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News, news and more news

Just wanted to write a blog post about watching the news 2022 style. There are so many news gathering organisations around the world. Quite a lot appears on YouTube. Sky, Euronews, France24 (from Paris), DW (from Berlin), Ariang (South Korea), CGTN (China), ABC (Australia), NBC (USA) and lots lots more.  There are also journalistic articles written on newspaper sites around the world. Often requiring payment if you wish to access written articles by journalists.  In Britain we also have the terrestrial channel the BBC which was one of the first to launch a 24 hour news channel in Britain, or the Island of Albion as it was first named by the Greek explorers.  This was in the days before YouTube. The streaming news channels all use the same method for disseminating the news. A number of rolling video reports, together with trailers for the channel. A few like France24 and India today, nicely allows chat. Which I think is a good thing. Allowing the audience to interact with ...