All news is biased. Every time someone writes something down, it has a perspective to it that provides a selective view of the truth. There’s no such thing as purely objective. The closest you can get is to aggregate multiple sources on any news worth your time. I find Ground News useful for this because it makes it convenient to look at multiple sources sorted by bias and then draw your own conclusion. Rather than trusting people not to make a straw-man out of opposing views it helps to hear what people actually think in their own words. You might even learn something, although I know no one really enjoys finding out their opponent actually has a point.
Jon Stewart, Jimmy Kimmel… Colbert used to be a good one but they assassinated the show.
Ground.news is my go-to source, and they have a very useful blind spot feature which specifically shows you stories you might not be aware of based on your political leanings
YMMV, but I found https://apnews.com/ pretty good. I haven’t really looked at news sites for a few years, so I apologise if this site actually sucks now.
Reuters and AP (Associated Press) have long been well regarded as being generally neutral.
I usually watch the facts being reported and then tune out once all of the talking heads are discussing said facts. Always try to get more than one set of facts from more than one source to make sure the facts are similarly solid, regardless of the noisy opinions about the facts. At the end of the day it’s up to you to separate the wheat from the chaff. Don’t get fooled like Roger Daltrey did.
I follow NYTimes to learn what the big money wants to talk about and ProPublica to learn what the big money doesn’t want to talk about. Between the two of them, I think I stay decently well informed. In theory, I could know all things if I read them enough.
No such thing as unbiased news. Even Associated Press and Reuters make decisions about what to report on. Those are two solid choices too, by the way. Pretty flat and even-handed.
No such thing. Get multiple biased sources that agree on the facts but not the interpretation and make up your own mind
You don’t.
All news has biases. You find sources that are pretty good, and get to know the motives; and just read critically.
Tons of sources that are compromised in one area or aspect have excellent reporting in another.
According to https://app.adfontesmedia.com/chart/interactive there are a few that are nearly unbiased.
I use the chart to review sources as I come across them. It’s where I realized The Week is the lefty version of The Epoch Times.
I use https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/
I also just follow independent reporters that have a bias I like, are honest about that bias, and cite their sources. (Nothing is ever truly unbiased)
You can get news from just about any source, but the trick is this: the only real information is in the discrepancy between what they say and what you would have expected them to say based on their past reporting and other sources.
Before you read an article from a known source, try to anticipate what the broad strokes will be. If the article matches your expectation, you’ve learned nothing and can ignore it. If they say something unexpected, it’s because they encountered something unexpected and are trying to accommodate it. So figure out what would make them change their story as they have—that’s the actual news.
