~ How to fetch decent & recent (& old) news ~
News & Newspapers
    

On this page you'll find some useful engines (and tools) to find those pesky "news", yet, as always with media: caveat emptor!

[ALLTHEWEB NEWS FEEDS]  
[VARIOUS NEWS FEEDS]  
[REUTER FEEDS]  
[ALL PLANET'S NEWSPAPERS]  
[ARCHIVED ARTICLES]  
[CUI BONO?]  

You'll find below a panoplia of tools that will allow you to gather quickly the most (or less) recent NEWS on a given thema, no matter its "kind", sensitivity or geographical location. Yet of course, in a world where almost all information sources are OWNED by the slavemasters, your only hope to gather some real info depends from your ability to "reconstruct" it yourself. Hence the importance of the ARCHIVED information, and of "older" news (historia docet).
To find (some rare snippets of) REAL info, you better check the
[behind the propaganda engines], and especially the [rare snippets of real info] subsections.

"When somebody points at the moon,
only a fool looks at the moon,
reversers look at the pointing finger,
and sometimes bite it off
"
(Ancient reversers' lore)



1st published @ searchlores.org in April 2004   (This version 0.033 was updated in April 2004... in fieri)
"News news": News feeds and newspapers
[ALLTHEWEB NEWS FEEDS]   [VARIOUS NEWS FEEDS]  
[REUTER FEEDS]   [ALL PLANET'S NEWSPAPERS]  

"Old news": [ARCHIVED ARTICLES]
Guardian & Observer (ENG - complete - 1998)
The Economist (ENG - crippled - 1997)
Japan Times (ENG - complete - 1999)
BBC (ENG - complete - 1997)
Le monde diplomatique (FRA - complete - Last 2 y.)
El pais (ESP - crippled - 1976)
Die Zeit (GER - complete - 1996)
La Repubblica (ITA - complete - 1998)
Al Jaazera (ENG - complete - 2000)

Related sections
[SLS: Seekers' Linguistic Station]     [Searching Scrolls]     [The searchers' library]

Also, of course, you can always reverse on your own some information out of the very disinformation that all newspapers and news services present you.


ALLTHEWEB NEWS FEEDS
(The best of the lot as per march 2004)
Alltheweb Advanced NEWS Search - Use the following filters to execute a more accurate search

Search for -
Language -
Find results written in   
 
News Sources -
 All
 International  US News
 Various Local News  Business
 Finance  Technology
 Sports  Traffic
 Weather  Entertainment
 
Domain Filters -
Filter results from specific domains (com, gov, dell.com, etc.)
Include results from
Exclude results from
 
Location -
Filter results by newpapers from a specific region (France, Colorado, San Diego)
Search articles from newspapers in
 
Source -
Filter results by news sources (News York Times, CNN, etc.)
Search articles from
 
Found -
Within
Presentation -
Display   results per page
Sort results -
 Relevance  Date
 
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VARIOUS NEWS FEEDS
Note that not all news services where created equal...

See the above comments in order to recognize the few [valuable sources of information]. The following links will dig out mostly abominable crap, but with some (rare) snippets of truth inside huge and quite frankly disgusting propaganda mountains.


red [FAST (Alltheweb) news] (The BEST: updates news every hour & refresh its whole database every week, use the above form, which has been 'cleaned' from all the webbugs that Yahoo¡, the new masters of Alltheweb, have imposed.)
Use the form above!

red  [Google news (list)] [Google news (feed)] (Both good and useful)
 ? 

Note that not all news services where created equal... here is vvf's clever comment, a day after the introduction of google's "new" beta news service: "Sure thing. FAST gives 28 returns on Gadamer (he recently died at age 102), albeit most in German, while goggle gives just 1 (in English). So much for comparison and interpretation of sources :)"

REUTER feeds
(only the last 14 days)

Search the last two weeks' news, from Reuters
Reuters frequently sends out multiple versions, and most of these articles were not published in the newspapers. To browse the complete wire, just hit "go." Articles appear in chronological order.

To find words used together in an article, put "quote marks" around the entire phrase.




NEWSPAPERS SEARCH ENGINE
Do not, I repeat, do not underestimate the power of subsidiarity searching

(http://www.thepaperboy.com/ ~ "5013 Newspapers From 175 Countries")
Newspaper Search
Paper:
City:
Country:



Of course being able to read any newspapers of the world does not mean much if you don't know how to filter out the very rare snippets of information and and to recognize the few [valuable sources of information] that are not simple progandistic megaphones of their owners' interests. This said it is for sure quite instructive to learn that slightly different soups of commercial advertisement, hysterical nationalism & ridicolous propaganda are served - under all latitudes - to the zombies...

