What News site do you think is the most accurate (unbiased)?
I was following a "story" on the Internet, and was somewhat confused by the very different interpretations that were offered.
What News site do you trust to tell you the truth?
The Onion.
@carl669: I agree, but I think NPR is pretty good as well.
Al-Jazeera English. No, seriously. Best news organization on Earth.
for politics try
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/
The Colbert Report.
Older but pretty much the exact same question. You'll probably find some sources in here too.
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Oh hey, this comes up pretty often, there's a few sources in here as well:
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I try to read all i can find on the topic from all of the above mentioned. The truth is probably the middle ground of all of these.
You will be hard pressed to find unbiased news regardless of where you look. I have found that Bloomberg and WSJ are good sources of news without the clear bias you find elsewhere.
If you are looking for bias on important topics (I know you said you weren't) the WSJ has a great opinion section that pretty high profile and influential people write in to.
I agree with NPR, and for surprisingly unbiased clear & comprehensive reporting - The Christian Science Monitor
www.csmonitor.com/
(and trust me, I am not religious).
@droc112: The Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation. Need I say more?
I try to get my news from a variety of sources to get the full story. Fox, CNN, NBC and its family of stations.
I feel CNN is a little bit left, with occasional dips to far left,
NBC is usually a little bit left, while MSNBC is about as far left as any station can be.
Fox is usually middle-right, with occasional swings to far right, and sometimes even goes left of center when there's some story that everyone's going nuts over. I'm talking the fox NEWS shows here, not the editorial talk shows like Hannity or O'Reilly.
NPR occasionally draws my attention, but then they go so far out into left field I drop them for a month or two.
I also like some local talk radio stations, less systemic bias there.
+1 on christian science monitor, and I also like the BBC (british version, not the shows produced for the American/foreign market)
NPR is pretty good, but for the best news you have to go outside of the US. You will find it's hard to beat Al Jazeera and the BBC. I watch NHK sometimes, but that is just because I enjoy the Japanese culture. There is nothing "middle" about Fox, ever.
I check out the drudge report several times a day http://www.drudgereport.com/.
It's obviously fark.com .
surprised no one has Mentioned the Guardian..
http://www.guardiannews.com/
this whole thread reminds me of this:
a couple years back, I'm in the waiting room @ my local car dealership, waiting on some warranty work to be done. No one else in there, so i start flipping around the channels. nothing really on, I end up on C-span. after a little while another guy comes by leans against the door frame, and tells me I "ought to be watching Fox News to see what they are Really Doing"
- Really? I need to watch congress through a filter, ANY filter, instead of taking it from the "horse's Mouth"?!?!?
@earlyre: If you're watching Congress you're seeing the other end of the horse, but your point is a valid one. The problem is people like bias so long as they agree with the bias. They tend to only dislike bias that they disagree with.
For Politics I like Politifact or factcheck.org
BBC Canada.
Even NPR has gone downhill. They have devoted so much time to stories that are for ratings and not news worthy or at least not worthy of the amount of time they devote to it. They have also started regurgitating unconfirmed stories and facts which I consider to be the worst kind of journalism there is. Hopefully they will get back not sensationalizing stories.
Yahoo is one of the worst. I get links to Yahoo stories sent to me by so many people because they are interesting headlines they happen to see on Yahoo and not a single one has ever been worth the time it took to open the link and are often one sided and not fact checked.
@droc112: The WSJ is VERY right leaning, just look who the owner is. The Financial Times is pretty good, but more focused than the general newspapers.
Wikileaks.
The Beeb
or
The Globe and Mail
BBC World Service is very good. Not a whole lot of US news from them, though.
NPR is good. I think they go out of their way to report both sides of the story.
USA Today, CNN, Fox News, etc are all biased one way or the other.
I listened to a podcast on how biased is the media a few weeks ago. I'd suggest going to this page and reading it.. along with listening to the podcast. To those who think WSJ is "Right" leaning (@mschauber), get ready for a shocker.
http://www.freakonomics.com/2012/02/16/how-biased-is-your-media/
None. I try to read several different sources and pick out the propaganda.
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