Unbiased news sources

[DavidS]

Which news sources do you use for unbiased news?

 

[DiveCon]

there isnt one

 

[paperview]

Which news sources do you use for unbiased news?

I am an avid CSPAN watcher, for starts.

a great place to watch the sausage being made, and hear the debates directly from the critters mouths.

Washington Journal every morning has been a standard in my house for over 17 years now.

 

[blu]

they don't exist.

 

[mightypeon]

Concerning international things: The news of someone who does not have a dog in the fight.

Concerning national things: Well, I lived in the East German Republic, and beeing able to read between the lines did not become any less important.

 

[Modbert]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to DiveCon again.

DiveCon got it. There isn't one. The best choice would be to look at a variety of news sources and make a judgment based off that with your own common sense and thinking.

 

[DiveCon]

Concerning international things: The news of someone who does not have a dog in the fight.

Concerning national things: Well, I lived in the East German Republic, and beeing able to read between the lines did not become any less important.

thats it exactly
gotta read between the lines on reports
and check for a bias or motive for the report
the days of an honest journalist are over

 

[Polk]

The disinformation campaign by the right has been really effectively at lowering the quality of American media.

 

[DiveCon]

The disinformation campaign by the right has been really effectively at lowering the quality of American media.

yeah, cause the left wouldn't have done ANYTHING to contribute to that

 

[Polk]

The disinformation campaign by the right has been really effectively at lowering the quality of American media.

yeah, cause the left wouldn't have done ANYTHING to contribute to that

They haven't. We have a media environment today were you've got sources like Fox with an extreme bias toward the right and sources like the networks who are called "liberal" even though they're pretty balanced on average, and where balance doesn't exist, it's always in favor of the right.

 

[Si modo]

The disinformation campaign by the right has been really effectively at lowering the quality of American media.

In television, FNC is the result of a bias.

Watch some archive footage of Walter Cronkite - that's what our news once was. Somehow bias infiltrated, and it was left. FNC is relatively new compared to the established networks.

 

[Si modo]

The disinformation campaign by the right has been really effectively at lowering the quality of American media.

yeah, cause the left wouldn't have done ANYTHING to contribute to that

They haven't. We have a media environment today were you've got sources like Fox with an extreme bias toward the right and sources like the networks who are called "liberal" even though they're pretty balanced on average, and where balance doesn't exist, it's always in favor of the right.

Seriously, look at some archive footage of Cronkite, Huntly/Brinkley, etc. It will give you a baseline. You don't know what you're talking about until you do, IMO.

 

[DiveCon]

The disinformation campaign by the right has been really effectively at lowering the quality of American media.

yeah, cause the left wouldn't have done ANYTHING to contribute to that

They haven't. We have a media environment today were you've got sources like Fox with an extreme bias toward the right and sources like the networks who are called "liberal" even though they're pretty balanced on average, and where balance doesn't exist, it's always in favor of the right.

that is just fucking INSANE
FNC is the RESULTS of news bias, that how they came into being was to respond to a KNOWN bias that already existed
had that bias not already existed, FNC would never have made it

 

[Polk]

"Known bias". And yet, the so-called liberal media gives disproportionate voice to conservatives (which can be proven mathematically, since conservatives are far more likely to get appear on the Sunday shows) and is much less critical of claims made by Republicans. Dispute anything a Republican claims, even if it's that the sky is pink, and you're instantly labeled as biased. The result is Republicans get a free pass from the media, because the most critical thing for journalists is access. You'll noticed that a lot of Democrats are willing to go on Fox, but you'll rarely, if ever, see Republicans going on MSNBC.

 

[Si modo]

"Known bias". And yet, the so-called liberal media gives disproportionate voice to conservatives (which can be proven mathematically, since conservatives are far more likely to get appear on the Sunday shows) and is much less critical of claims made by Republicans. Dispute anything a Republican claims, even if it's that the sky is pink, and you're instantly labeled as biased. The result is Republicans get a free pass from the media, because the most critical thing for journalists is access. You'll noticed that a lot of Democrats are willing to go on Fox, but you'll rarely, if ever, see Republicans going on MSNBC.

FNC would not have succeeded if it had not been biased to the right to balance the left.

Yes, numbers indicate that cons get airtime. Numbers can also indicate that libs get airtime on FNC. How FNC depicts those libs is another story. Same with the former.

If you're going to mention some data, you really should present the source of it. I'm assuming you are correct for now.

 

[mdn2000]

Nothing wrong with bias, this is a recent trick, make people think its wrong to be biased.

 

[driveby]

The disinformation campaign by the right has been really effectively at lowering the quality of American media.

yeah, cause the left wouldn't have done ANYTHING to contribute to that

They haven't. We have a media environment today were you've got sources like Fox with an extreme bias toward the right and sources like the networks who are called "liberal" even though they're pretty balanced on average, and where balance doesn't exist, it's always in favor of the right.

puff puff give .......

 

[mdn2000]

The disinformation campaign by the right has been really effectively at lowering the quality of American media.

yeah, cause the left wouldn't have done ANYTHING to contribute to that

They haven't. We have a media environment today were you've got sources like Fox with an extreme bias toward the right and sources like the networks who are called "liberal" even though they're pretty balanced on average, and where balance doesn't exist, it's always in favor of the right.

You should of stated, "extreme bias towards the truth"

 

[DiveCon]

yeah, cause the left wouldn't have done ANYTHING to contribute to that

They haven't. We have a media environment today were you've got sources like Fox with an extreme bias toward the right and sources like the networks who are called "liberal" even though they're pretty balanced on average, and where balance doesn't exist, it's always in favor of the right.

You should of stated, "extreme bias towards the truth"

naw, FNC spins things nearly as much as the rest
just it has a slightly different spin on it

 

[mdn2000]

Divecon, I agree, I dont watch any TV. I tell my friends that Fox is just jumping on the bad wagon because they smell blood.

I just said that to see what people thought.