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You know, I don’t particularly agree with the leftist bent of the Guardian. However, that being said, the Guardian is, by far, one of the highest quality public
by briandear 8y ago
You know, I don’t particularly agree with the leftist bent of the Guardian. However, that being said, the Guardian is, by far, one of the highest quality publications available today. While the views don’t always align with mine, I can respect quality. Wishing the folks at the Guardian continued success; I appreciate being exposed to alternative views that consistently challenge my own.
- meigwilym 8y agoWhat publication would you recommend for someone on the opposite side of the political spectrum? The Times has a paywall and the Telegraph is only good for rugby.
- malandrew 8y agoDon't know about the UK, but the National Review, The American Conservative and National Affairs are pretty solid conservative journalism.
- gridlockd 8y agoCall me a dreamer, but I believe unbiased reporting should be the goal of journalism and I associate a "political bent" with poor quality. You must be associating (lack of) quality with how sensationalist/tabloid-style a publication is, which is more superficial. > I appreciate being exposed to alternative views that consistently challenge my own Which is why a publication should aim to challenge its readers with opposing opinion pieces, instead of constantly reinforcing their beliefs (aka "the easy way out").
- sgift 8y ago> Call me a dreamer, but I believe unbiased reporting should be the goal of journalism and I associate a "political bent" with poor quality. If you want "unbiased reporting" you get articles like: Angela Merkel ate Aspargus yesterday. That's unbiased. It's also irrelevant. Anything more interesting will always have a bias as long as it is written by humans.
- ljf 8y agoFor (largely) unbiased reporting read the Financial Times - https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/financial-times/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/financial-times/ The Guardian do pretty well: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/ https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-guardian/ - but are well known to be left leaning
- MrsPeaches 8y agoFinancial Times have a very strong bias towards liberal economic policy. They support de-regulation and reduced state involvement in markets. Similar to the econmist.
- gridlockd 8y ago> Financial Times have a very strong bias towards liberal economic policy Economics itself has a strong bias towards liberal economic policy. Would you call "Nature" biased for not giving creationism a platform?
- omnimus 8y agoLeft is wrong just like creationism and liberal economic policy is right just like nature. Now i get it.
- gridlockd 8y ago"Left" doesn't imply illiberal economic policy at all, though one might get that impression when dealing with all these vocal armchair marxists that haven't actually read any economics.
- hellllllllooo 8y agoIf you're equating modern economic policy with hard science you're making a pretty big stretch.
- hellllllllooo 8y agoShow me a news paper without a political bent? Centerism or balance for the sake of balance is also a political bent. The Guardian does a better job than most in reporting hard facts and news about the world. I wonder if you apply your standard for quality to everything you read in an unbiased way?
- gridlockd 8y agoCentrism isn't the same as "unbiased". That would be the "truth lies in the middle" fallacy. Let's take global warming. Some people on the right may say it doesn't exist. Some people on the left may say it exists and it is a great danger. The "middle ground" would probably be something like "It exists, but it is not such a great danger". The "unbiased" view would be whatever the science says. > I wonder if you apply your standard for quality to everything you read in an unbiased way? No. I don't apply it to HN comments, for instance.
- hellllllllooo 8y agoYou're agreeing with my point.