I wouldn't trust any news source alone. They all have bias.

An educated person who has the time should sample news across different platforms and make an attempt to distill the truth.

 

and the man WAS IN the newspaper business.

 

I listen to NPR All Things Considered. BBC isn’t bad since they (most of the time) have no dog in the fight.

 

The Economist seems to be the most clear-headed and sane.

 

Yes, at least a little. If nothing else they'll tend to cover some topics a little more and others a little less.

Yup.

 

Both of which are publicly funded.

 

#1 my own natural senses, #2 sources that aren't clearly biased in their stories ( OANN, Huffington, ect) # 3 sources that tend to publish things that **** off everyone from time to time ( NPR, PBS ect)

 

I don’t have any trusted news source. Everywhere has bias but I tend to frequent the blaze, daily caller, and daily wire. But they tend to focus more on politics and they are 100% biased. (But at least they say so) I also like “the new paper” - sends a de sensationalized newspaper via email with about a paragraph per story every weekday. Basically, what the nightly news used to be except shorter. And they provide links for additional context often times the actual data or letter or government report involved in the story.

Ive stopped reading a lot of mainstream because they twist, or downplay facts or just leave them out to shape their narrative. But if I do and am motivated I’ll try to go somewhere with other bias and try to get the facts the mainstream left out of the story.

As an example this year a big story was “record number of cases in FL!” Death destruction etc. Instant spidey tingle and I figured FL probably just did way more tests on that particular day. So I went to covidtracking project and saw that on that particular day FL did a testing blitz to the amount of 2 or three times the number of tests it was doing at the time and the reality was that the rate of infected people actually went down slightly, but it didn’t stop the headline or the story with the narrative that FL was failing miserably because “they have a record number of cases in a single day don’t you know!?”. And I don’t think anyone other than right wing sites like dailywire. Theblaze, or dailycaller even mentioned the fact the number of tests had been increased by such a large extent. There is only the narrative when it comes to mainstream media.

However, it does seem with financial, non politic related things, there is less bias but there is clickbait.

idk, just trying to figure it out like everyone else.

 

I usually look at each side of the same headline and the headline itself to see how each side wants me to see it and then do some digging for myself. It’s sad what the news has become.

Having said that, I do think Reuters is one of the best out there. BBC used to have a rule when publishing something: have two independent sources, or REUTERS.

While you can make an argument that they are left leaning, their journalists have pretty strict guidelines that they must follow. It’s often why their stories seem so boring and pointing out the obvious :-)

It’s worth noting, however, that this stories comes from their breakingVIEWS side, where their journalists are allowed to make predictions, and have more journalistic license, if that’s a thing.

 

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Fascinating.