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Depends on what you mean by "trust". As far as meaning "believe they don't just completely fabricate things from whole cloth, etc." then I guess I trust them a
by mindcrime 3y ago
Depends on what you mean by "trust".
As far as meaning "believe they don't just completely fabricate things from whole cloth, etc." then I guess I trust them all about equally. So CNN, MSNBC, ABC, Fox, whoever. For the most part, if a media outlet reports that "Event X happened" I believe that it really did happen.
Now if you mean "trust them to report events in an unbiased and spin-free manner without slant of any sort" then the answer is "I trust none of them." I assume every media outlet is biased to some degree, and always spin articles to reflect their underlying biases in some way.
So mostly I skip around, if something really catches my interest I'll read articles from multiple sources and try to figure out how to interpret things in light of what's known about the biases of the different outlets. Beyond that, I do slightly favor reading about US events from an international perspective, so I read BBC News, The Guardian, etc. I'm sure they are still biased in some way, but you do get a take that's at least slightly different than the bog standard US media orgs.