Where can one go to get unbiased news?

[imported_tajmahal]

In Canada it's illegal to broadcast false or misleading news.
So CBC CTV and Global

LOL at CBC being unbiased

http://www.thecanadaguide.com/news-and-media
" When it comes to covering huge national events like elections or natural disasters, CBC can still dominate, but in other contexts, the network’s coverage remains more controversial, especially among conservative Canadians who feel the network has a persistent left-wing bias."

 

[KMFJD]

In Canada it's illegal to broadcast false or misleading news.
So CBC CTV and Global

we have our own breitbart in the making with rebel media

 

[Orignal Earl]

LOL at CBC being unbiased

http://www.thecanadaguide.com/news-and-media
" When it comes to covering huge national events like elections or natural disasters, CBC can still dominate, but in other contexts, the network’s coverage remains more controversial, especially among conservative Canadians who feel the network has a persistent left-wing bias."

Right wingers everywhere feel the news has a left wing bias

 

[Orignal Earl]

we have our own breitbart in the making with rebel media

The Rebel is not news though right?

 

[compuwiz1]

Haha....silly wabbits, we're never going to get unbiased news. These are the times we live in, sensational, hyperbolic, spun, cutting floor edited, yellow journalism. The only way to get the whole truth is to be a fly on a wall, or an eye witness.

 

[Svnla]

I like to watch/read foreign news to get different point of view. I do like NHK in Japan and Aljazeera in ME and BBC in UK.

Pure unbiased news? I do not think it is possible.

 

[UglyCasanova]

The NYT really discredited itself this election, something they'd readily admit. Shortly after Nov 8 I got sick of it and called to cancel. The girl I spoke with slashed the price for a couple months to keep me on and admitted they were hemoragging subscribers due to their election coverage. I still think the NYT is a great paper and puts out some of the best investigative journalism, but i also think they need to do some soul searching after their biased coverage of the election.

PBS as mentioned above is a sure bet. Although you can tell they do lean left, it's much more controlled and professional than NPR for instance. It's a shame we just lost Gwen Ifill because she was one of the best.

 

[compuwiz1]

The NYT really discredited itself this election, something they'd readily admit. Shortly after Nov 8 I got sick of it and called to cancel. The girl I spoke with slashed the price for a couple months to keep me on and admitted they were hemoragging subscribers due to their election coverage. I still think the NYT is a great paper and puts out some of the best investigative journalism, but i also think they need to do some soul searching after their biased coverage of the election.

PBS as mentioned above is a sure bet. Although you can tell they do lean left, it's much more controlled and professional than NPR for instance. It's a shame we just lost Gwen Ifill because she was one of the best.

Yep, and gone too young!

 

[KMFJD]

The Rebel is not news though right?

Social and political commentary i guess..

 

[JSt0rm]

In Canada it's illegal to broadcast false or misleading news.
So CBC CTV and Global

we need that law here.

 

[sandorski]

"Bias" is not the problem. You should be more concerned with Accuracy, True, and Not Misleading.

 

[UglyCasanova]

"Bias" is not the problem. You should be more concerned with Accuracy, True, and Not Misleading.

The NYT and much of mainstream media turned out to be not just biased but also highly inaccurate as far as coverage of this election cycle goes.

 

[sandorski]

The NYT and much of mainstream media turned out to be not just biased but also highly inaccurate as far as coverage of this election cycle goes.

In what way?

 

[imported_tajmahal]

Right wingers everywhere feel the news has a left wing bias

And the answer to the original poster is ........... You have to decide for yourself by checking out various sources and keeping an open mind.

 

[UglyCasanova]

In what way?

 

[Victorian Gray]

LOL at CBC being unbiased

http://www.thecanadaguide.com/news-and-media
" When it comes to covering huge national events like elections or natural disasters, CBC can still dominate, but in other contexts, the network’s coverage remains more controversial, especially among conservative Canadians who feel the network has a persistent left-wing bias."

LOL at J.J. McCullough being considered a good source for *anything*.

 

[sandorski]

That's what Polls seemed to be showing. So that's what they reported.

 

[Blue_Max]

Right wingers everywhere feel the news has a left wing bias

In the case of the CBC, the Liberal party is literally paying them big bucks for favourable coverage.

 

[sandorski]

In the case of the CBC, the Liberal party is literally paying them big bucks for favourable coverage.

That's stupid. They are primarily Publicly funded, regardless of Governing Party and always have been.

 

[Brainonska511]

How was that "wrong"? That's what the polling models predicted at the time. Also, last time I checked, 7% of winning was not 0% chance of winning.

 

[boomerang]

In Canada it's illegal to broadcast false or misleading news.
So CBC CTV and Global

Who determines that, the Ministry of Truth?

 

[nageov3t]

I don't think it exists... personally, I just like to read from a variety of sources.

as much as I read the Washington Post and NY Times, I also read RedState and National Review... I also force myself to listen to a couple conservative/libertarian podcasts just to hear some dissenting views, even if their coverage makes me angry.

 

[shortylickens]

Your local barbershop.

 

[dank69]

You can get factual information from any source. Even Infowars or Breitbart will have some actual facts sprinkled among the rest of the crap. It's pretty easy to determine the difference between an actual quote and an editorial interpretation of said quote. There is video evidence. Official transcripts, audio, etc. If the original source is an anonymous official you can safely assume you are being lied to. If all the linked sources point to other articles from the same site you can safely assume you are being lied to. The fact that you are asking for unbiased sources just tells us you aren't capable of figuring this out for yourself.

 

[pauldun170]

Step 1 - Learn your fallacies.
http://www.iep.utm.edu/fallacy/
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fallacies/
https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/659/03/
http://writingcenter.unc.edu/handouts/fallacies/

Step 2 - Take a basic critical thinking course.
http://ocw.usu.edu/English/introduc...ic-prose/week-1-monday-critical-thinking.html
http://www.ed.ac.uk/institute-academic-development/postgraduate/taught/learning-resources/critical
https://www.umb.edu/academics/caps/degree/creative-thinking

Armed with those two, you can probably extract fact or at least the trail that leads to fact from any bullshit news source you come across.

Step 3 - Avoid editorials until you have a clue about the subject matter.

If a news article list a blog as a source - The article is probably not worth reading.
If a news article list previous articles on the same site as a source - Its probably sketchy and not worth reading. ("the classic "as we previously reported..." click bait circle jerk)
If opinion\editorial are sprinkled about the article, its probably not worth reading.

If an article talks about federal budgets, contracts, bills or laws, sources should include the actual documents from *.gov.

If it reports on a conflict, the article should not take sides.

If an article is going heavy on adjectives when talking about foreign leaders or uses incorrect titles (Instead of using official title of "King Douchebag of Bwapistan" they refer to the person as "Brutal Dictator Douchebag of Bwapistan" then its probably a not worth reading.

If the article is filled with assertions without providing any meat and potatoes behind those assertions then the article is probably not worth reading.

Always judge an article or report on it own merit. Journalists\Editors are human. Sometimes even the best push out a shitty misleading article.

buncha other stuff but whatever. Got stuff to do