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Seeking a Good News Feed

MertzyMertzy Registered User regular
edited March 2009 in Help / Advice Forum
I'm looking for a good, unbiased new source online I can visit and possibly get e-mail updates from. Does anyone have any suggestions? Something with both national and international news.

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  • SkyGheNeSkyGheNe Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    There's no such thing as an unbiased news source. Your best bet is to look at multiple news sources from various perspectives and then come to some sort of conclusion based on the information acquired.

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  • kaliyamakaliyama Left to find less-moderated fora Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Yes, there is no such thing as an unbiased, or unperspectived, news source. But it doesn't mean we should draw moral or qualitative equivalence between all news outlets. Furthermore, newsgathering is likely to provide you with only a portion of the potential information on a topic, so one shouldn't feel they have a "complete" picture because they've read the breadth of the press corps.

    But unless it's related to your job, who's going to read six papers to make sure you're entirely well-informed?
    I would pick one major paper, either wapo or the nyt, and then read a couple of periodicals that aggregate and sort information for you. Depending on your interests, those might include the economist, the new yorker, the atlantic, the weekly standard, mother jones, grist, wired, or time/newsweek. All of these have websites.

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  • rfaliasrfalias Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Honestly to get the best mix of news, with the same stories from different sources, use

    news.google.com

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  • RUNN1NGMANRUNN1NGMAN Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    Yeah, there's no such thing as "unbiased" news, regardless of what Fox News says (haha). Newspapers such as the Washington Post, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times for the West Coast are all going to be relatively objective, at least in their A section. Even on the opinions pages, the Washington Post's editorials often lean right and they have many conservative columnists on the op-ed page. All news is biased because it's not written by a robot, but the reporters for major newspapers put a lot of effort into being objective (which is not the same as unbiased). Otherwise, they wouldn't have any credibility.

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  • AldoAldo Hippo Hooray Registered User regular
    edited March 2009
    I swear by papers that make it clear what their bias is, but a friend of mine loves the Reuters news feed, because they make an effort out of only giving the facts and don't bother with such things as analysis and commentary.

    http://www.reuters.com/tools/rss

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