Something more... how do you check WHICH are the most important newspapers for a given country? (Not that "the most important newspapers of a given country" were the most informative, duh, nevertheless...) Do a search with the engine above for --say-- Australia, and you get PAGES of newspapers.
You may use a searchstring like the following (for --say-- Australia): "national australian newspaper", of course you may refine ad hoc with linguistic variations: "il più importante quotidiano italiano".


ARCHIVED ARTICLES
Goldmines of references...

A simple question: do we have --on the web-- newspapers that offer all their archived articles for free? Alas! Most newspapers now offer only a chronological selection (a couple of weeks) or a short summary, and mostly demand money in order to access their archives.    This is indeed a very stupid business model, since readers will at once find OTHER newspapers (with a better business model), or may even (and pretty easily) hack, pull from the hat or guess their password schemes ;-)
There are some exceptions, listed below. Come to think of it, I reckon there will be many more archives accessible in toto as soon as those "managers" that do not understand a zilch (you know, those "Core Business" & "Free Content Becoming Thing of the Past" zombies) will be overruled or -better- hanged.

The answer to the "simple question" above is YES! ...enjoy the following list of complete, (or crippled but still useful), archives.

Guardian & Observer (ENG - complete - 1998)
The Economist (ENG - crippled - 1997)
Japan Times (ENG - complete - 1999)
BBC (ENG - complete - 1997)
Le monde diplomatique (FRA - complete - Last 2 y.)
El pais (ESP - crippled - 1976)
Die Zeit (GER - complete - 1996)
La Repubblica (ITA - complete - 1998)
Al Jaazera (ENG - complete - 2000)


Guardian and Observer (> 1998 - complete)

"Guardian and Observer articles since September 1, 1998. "Verity" -type search engine" - "We have no plans to introduce a charge to read Guardian articles online" (April 2004)

DAILY: very UK-centric, but quite good foreign politic analysis. Has the advantage to be in english and to have one of the best cartoonists of the world (Steve Bell). If you just manage to avoid all the useless crap about england, this is a good font of all-around information.


http://www.guardianunlimited.co.uk/Archive/

This is the structure of a querystring @ the Guardian's archive:
http://www.searchunlimited.co.uk/search97cgi/s97networkr_cgi?
QueryText=%28%22How+to+search%22%29AND+%28VdkPublicationDate+%3E%3D+01%2DSep%2D1998%29
&ResultColSize=2000&ResultTemplate=ArchiveFull%2Ehts
&Collection=archive&SortSpec=score+Desc&ResultStart=1&ResultCount=10&ResultMaxDocs=1000&Dtv=0

Which seems a pretty straightforward string, duh.

  Keyword(s)
    day month year
  Date
  Sort by
  Show
   
     

"Uncluttered" PDA Guardian page: http://www.guardian.co.uk/pda.



The Economist (> 1997 - very short excerpts: "premium" articles crap)

The Economist's search modules have a NorthernLight type engine that can be quite useful for quick references and 'angles' fishing purposes... Unfortunately their crap "premium articles" business model renders the good search function useless unless you enter -somehow- their database ;-)

Do not lose time "loggin in for free" (with a bogus or real identity): you still wont be allowed to see those articles.


WEEKLY: there is of course MORE disinformation than information, but the former is -at least- VERY cleverly presented. These people are in touch with the real slavemasters: must read (and reverse) for all those interested in "high level" propaganda (where some snippets of true information are continuously presented below the dull iceberg of skilled Guinea-Pig conditioning). Besides Karl Marx himself was an avid reader of the Economist :-)

Find:
within
from
to
sort by

Querystring example: &qr=%22search+engine%22&keywords=1&frommonth=01&fromyear=1997&tomonth=12&toyear=2004&rv=2

Le Monde diplomatique ("deux années d’archives" - complete)

MONTHLY: *very* good, one of the best sources of information of this planet, a little 'pauperistic' and 'whiny', but they see through reality better than many others. This is one of the BEST KNOWLEDGE SITES of the whole web, without any doubt... hope you can read some french... anyway there is also a on-line version [in english].
Best unbiased professional information on the web.

