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posted by Fnord666 on Friday December 28 2018, @05:19PM   Printer-friendly
from the who-do-you-trust? dept.

For on-line news, what sites do you avoid and which ones do you seek out as being trustworthy?

Thanks to my position as an editor on SoylentNews, I've had the privilege of viewing story submissions which have referenced a veritable plethora of different sources. It has been a privilege to serve you these past few years. My goal has been to provide stories that cover a diversity of areas but always with an attempt to provide level-headed background. I strive to avoid shrill in-your-face!!!!elevnty! diatribes. To invoke a common mis-quotation "Just the facts, ma'am." Full confession: I'm not above posting an occasional funny or feel-good story, either.

Over time, I've come to learn that some sources are more reputable than others. News outlets are comprised of people who have their own biases; some try to remain objective whereas others use their position to push an agenda.

For example, I've learned here that RT is a mouthpiece for the Russian government (A modern-day Pravda, if you will).

The BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation), on the other hand, is funded primarily through a television license costing £147 per year per household. But, it has received a funding boost from government to expand its global reach.

Fox News has had complaints about its content and has had its share of controversies. But even some commonly-held beliefs about Fox News have proved exaggerated and not fully supported by the facts.

ScienceDaily, phys.org, CNET, Quora, NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration), ESA (European Space Agency), Spaceflight Now, weather.gov, and Hurricane Prediction Center are just some of the sites that I have found especially helpful.

So, I turn to the SoylentNews community:

  • What biases have you found with MSM (main-stream media)?
  • what 'news' sites do YOU avoid? Why?
  • where do YOU find trustworthy, unbiased, fact-supported news?

Bonus question: What would you think of a news story on SoylentNews whose only supporting link is CNN? Fox News? Breitbart?


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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Friday December 28 2018, @06:31PM (4 children)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Friday December 28 2018, @06:31PM (#779412) Journal

    Oh, wow, you found one opinionated news source's opinion on another opinionated news source.

    I can easily argue that CNN is the worst of the lot, but what's the point of arguing? As a group, American MSM news sources suck ass. You have to get out of the mainstream to find newsworthy news.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @08:21AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @08:21AM (#779623)

    Found an opinionated and backwards Arcansaws hillbilly, you mean.

  • (Score: 1) by D2 on Saturday December 29 2018, @04:04PM (2 children)

    by D2 (5107) on Saturday December 29 2018, @04:04PM (#779711)

    Irony: short-circuiting to 'can't trust the source' when Forbes (NYC, wealthy establishment conservative) calls Fox (right-wing & outright muckracking propaganda) a biased hot mess. Frankly, unlike Thesawozname (uid 636), your lengthy diatribe reveals you're a deeply biased consumer of news, and lacks their nuance.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 29 2018, @04:44PM (1 child)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday December 29 2018, @04:44PM (#779728) Journal

      Didn't my original post tell you that all news sources are biased? By extension, I'm biased. And, by extension, you're biased. All that you have stated here is, you don't like my bias.

      Regarding Forbes - why, exactly, should I wish to fall in with New York's wealthy establishment conservative crowd? I've met them, rubbed shoulders with them, worked with them, worked for them. Their views are not my views. When we speak of people with entitlements, Forbes readers are the embodiment of entitlement. Where half or more the population avoids the police as much as possible, the people you have described are the people who call the police to keep the rest of us in line.

      See if you can point out the Forbes readers in this story - https://www.wired.com/story/joi-ito-ai-and-bus-routes/ [wired.com]

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @12:03AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 30 2018, @12:03AM (#779854)

        Take away: Runaway is biased so clearly we can't take his word that all news sources are biased as the unbiased truth. There's an obvious rebuttal in here somewhere, but the point is that Runaway has no clue of what he is opining upon, as usual. I trust his evaluations of news sources as much as I would trust his taste in barnyard anmals.