What's the most unbiased online news source to get news from?

+1 wrote:

Cpt. Obvious wrote:

letsrun.com

+1

Came here to post this. I get all my news from letsrun. Good balance of all points of views.

This. Since anyone can post anything, you know whatever rises to the top is the best possible content.

NYPost

Wherever you get your news online consult this website first so you know what kind of slant you're dealing with ahead of time

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/

Just so everyone knows, Flagpole is definitely not an unbiased online news source. Therefore, you should ignore his opinion on this particular issue.

Former D2 Guy wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

The Washington Post and the New York Times have excellent reporters. You are correct about them and Trump.

ABC News has some excellent reporters also and is clearly right in the middle on the bias chart. CNN does lean left as demonstrated on the chart, but it is not a left equivalent to Fox or Breitbart as Trumpers like to claim. The fact that Fox News is so far right on the bias chart DESPITE having some reasonable people there (Chris Wallace, Shepard Smith, and occasionally Judge Napolitano) shows how unbelievably biased it is. Biased isn't even appropriate...Fantasy Land is more like it.

Just so everyone knows, Flagpole is definitely not an unbiased online news source. Therefore, you should ignore his opinion on this particular issue.

That is clear.... Hey Flagpole who started the fake news movement in 2016......

Crickets....

Whammin wrote:

I know, I know, every news source has bias.

However, wanting to get an unbiased reporting on events I typically hit up Reuters.

What u think?

Zero Hedge .... aka no BS coverage (apart from those Gold newsletters which i guess pay their bills)

High Times, man.

ask your local astronomer

trollism wrote:

So a leftist puts her personal opinion of news sources on a chart. The "methodology" is to slot based on her own biases. Wow. Impressive non-bias. AP is exactly neutral. Nice to know this.

Guessing you're putting Fox and Breitbart as neutral?[/quote]

Agreed. That chart needs to come with a bias chart about bias charts.

I'm from the UK and a big LOL at The Guardian being just off centre and listed as having a "fair interpretation of the news" It's as left wing as it comes and the "opionion" pieces are some of the daftest dross I've ever read.

I use Google News and log in and use their filter to totally block news articles from certain sites. I have over thirty blocked, and now pretty much only non-sensational, non-scaremongering news gets through.

The Guardian is blocked obviously, but so is the Daily Mail, Fox News etc. along with any clickbait which then shills a paywall.

It's amazing how almost-bland the news looks when you take away the hysterical headlines.

Getting Old wrote:

Sources that are largely factual reporting, with minimal analysis:

- BBC

Not any more.

Nope wrote:

Getting Old wrote:

Sources that are largely factual reporting, with minimal analysis:

- BBC

Not any more.

Yup. Go on their website. The LGBLTWTF vibe is so strong you'd think you had clicked on Pink News.

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CNN, Breitbart, Fox News

lifesitenews.com

I follow news on many sites but it's the only one I check every day. Never any unimportant or FAKE news to weed through!

If you want to be well informed, follow this guys advice. I would add Democracy Now and The Real News for a left perspective and to hear voices that are commonly left out of mainstream media.

Letsrun of course!

I’m in the middle politically, but I primarily read the NYT because of the quality writing. If I need to check the facts, I’ll see what the National Review and WSJ report on the same topic. I don’t think there’s any way to get bias free reporting unless you check a left leaning source against a right leaning one and see what the two had in common on the same story.

purple brain wrote:

I’m in the middle politically, but I primarily read the NYT because of the quality writing. If I need to check the facts, I’ll see what the National Review and WSJ report on the same topic. I don’t think there’s any way to get bias free reporting unless you check a left leaning source against a right leaning one and see what the two had in common on the same story.

Most reporting in things like NYT, WSJ, and the like are pretty biased free. There are exceptions but they are the exceptions. The opinion pages of those papers are a whole other story. The one place where bias tends to show up in the news section is in article selection. Once you get beyond headline news level stories there is a lot of discretion on what to publish. Do you do a story about how the president defrauded tax payers, the drug company raising prices by 10x, or the people doing disability fraud. You can do nonbiased articles on all of them but which ones you read will affect your opinions a bit.

I’ve been reading the NYT and the WSJ for 20 years and I have seen the bias creep in. I’m not talking about the op ed’s which are obviously slanted by definition, but the actual news reporting. Beginning with how the headline is written, its placement within the publication, the choice whether to report it or not in the first place, down to what facts are omitted — the bias is overt. Heck, there’s bias in the NYT crossword puzzles.

Still, I think I’m better off with these sources than my friends (and this is true for both sides of the aisle) whose worldview is informed by their Facebook feed. How educated people can start a conversation based on FB “news” is beyond me.

another perspective wrote:

Keep in mind Flagpole is one of the farthest LEFT people that posts on this site. He thinks Obama was a great President and thinks Hillary Clinton is an ethical person. Just figured I'd put some context towards Flagpole's opinions about what is an "unbiased" news source.

No leftist thinks Obama was a great president as he was a very conservative guy. The true leftists don't get much air time. You get moderate leftist like Bernie Sanders at best. The far left gets basically zero air time. And that is probably right given how few people support their ideas. The balance problem comes because the far right gets a ton of airtime.

It should be noted that a lot of issues really aren't right or left based but far more complicated. Both sides want a nanny state. They just argue about what the nanny should be doing:)