Good foreign sources of news about the US

In My Humble Opinion
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Do any foreign nations do a better job of giving an objective view of what is happening in the US over our own domestic news agencies which for whatever reason (fear of losing access to politicians, fear of seeming unpatriotic and unamerican, etc) may not give an objective review of domestic events?

I’ve had people recommend Russia today, china daily and al jazeera english. But aren’t russia today and china daily just going to be biased in the opposite direction and give overly hostile news rather than whitewashed news?

I’m reading Al Jazeera english and they have good stories about the militarization of US police forces, or the implications for the Bradley Manning affair for how it affects whistleblowers.

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You might want to try Deutsche Welle - a German news organization that broadcasts world wide. (They have an English version as well on that site.)

I am sure some UK folks can suggest good sites for news organizations over there.
Probably some good stuff in Australia, New Zealand and Canada as well.
One slight problem is that often foreign countries simply repeat what was written in the US in the NY Times or Wall Street Journal or whatever. Still, they will also write their own pieces based upon this info and additional reporting by one of their own reporters.

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Canada has many media outlets, and we watch the USA the way the USA used to watch the Kremlin. A few typical news links:

The CBC. (public broadcaster)
The Globe and Mail. (business conservatives with brains)
CTV News. (news branch of commercial telelvision network. Not bad, but local at times.)
The Toronto Star. (Mildly left of centre.)
The Toronto Sun. (Right-wing populist tabloid.)

This is only a small small sampling.

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Have you picked up The Economist? It’s so visible in the US that people may not realize that it’s British.

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The Guardian (from the UK) has quite recently beefed up its US presence. Their UK home page

www.guardian.co.uk

should redirect to a tailored US version if you live in that neck of the woods.

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Russia Today is broadcast on free TV here (UK), and I certainly wouldn’t call it impartial. There’s lots of anti-western slant, and meanwhile they go very easy on the Russian government. It almost feels like state-sponsored TV at times.

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I tend to get my news from the BBC, as Firefox includes it as its default news feed. The only real bias seems to be an attempt to remain neutral even when one side has more support than the other. Except on SOPA, where it actually seemed to favor the reasonable position–possibly because SOPA is also an EU issue.