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Does not exist as a single source. Try news sites with diametrically opposed points of view and draw your own conclusions.
by jackfoxy 17y ago
Does not exist as a single source. Try news sites with diametrically opposed points of view and draw your own conclusions.
- lmkg 17y agoI upvoted because at its core, the plurality approach is a fundamentally good idea. However, two caveats. First, beliefs aren't on a spectrum, so get several opinions, not just two. Second, diametrically imposed still shouldn't mean extremist; you'll get higher signal:noise ratio in more moderate sources.
- whatusername 17y agoOf course - trying to line up in the middle of two viewpoints can have issues itself. ( http://xkcd.com/690/ http://xkcd.com/690/ ) Possibly the trick is to discard the outliers first.
- WingForward 17y agoThat doesn't work either. One, there's the assumption that you're two opposed news sites are "really" opposed. Are Fox News and MSNBC diametrically opposed? Amy Goodman would disagree. I could also read the Socialist Worker Magazine and the American Enterprise Institute's newsletter, but I don't know what conclusions I would draw. The issue isn't that all media organizations are biased, it's really that I am biased. I think the world exists in a certain way and the news that doesn't agree with that or fails to convince me to change the way I think, well then that news source is clearly biased.