but it seems like you're the only person stereotyping in this thread (Unless I've got the complete wrong end of the stick :P).

A lot of The Sun's news is tabloid / entertainment sort of news anyway, and therefore goes into the relevant sub forum. If they provide a decent bit of news, although it may well be written in an extremely simple way, it's still news and I see no reason why it should be excluded from the forum.

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Originally Posted by Sammeth.

The issue isn't with anyhting to do with bias slants in articles from various outlets, he is simply saying that the quality of articles from certain papers like The Sun, are utter garbage. I knew as soon as he mentioned the Guardian you would all of a sudden change the whole subject to how they're bias.

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That must of been one mighty fine prediction considering I hardly ever post in Feedback?. The opinion regarding these newspapers is whether or not someone likes that newspaper, my opinion on the Guardian for example is that it is just full of politically correct jobs in government being advertised in that newspaper, and my opinion on the Sun is that it shows far too much skin on page three. We all have our different tastes and they should all be accomedated for, afterall it doesn't cost anything. You think the Sun is rubbish as do I in most cases, some will like it and its the same with every news source.

As for the issue I get it now, I was confused to whether he was implying a ban on users using certain news sources was being proposed, something which i'm totally against. As for the Guardian being mentioned over the Sun newspaper by the thread poster, my point still directs to that, that the Guardian is biased just as the Sun newspaper is and neither should have priority over eachother.

As I see what he means now, then i'm against as I think all of these newspapers all aim at a different group as Jordy said, the Sun aims for entertainment and a less political slant while papers such as the Daily Mail and Telegraph aim for a political slant.