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I mostly get my news from paywalled sites, which I find less pushy on their own biases than Vox and Fox and other free sites. The bias is never completely gone,
by paulgb 7y ago
I mostly get my news from paywalled sites, which I find less pushy on their own biases than Vox and Fox and other free sites. The bias is never completely gone, but it seems that sites that don't have to compete for social media shares are better incentivized to find the truth instead of creating it.
- keiferski 7y agoThat is probably true. WSJ does have its biases of course, but I have also found them to be reasonably fair with most things, probably because there are legitimate business interests and real money relying on their information, rather than just clicks and “influence.”
- paulgb 7y agoI think what's most telling is the twin study of WSJ and Fox. They both feed up into News Corp, so the top-down institutional biases are the same, and yet one is respected and the other is not.
- big_chungus 7y agoWSJ isn't biased overall: https://www.allsides.com/news-source/wall-street-journal-media-bias https://www.allsides.com/news-source/wall-street-journal-med... The editorials are sometimes right-leaning, but mostly fiscally so.