Received an email from NUS today that all NUS students have complimentary access to the Premium subscription of FT.com. This is a wonderful news, since I'm a prolific reader of news and I now have access to one of the highest-quality news websites in the world. So for the next few months, instead of hunting for high-quality news using Google News, I'm going to try to consume news only through FT.com. I'm sure I'll enjoy it [except, of course, that FT's stance on political issues related to Iran, Libya, North Korea, Russia, Syria, Venezuela, etc., is going to be as corrupt as that of any other Western nation].
For more balanced/diverse/unbiased reporting on international affairs, I'll continue to read a mix of RT, RIA Novosti, Xinhua, etc.
My experience of consuming news has changed quite much since I switched primarily to FT [from Google News and others]. Reading FT is more "peaceful" - I consume news using the same UI every day, I've gotten used to the navigation, the journalism is usually of high quality, the stories aren't too long [or too brief], etc. Overall, I'm liking it.
ReplyDeleteThis combination of FT.com and RT.com has started to feel like an ideal combination. They complement each other quite well. Different perspectives, different stories.
ReplyDeleteSince NUS provides printed copies of FT, International Herald Tribune, and The Epoch Times for free, I sometimes pick these up, and read them while traveling, for example in the NUS Shuttle Bus. However, my primary news sources continue to be FT.com and RT.com.
ReplyDeleteNoticed today that NUS also provides printed copies of China Daily and The Business Times for free. So these two newspapers will also be my news sources, sometimes.
ReplyDeleteNUS also provides printed copies of The Wall Street Journal, and I sometimes pick it up.
ReplyDeleteNUS has just provided us with a complementary subscription to WSJ.com. Instead of getting drowned in news, I'll stick to FT and only occasionally dabble into WSJ :)
ReplyDeleteThe semester is done, and I'm leaving Singapore today. One of the good things about reading FT/FT.com was that I got a better understanding of British issues. Prior to this, I used to read NYT, WSJ, etc., and there's too much of a focus on America and a lack of sufficient focus on Britain in these news publications.
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