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I agree with coreyp_1; there are no unbiased news sources. Also, people perceive bias based on their world view. For example, a Republican in the US will percei

I agree with coreyp_1; there are no unbiased news sources. Also, people perceive bias based on their world view. For example, a Republican in the US will perceive "liberal bias" in any story that doesn't present Republican politicians in a positive light, regardless of its veracity. Having said all of that, some news sources have less spin. I like Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/ http://www.reuters.com/. I think they are more similar to a wire service than a "we cater to your worldview" brand. As an American, I sadly find that the UK's Guardian have better coverage of what is happening in the US than most US "news" papers and websites. That being said, The Guardian have some of the most maddening identity-politik editorials. One of my "favorite" Guardian editorials was Syreeta McFadden's piece about how film stock is racist because doesn't pick up the details of black faces. (Maybe learn how to use a camera, Syreeta. These are these things called F-stops and shutter speeds). I also "enjoyed" abortion columnist Jessica Valenti's recent piece in which she mentioned that her friends carry tote bags bearing the slogan "Lord, give me confidence of a mediocre white man." ...but I digress... The intercept is an interesting read. While it certainly has a very strong point of view, you can be sure that they're not working for "The Man". BTW, someone where mentioned the Washington Post. Have a look at this before you tout WP as unbiased: https://theintercept.com/2016/07/22/oil-lobby-paid-washington-post-and-atlantic-to-host-climate-change-deniers-at-rnc/ https://theintercept.com/2016/07/22/oil-lobby-paid-washingto...

drdeca 10y ago
> For example, a Republican in the US will perceive "liberal bias" in any story that doesn't present Republican politicians in a positive light, regardless of its veracity. I think this is a bit of an exaggeration. There are some Republicans who continue to criticize trump freely, after he won the nomination, even if some of these might still prefer him to Hillary Clinton. Though some republicans would probably interpret almost any criticism as bias. Did you mean most republicans or just at least some? Maybe you meant things that criticize republican politicians as a group? To me, that seems likely to be more true.
- alansmitheebk 10y ago
  I'm talking about the kind of Republicans that rail against "The Mainstream Media", which basically means anything that isn't Fox News, Brietbart, Rush Limbaugh, etc. These people literally think that all news is "liberal lies" unless it's coming from a rightwing source. Am I talking about most Republicans? That I don't know. I haven't conducted a poll to see how many Republicans have that mentality. Certainly anyone who supports trump or watches Fox News on a regular basis has that mentality --and that's a lot of people!
  - ArkyBeagle 10y ago
    But that's just the galloping narcissism of our times.
    - alansmitheebk 10y ago
      Well, it's quite significant. How can we even talk about which news is objective when their is a large portion of the US population that consider rightwing pundits to be "the real news" and everything else to be lies? This is a major problem. We are living in a reality distortion field where George W. Bush has never been criticized for failing to protect us from 9/11 but people want to "lock her up!" [Hillary Clinton] because an embassy in Benghazi was attacked? I realize I'm going off topic here but sooner or later we have to confront this issue. Reality is not subjective. If our society can't learn how to parse reality we will never be able to unfuck ourselves.
      - ArkyBeagle 10y ago
        https://xkcd.com/258/ https://xkcd.com/258/

drdeca 10y ago

> For example, a Republican in the US will perceive "liberal bias" in any story that doesn't present Republican politicians in a positive light, regardless of its veracity. I think this is a bit of an exaggeration. There are some Republicans who continue to criticize trump freely, after he won the nomination, even if some of these might still prefer him to Hillary Clinton. Though some republicans would probably interpret almost any criticism as bias. Did you mean most republicans or just at least some? Maybe you meant things that criticize republican politicians as a group? To me, that seems likely to be more true.

alansmitheebk 10y ago
I'm talking about the kind of Republicans that rail against "The Mainstream Media", which basically means anything that isn't Fox News, Brietbart, Rush Limbaugh, etc. These people literally think that all news is "liberal lies" unless it's coming from a rightwing source. Am I talking about most Republicans? That I don't know. I haven't conducted a poll to see how many Republicans have that mentality. Certainly anyone who supports trump or watches Fox News on a regular basis has that mentality --and that's a lot of people!
- ArkyBeagle 10y ago
  But that's just the galloping narcissism of our times.
  - alansmitheebk 10y ago
    Well, it's quite significant. How can we even talk about which news is objective when their is a large portion of the US population that consider rightwing pundits to be "the real news" and everything else to be lies? This is a major problem. We are living in a reality distortion field where George W. Bush has never been criticized for failing to protect us from 9/11 but people want to "lock her up!" [Hillary Clinton] because an embassy in Benghazi was attacked? I realize I'm going off topic here but sooner or later we have to confront this issue. Reality is not subjective. If our society can't learn how to parse reality we will never be able to unfuck ourselves.
    - ArkyBeagle 10y ago
      https://xkcd.com/258/ https://xkcd.com/258/