Anita Kuno <anteaya@anteaya.info> wrote:
One of the things I think we can agree on in an open source community is the importance of making decisions about our own behaviour as individuals, based on facts.
Agreed.
I don't have an answer to the question posed. I do have some suggestions for those interested on how to access facts in this matter.
I find that reading multiple news sources on a given issue to be very helpful as I try to understand the full picture.
This is a great suggestion.
In this matter, I find that reading Canadian news sources, cbc.ca/news, thestar.com (you will be prompted to subscribe, you don't have to subscribe), and globeandmail.com (some articles are for subscribers only) to be very useful. The Canadian news site nationalpost.com used to be a source I read often, but now I believe all articles are for subscribers only.
Internationally I find bbc.co.uk helpful.
Yes, BBC News is probably still fine for most news outside the UK. Although FWIW (and at a risk of going off on a tangent) my personal opinion as a Brit is that whilst BBC has traditionally been a fairly reliable news source with a (global?) reputation for impartiality, sadly it is no longer in general quite what it used to be. In particular I would recommend taking any coverage in which UK politics has a stake with a pinch of salt. Here again Anita's advice to consult multiple sources from different viewpoints is excellent :-)