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When reading News biscuit ,do you ever, for one small moment

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Started 2 years ago by arrghgarry
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arrghgarry

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forget it is a satire , and feel as though it is the real news you are reading

Posted 2 years ago #
riesler

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is it?????

Posted 2 years ago #
IABP

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Is real news the real news?!?
You should read the same story around the world. The bias from various continents is quite breathtaking. Our news reporting is a bit of a disgrace to be honest.

Posted 2 years ago #
MC One R

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Sounds like a late night drinking conversation. How can you be sure that the story you are reading is the biased one? Can you believe anything written on this website?

Posted 2 years ago #
IABP

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You can't on some things but you get a lot of unedited footage elsewhere. It's amazing how much is cut out in the UK and what they don't show and therefore it gives them license to not even report it, which they frequently decide not to.

It's fascinating how the same incident is reported with different slants around the globe. Bias can be either way so neither have to show a totally accurate picture and I don't think any of them try to be impartial anyway. Trying to find what is accurate is not easy and not worth the hassle to find out on most things.

You also get a lot of public videos now due to modern technology, which news agencies and the string-pullers can't control as of yet but I'm certain the net will eventually be controlled but maybe not in our lifetime.

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I've had the opposite thing, arrghgarry. I've started looking at 'straight' news sites and forget it's NOT satire...just started laughing, or thinking 'well that's not very funny' depending on the story.
Because I don't check in on The Onion nearly as often as I do here, I tend to have long catch-up sessions there. After 20 minutes or so, I then flip over to BBC or Guardian and just sit there with a grin on my face waiting for the punchline...

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The All New Jeni B

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Golgo, I'm the same. I have to remind myself that I am about to read/watch 'real' news otherwise I can end up snorting with inappropriate laughter, sure I'm about to here a killer punchline only to remember I'm watching the 6 o'clock news.

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arrghgarry

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Well at least the weapons of mass destruction story was true.

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There was that supermarket on jersey in the news yesterday yesterday that over-charged someone a fiver on their fruit n veg because the checkout assistants waps were resting on the scales. I had to check to make sure I was on the beeb and not NewsBiscuit. And that it wasn't April 1st.

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arrghgarry

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She has a pet wasp ,and takes it to work

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A Crooked MP

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And the article on the BBC last week about "Quantas finding engine problem on A380". Well fuck me they're bloody great things hanging off the wing, it should be easy to spot I thought. really had to stop and check which site I was on.

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arrghgarry

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I used to work with a Belgian and he told me of a story where a group of people went into asupermarket and shit a load of customers .turns out it was the local police trying to get more money for their "members"

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arrghgarry

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That should be shot,I am changing into the policeman from ,allo allo

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