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Re:BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror by Lio on Thursday October 24, 2019 @11:15AM (#21345479)
A random selection of headlines shown on the linked page:

  "Undercover at a 'seduction bootcamp’"
  "The peasant whose binge drinking went global"
  "'Why I'm desperate to get rid of my bum implants'"
  "We spent a morning in Rick Astley's home studio"
This isn't even what I'd recognise as a bad day for the Beeb News site. Some days they just report on Twitter spats with headlines

  "Lizzo credits writer of 'DNA test' tweet after row"
reproducing each tweet in turn. ...actually that's from today too.

I well I suppose that makes a change from:

  "'I’m a Muslim artist inspired by the female body'"
  "On stage at a Jewish queer club night"
which I'm sure are great magazine content if that's your sort of thing but I'm not sure are really headline "news" IMHO (both also from today).

To be fair I guess having Tor access to that content is probably needed in some locations. I just wish it was presented separately to genuine news content.

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Re:BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror by apecat on Thursday October 24, 2019 @11:48AM (#21345802)
While it looks frivolous, that's probably some kind of attempt to attract... common people to the news front page. We don't have access to BBC's analytics so it's hard to determine if this technique manages funnel the unwashed masses towards quality content.

If you open up something like the World section (and subsections), you'll get a lot of good reporting.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world

I also find the shows From Our Own Correspondent the Global News Podcast to be world-class news sources.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p002vsng

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02nq0gn

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Re:BBC News launches 'dark web' Tor mirror by Lio on Thursday October 24, 2019 @11:54AM (#21345875)
Yeah I think that's a fair assessment. I also agree that From Our Own Correspondent is first rate.

The main problem I have is not a lack of good content but filtering good from frivolous.

You'll see that in the technology section too.

For every insightful article you'll find 3 discussing "so called "computer mice" are a way to interact with a so called computer"...

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