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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?
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 28 2018, @07:40PM (3 children)
>Here in the USA, most of the media has a hard left bias. ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, Turner, Hearst - almost everything.
No, mainstream news is by-definition the center, and is right-wing compared to Western nations. It only looks hard-left if you're so far to the right that you've rejected Western civilization.
> Or, if not hard left, then pro-Democrat and/or "progressive".
Mainstream. The far-right has embraced propaganda from trash like Fox, so real news was left to the rest of us.
>Then, there is Fox - just about as bad, but far right instead of left.
Much worse. People who watch Fox know nothing, but do have their racism reinforced by scumbags like Tucker Carlson and Shawn Hannity.
>One America News Network is some different than the rest. They seem to be right, but less goofy-right than Fox - https://www.oann.com/ [oann.com] [oann.com]
OANN is for people who are so hopelessly lost that they call Fox Liberal because Shep Smith made them mad with a dose of reality. They're full-on goofy-right.
You seem like a right-winger trying to both-sides our Republican disinformation problem.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Friday December 28 2018, @08:59PM (1 child)
So - by your own definition - Nazi propaganda during the decade of 1935 to 1945 was center? You are at least partly correct though. Our left isn't really left, it's alternative right. Oh yeah - ALT-RIGHT!! That's what the term has been hiding all along! Alt-Right is a progressive movement!
(Score: 5, Informative) by edIII on Friday December 28 2018, @09:21PM
Actually, I think the alt-right is so fucking intellectually offensive, xenophobic, homophobic, racist, and genuinely scared of a war against white men that doesn't really exist. Simultaneously, the far left is just as intellectually offensive, authoritarian snowflakes with their free-speech-good-unless-it-hurts-my-feelings, infinite gender spectrum idiots with required criminalization of perceived pronoun assaults.
It's not a flat line with a consistent center anymore, but a circle :) Those on the far left and far right have merged to become the two sides of the same idiotic and divisive fucking coin.
Nice list though, I really like the international sources you put in too. Best contribution to this post so far.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 29 2018, @06:38PM
shepard smith is a fucking mole and should have his head bashed in like one.