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Unbiased media sources?

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  1. Falcons Talon

    Falcons Talon Contributing Member

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    Any recommendations on a good unbiased online media sources?
     
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    pirc1 Contributing Member

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    What are you looking for? I have found NPR for the most part to be fairly unbiased.
     
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    Falcons Talon Contributing Member

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    Just looking for sources that don't lean left or right. Thanks for NPR.
     
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    Al Jazeera
     
  5. pirc1

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    You are welcome.
     
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    almost impossible to find any..

    if you look at BBC for example , their local English,International, Arabic,Urdu,Persian,French broadcasts comes with different flavour of bias depends on what segments of audience/viewers are targeted
     
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    Democracy Now is by far the #1 source.

    But if you want to be real real, you have to read all the biases. You have to watch Fox, MSNBC, TYT, CNN, RT, BBC, Der Spiegel and Al Jazeera and you will automatically understand the truth. Nothing else will be as accurate.

    Unfortunately that's not practical for most people, so just use reddit and subscribe to World News - it will have many of the sides automatically listed for you. Stay away from the comments section though IMO.
     
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    BBC is a terrible example of an unbiased source.
     
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    I think what you want is an impartial source. I use Reuters.
     
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    NPR is rated as the most unbiased news source
     
  11. Mathloom

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    I find NPR is unbiased between the republican and democratic party. It's not an unbiased source if you're not drowned in the 2-party politics IMO.

    Where can I find this rating?
     
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    Democracy Now is pretty biased but they admit their bias.

    Bias is almost impossible to avoid as by nature we are products of our own backgrounds and see everything through our POV's. Best thing to do is look at multiplicity of news sources and compare them. Understandably that's tough with limited time.
     
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    Nothing is perfect, at least NPR is the most unbiased source I have heard. Reuters is unbiased, but they pretty much just present the facts, which is way too boring. Then you have Fox which intentionally tries to be biased.
     
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    There's really no such thing, the best you can do is read several different sources with diverse biases and try to figure out what is real and what is BS. Some here might point to left leaning news sources as "unbiased" and really what they mean is that they agree with the bias of that source. You really can't stick to one.
     
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    There is a difference between personal bias formed from personal experience, you can minimize those but never eliminate them, it is a completely different story when you have a source like Fox news that actively tries to promote one point of view.
     
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    Try BBC they have no dog in the fight .
     
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    Mainstream corporate journalism of course. ;)

    Main stream corporate media report: "some scientists say that a huge hoax" is global warming/climate change/man-made climate change (it has changed every year or so).
    Some scientists say: "it is man-made and totally certain."

    The mainstream media say THEY REPORTED BOTH SIDES THEREFORE NOT BIASED. lol

    Left out is 97% peer reviewed scientists say it is certain and not a hoax. The 3% who say it is a hoax are paid for by the Koch Bros, Exxon or maybe even GE which owns the network the journalists are paid by. No need to mention these types of facts.
     
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    closest would be CSPAN
     
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    appeal to authority fallacy
     
  20. Bobbythegreat

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    MSNBC and CNN are no different. Certainly "Democracy Now" is no better and arguably worse.

    I'm no fan of "Trump News", but it's not like they are doing something others are not, they are just leaning the other direction.
     

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