One of the best news programs world wide imo. Moderate conservatism/moderate liberalism bias with emphasis on the moderate. You typically have Mark Shields and David Brooks with the occasional David Gergen, Thomas Oliphant, Rich Lowry, Bill Kristol, Ramesh Ponnuru, or Bill Safire making appearances. I find it very difficult to casually dismiss the arguments coming from both sides. I'm surprised you guys get that but be glad because it's quality american programming. Washington Week with Gwen Ifill is also pretty good.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN i was just curious as to what you US people think of the news hour and which particular ideological bent you think it might have. just that its possibly the only current affairs programs we get from overseas that i consider worth watching. id like to know which bias is being beamed into my loungeroom

i enjoyed it at my previous address in Hawaii when i got the chance. i haven't watched it since.

i would listen to the arguments that i liked and read up on them on the web then used them here on occasion.

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Originally posted by occrider One of the best news programs world wide imo.

yeah, thats what i was thinking. it certainly felt better than peoples' descriptions of american mainstream current affairs on TA and elsewhere. it reminds me of some of the national shows we're lucky to get here on the non-commercial channels.

is it on a corporate or government channel? do you americans even have government funded tv?

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Originally posted by Q5echo i would listen to the arguments that i liked

from you i wouldnt expect any less

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Originally posted by Q5echo and read up on them on the web then used them here on occasion.

well yeah, the israel v hezbollah thread got me thinking, coz there was an excellent debate the other day on the goals and capabilities of the two sides.

nothing worse than shitty current affairs, but nothing better than something that really has credibility.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN yeah, thats what i was thinking. it certainly felt better than peoples' descriptions of american mainstream current affairs on TA and elsewhere. it reminds me of some of the national shows we're lucky to get here on the non-commercial channels. is it on a corporate or government channel? do you americans even have government funded tv?

It's on PBS (Public Broadcast System), a publically funded tv station that is 99% random shit programming with 1% quality news programming. Similar to NPR (National Public Radio)which is a lot of news programming but not nearly as quality as PBS news programming imo (but still pretty good).

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Originally posted by occrider One of the best news programs world wide imo. Moderate conservatism/moderate liberalism bias with emphasis on the moderate. You typically have Mark Shields and David Brooks with the occasional David Gergen, Thomas Oliphant, Rich Lowry, Bill Kristol, Ramesh Ponnuru, or Bill Safire making appearances. I find it very difficult to casually dismiss the arguments coming from both sides. I'm surprised you guys get that but be glad because it's quality american programming. Washington Week with Gwen Ifill is also pretty good.

Yeah i watch News Hour when i can, we get it on SBS (a government funded tv channel) along with the Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Indonesian, et al, news. SBS is one of the most unique TV channels in the world imo, and we're very fortunate to get it.