Which News Sources Do You Consider Most Reliable and Most Objective?

[nageov3t]

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I get 95% of my news from The New York Times or The Washington Post, but I wouldn't consider either to be increadibly objective, and the grey lady has lost some reliability points in the past couple years.

 

[jackschmittusa]

For breaking news, I usually flip between CNN and MSNBC on TV. I hate the local TV newscasts. They seem more entertainment than news oriented. Local news I get from the local newspaper. Most other news I get form many links on my internet start-page links (many and varied).

 

[Orsorum]

BBC, NPR, The Economist.

 

[GrGr]

Originally posted by: jackschmittusa
For breaking news, I usually flip between CNN and MSNBC on TV. I hate the local TV newscasts. They seem more entertainment than news oriented. Local news I get from the local newspaper. Most other news I get form many links on my internet start-page links (many and varied).

We saw during the invasion that "breaking news" frequently were nothing but propaganda i.e. "scud attacks", "Jessica Lynch" etc.

Personally I do not trust any news source that does not challenge directly the "facts" presented by the government or military. US mainstream media really has no credibility after it's failure to provide a clear and sober analysis of the Bush administration's spin and warmongering.

There are no perfect news sources but I see the Guardian and the Independent (due to Robert Fisk) in the UK as reliable and objective.

 

[bozack]

I flip between CNN, NBC and Fox....figure that about balances it out.

 

[biostud]

Danish Radio, Information (Danish Newspaper) which BTW also have translations of the Robert Fisk articles, BBC

 

[arsbanned]

The Onion.

j/k, BBC. I glance over CNN, MSNBC, WP, NYT, LAT, and stream NPR.

 

[JHoNNy1OoO]

Read USATODAY and my local paper Miami Herald. For tv I watch Tom Brokaw at 6:30, Chris Matthews, then O'Reilly(know thy enemy ), and finally Larry King.

 

[GreatBarracuda]

BBC

Edit: CNN is utter drivel

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

BBC (world news), NPR (world/national news), NewsHour (national), and WSJ/Bloomberg (financial info) are easily the most reliable. They are also objective in the sense that they allow guests to provide diverse POVs but the interviewer almost always challenges them on the facts. The background info provided by NewsHour is second to none.

Now when it comes to the most OBJECTIONABLE news . . . FauxNews is peerless . . . well except for the NY Post and the OpEd of the WSJ.

Christian Broadcast Network (700 Club) sux great big donkey balls, too.

 

[Klixxer]

Originally posted by: biostud666
Danish Radio, Information (Danish Newspaper) which BTW also have translations of the Robert Fisk articles, BBC

SOCIALIST PROPAGANDA!!

 

[b0mbrman]

Fisting for peace is like fvcking for virginity

I stick to CNN Headline News for quick updates while getting ready for work or during lunch and skip around CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, C-SPAN, BBC in the evenings depending on which has an interesting program on.

Obviously, I'd consider C-SPAN the most reliable or objective of the lot because there's no opinion or commentary involved when you're just watching the events themselves. For the others, I've learned to understand where objective coverage ends and opinion begins and do my best to tune the spin out

 

[Klixxer]

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Fisting for peace is like fvcking for virginity

I stick to CNN Headline News for quick updates while getting ready for work or during lunch and skip around CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, C-SPAN, BBC in the evenings depending on which has an interesting program on.

Obviously, I'd consider C-SPAN the most reliable or objective of the lot because there's no opinion or commentary involved when you're just watching the events themselves. For the others, I've learned to understand where objective coverage ends and opinion begins and do my best to tune the spin out

LOL, you are the first one who noticed, it was changed a couple of nights ago, me, Jero and n0cmonkey hijacked a thread and just kept it going all night.

n0cmonkey said that i would forget to change it back and people would be like

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: Klixxer

Originally posted by: b0mbrman

Fisting for peace is like fvcking for virginity

I stick to CNN Headline News for quick updates while getting ready for work or during lunch and skip around CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, C-SPAN, BBC in the evenings depending on which has an interesting program on.

Obviously, I'd consider C-SPAN the most reliable or objective of the lot because there's no opinion or commentary involved when you're just watching the events themselves. For the others, I've learned to understand where objective coverage ends and opinion begins and do my best to tune the spin out

LOL, you are the first one who noticed, it was changed a couple of nights ago, me, Jero and n0cmonkey hijacked a thread and just kept it going all night.

n0cmonkey said that i would forget to change it back and people would be like

C-Span > CNN > MSNBC > People's Republic of China TV > Faux news

 

[Moonbeam]

The Pacifica Stations, Radio Free Berkeley.

 

[Infohawk]

News from a country that has no interest in the question.

OR

PBS

 

[Steeplerot]

BBC

 

[Rainsford]

news.google.com

Sometimes you get linked to the Polookaville Post Dispatch...sometimes it's Fox News...sometimes it's Al Jazeera. The point is that I don't trust ANY of them to be objective or fair, so I go for quanitity and figure they will all balance out. By the way, for all you Republicans out there watching Fox News, if I find myself liking one particular source too much, I stop using it. Why? Because if I like it ALL the time, chances are it's a little biased in my favor. As nice as that can be on the ego, I want news, not ego stroking.

 

[ntdz]

cnn and foxnews. everything else is garbage imo.

 

[conjur]

C-SPAN, NPR, PBS, NY Times, WaPo, Christian Science Monitor, CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, BBC, Financial Times, WSJ, Newsweek.

 

[ElFenix]

NYT and WSJ. sometimes CNN-i

 

[AcidicFury]

CNN, BBC, NPR, WP, Newsweek, Businessweek, C-SPAN, News and Observer, Economist

 

[Harvey]

NPR

 

[0marTheZealot]

i grab my news from a variety of sources, domestic and foreign.

 

[jjzelinski]

Strategic Forecasting. Quite often it's a bit over my head, but it's always an excellent read. You have to subscribe to it to read some of the articles though.