recherche en texte intégral

par date  ~ sujet  ~ pays

Querystring example: http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/index/pays/angola



El pais (> 1976! - excerpts)

DAILY good to average "european style" information, especially valuable for people interested in south American affairs (seen from an european perspective :-)
The archive is searchable from 1976! (Unfortunately dishes out only short excerpts... unless you enter -somehow- their database ;-)



¿Qué?
Buscar
en ELPAIS.es
¿Dónde? sólo en la edición impresa
en los medios de PRISACOM
Buscar
¿Cuándo?
Entre el
y el
Buscar




Japan Times (> 1999, complete)

"With The Japan Times search engine, you can search our archives for articles dating back to 1999, free of charge"

DO NOT use quotes & DO NOT use more than one term on the first field, duh

Enter search term:
Optional -- enter second search term:
And Or And not 
    


Querystring example: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/JTsearch3.pl5?ariane&&and&


BBC (> 1997, complete)

Archives all the news published since November 1997.
There are two ways of accessing the archive:
Fast search: use the SEARCH box below; Advanced search (or click on the link in the search results page).
Since thousands of stories are being added every week, you will probably need to use more than one search word: The more words you enter, the better your results.
You can enter keywords, but you will get better results by entering longer free text - eg The night of the first Nato bombings of Serbia.
Default is the most relevant results first, but you can chose search by date on the results page.

You can use double quotes and the Boolean search terms AND, OR, NEAR and NOT, which must be in uppercase. For example search AND web NEAR engine
Use * as a wildcard. Alger* will find stories about Algeria, Algerians etc.

Querystring example: http://newssearch.bbc.co.uk/cgi-bin/search/results.pl?scope=newsukfs&tab=news&q=angola Note that if you add, for instance, ?start=20 to the query string, you go back in time accordingly (to page 20 of the results).

BBC Advanced Archive Search
SEARCH FOR:  
SEARCH IN:      
All articles   Last week only   Stories from:
To:      
SORT BY:  
   





Die Zeit (> 1996, complete)

WEEKLY: Average/good snippets of information (in German): "Hier finden Sie alle Beiträge, die von 1996 bis heute über das Internet veröffentlicht wurden. Es handelt sich nicht um ein vollständiges Verzeichnis aller gedruckten Artikel unseres Blattes."

ONLY those articles that have been published on the web. Yet those are complete. 52 numbers for every year. Search function often broken.
Archive Index




La Repubblica (> 1998, complete)

DAILY: Poor, provincial, boring, just vaguely liberal italian newspaper. Almost useless for "real world" information purposes, still relatively useful for italian matters. "Inserire le parole separate da spazi. Verranno trovati i documenti che contengono tutte le parole." Seems to search only a small set of 70000 documents, though.

La Repubblica: Ricerca complessa
 
  ordina i risultati
per importanza
per data
per data inversa (prima i più vecchi)
  mostra al più risultati per pagina
La Repubblica: ricerca complessa



You may alternatively search the "Corriere della sera" (most important italian daily), its archives go back to 1992(!) but will allow you to read for free only all articles of the last two weeks or only those articles that are SHORTER THAN 1000 characters for the whole 1992-today period.
http://archivio.corriere.it/archivio/form.jsp



Al Jazeera (> 2000, complete)

WEBBASED DAILY: Best arab coverage of world affairs in english "The alternative to CNN for Iraqi and Middle eastern affairs"

Cookies' infested. Go here and choose advanced search, then fill in the various fields before launching the archive search: http://english.aljazeera.net/HomePage



Cui bono?

Apart from the obvious use for everyday's news checking purposes & in order to delve into the pseudo-information we receieve (in order to evaluate thoroughly what's going on), the various forms above can come quite handy for many RESEARCH purposes.
Note that there are, of course, MANY MORE historical "news" archives all around the web.
To underline but one specific example: A young (german speaking) student could, using the following site: http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno, immediately begin to prepare an in depth research on the austrian (and middle european) history between 1800 and 1938. And this is just ONE example of the incredible richness of the web! Similar archives and uncounted databases exist for all countries, all time frames, all languages for free. And you'll find them every time you need them... provided you know how to search!














Lately, many of our more industrious and investigative readers have taken it upon themselves to supply our searchlores offices with documents which purport to complete and/or further illuminate this section. We send our thanks to the readers who provided hints and material; like-minded souls are encouraged to send further discoveries and suggestions to the addresses of the responsibles of this site, that you'll find listed elsewhere.


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