31-07-2003 19:15									#1
	Forum as a News Source? Lose 30 kilos (of popups)

While it's fairly useless for local matters, I find this forum superior to any other source I know of for national (US) and even more so international news. It's more entertaining and every issue is presented in numerous points of view. How do you think it compares?

	31-07-2003 19:22									#2
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It compares well. But, before I started reading/posting here, people often asked I I'd been living in a cave for several months.

	31-07-2003 19:24									#3
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It's certainly better in that regard than some other forums I could mention that are exclusively either liberal or conservative, or exclusively pro-war or anti-war.

At least we have a good mixture here, although the number of people who can express their opinion in an intelligent and coherent way isn't all that high.

	31-07-2003 19:25									#4
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I agree, the main reason I visit the OT forum is for current news...So the OT forum does serve a purpose.

	31-07-2003 19:26									#5
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	31-07-2003 19:32									#6
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STFU n00b!!!11

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	31-07-2003 19:44									#8
	Re: Forum as a News Source? Support Apolyton or Terrorists Win

quote: Originally posted by Smiley While it's fairly useless for local matters, I find this forum superior to any other source I know of for national (US) and even more so international news. It's more entertaining and every issue is presented in numerous points of view. How do you think it compares?

yes, there isnīt any more unbiased news source I know about in www (even though every single post in itself is a biased one ). all opinions about a certain issue at one look.

	31-07-2003 20:35									#9
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actually, this forum, rather than being a good place for me to get real news, i find often has a lot of good, quirky stories.

almost as good as metafilter.

	31-07-2003 21:24									#10
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The best thing is that late afternoon my time, I'm reading about events here, that will be in the next morning's paper. And the funny thing is that the newpaper article doesn't provide much new information.

	31-07-2003 21:26									#11
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quote: Originally posted by rah The best thing is that late afternoon my time, I'm reading about events here, that will be in the next morning's paper. And the funny thing is that the newpaper article doesn't provide much new information.

Well, we can always change the name of the Off-Topic Forum to The Aployton Times Forum.

	31-07-2003 21:33									#12
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This is a great place for late breaking news during the day. Somebody will post it within minutes of it happening, and then I can go to other news sources for more details if needed... but sometimes, there is no need for more details.