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

[JackStorm]

I can't believe no one has mentioned reuters so far. So I'd have to say reuters and c-span.

Also, like Rainsford, I want news, information, not partisan drivel or ego stroking. So I try to get my news from as many sources as possible.

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

None of them. The NY Times, LA Times, CBS, CNN, Reuters, NPR, and AP are primarily mouthpieces for the left. The Washington Times, USA Today, and Fox News are mouthpieces for the right. The remainder waffle back and forth depending on who they think is reading their rag or watching their broadcast from week-to-week.

About all one can do is gather as much together from all sources and try to piece together the truth from the slanted BS the media presents. There is no single source of reliability and objectivity. Not a one.

 

[glugglug]

CNN and CBS are mouthpieces for the left? ROFLMAO.

BTW, NY Times has not been "liberal" in decades. Over two thirds of the editorial staff are registered Repuglicans.

I'd have to agree with you on NPR and AP though.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
None of them. The NY Times, LA Times, CBS, CNN, Reuters, NPR, and AP are primarily mouthpieces for the left. The Washington Times, USA Today, and Fox News are mouthpieces for the right. The remainder waffle back and forth depending on who they think is reading their rag or watching their broadcast from week-to-week.

About all one can do is gather as much together from all sources and try to piece together the truth from the slanted BS the media presents. There is no single source of reliability and objectivity. Not a one.

Wow. You really are clueless, aren't you?

 

[TastesLikeChicken]

Originally posted by: glugglug
CNN and CBS are mouthpieces for the left? ROFLMAO.

BTW, NY Times has not been "liberal" in decades. Over two thirds of the editorial staff are registered Repuglicans.

I'd have to agree with you on NPR and AP though.

The NY Times is one of the worst left-slanted major rags out there.

CNN has the tendency to bend to the left and CBS has Dan Rather, whose overcompensation of leftish-ness and blatant Dumbocrap (Isn't that clever, just like Repug is so awefully clever? ) partisanship completely outbalances any right-leaning views they carry.

Of course, this is all opinion anyway and there's no true method for putting the objectivity of any of these sources on trial, which basically makes this thread impotent and valueless.

Originally posted by: conjur

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
None of them. The NY Times, LA Times, CBS, CNN, Reuters, NPR, and AP are primarily mouthpieces for the left. The Washington Times, USA Today, and Fox News are mouthpieces for the right. The remainder waffle back and forth depending on who they think is reading their rag or watching their broadcast from week-to-week.

About all one can do is gather as much together from all sources and try to piece together the truth from the slanted BS the media presents. There is no single source of reliability and objectivity. Not a one.

Wow. You really are clueless, aren't you?

Not as clueless as your devoid of content reply.

 

[CaptnKirk]

My list, in no order of preference:

USA Today
Christian Science Monitor
Washington Post
NPR
FOX
NY Times
Reuters
LA Times
BBC
Google News
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Fort Worth Star
Saint Louis Today
Orlando Sentinal
Florida Today
CNN
MSNBC
Seattle Times
Army Times
Air Force Times
Time Magazine
Stars and Stripes
Associated Press
U.S. News & World Report
Lockheed Today = (Inside information - gotta work there !)

Then after considering all sorces, and their sub-sources, I think for myself.

 

[classy]

Originally posted by: ntdz
cnn and foxnews. everything else is garbage imo.

LOL foxnews is the most biased news station out of them all. Fox couldn't give an unbiased opinion or support an unbiased show if their lives depended on it. They are the closest thing to communist type reporting in America. Everything they report is geared towards the conservative point of view as well as the shows they feature, which will make a person throw up at best. MSNBC is by far the most balanced. They just give it to you straight as well presenting shows and opinions from both sides of the isle. Foxnews is the definition of garbage. Foxnews.........yeah right :roll:

 

[Ozoned]

Originally posted by: classy

Originally posted by: ntdz
cnn and foxnews. everything else is garbage imo.

LOL foxnews is the most biased news station out of them all. Fox couldn't give an unbiased opinion or support an unbiased show if their lives depended on it. They are the closest thing to communist type reporting in America. Everything they report is geared towards the conservative point of view as well as the shows they feature, which will make a person throw up at best. MSNBC is by far the most balanced. They just give it to you straight as well presenting shows and opinions from both sides of the isle. Foxnews is the definition of garbage. Foxnews.........yeah right :roll:

Fox broke the story about the Bush DUI thing, one night before the 2000 election.....

 

[Napalm]

CBC - surprised nobody mentioned it...

 

[GreatBarracuda]

yes, in Canada it is the most reliable source.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Napalm
CBC - surprised nobody mentioned it...

Guess no one has enough "Courage".

 

[Napalm]

Originally posted by: TastesLikeChicken
None of them. The NY Times, LA Times, CBS, CNN, Reuters, NPR, and AP are primarily mouthpieces for the left. The Washington Times, USA Today, and Fox News are mouthpieces for the right. The remainder waffle back and forth depending on who they think is reading their rag or watching their broadcast from week-to-week.

About all one can do is gather as much together from all sources and try to piece together the truth from the slanted BS the media presents. There is no single source of reliability and objectivity. Not a one.

I didn't think that people still bought the "liberal media" myth. Guess I was wrong.

 

[daveshel]

CNN for headlines - to see that something is happening, then NPR/PBS or BBC to get details. All over the place for a big story to compare the differences in coverage.

 

[glugglug]

I would have to go with MSNBC (not to be confused with the regular NBC) as the least biased. Out of the major broadcast networks, I would say WB (or PBS but I don't generally watch PBS because most of what they have is boring). ABC, NBC, CBS, and of course FauX are all "conservative".

 

[Martin]

Globe and Mail (paper), news.google.ca for daily news, The Economist for a nice, indepth look at the world.

 

[BaliBabyDoc]

Originally posted by: AcidicFury
CNN, BBC, NPR, WP, Newsweek, Businessweek, C-SPAN, News and Observer, Economist

Dude, I hope that isn't the Raleigh News and Disturber you are referencing. It sux. I should know . . . I subscribe. The rest of your list is pretty good except for Newsweek.

 

[Genx87]

CNN
FOX
NBC
ABC

To a lesser extent

MSN
Washington post
Star Tribune
Pioneer Press

 

[Mloot]

It probably slants to the right a little, but I get just about all my news from the Drugde Report.

 

[JHoNNy1OoO]

Originally posted by: Mloot
It probably slants to the right a little, but I get just about all my news from the Drugde Report.

Just about all your news from Drudge? Right a little? That's kinda scary how you would let your knowledge be controlled by one "entity". The fact that Drudge has a report that Kerry used a "cheat sheet" as his main story tends to mean he is right A LOT. What other news organization is reporting that unfounded crap? He reached in his pocket! He must've pulled out something illegal!

 

[Mockery]

Originally posted by: classy

Originally posted by: ntdz
cnn and foxnews. everything else is garbage imo.

LOL foxnews is the most biased news station out of them all. Fox couldn't give an unbiased opinion or support an unbiased show if their lives depended on it. They are the closest thing to communist type reporting in America. Everything they report is geared towards the conservative point of view as well as the shows they feature, which will make a person throw up at best. MSNBC is by far the most balanced. They just give it to you straight as well presenting shows and opinions from both sides of the isle. Foxnews is the definition of garbage. Foxnews.........yeah right :roll:

Funny how you mentioned MSNBC as your source after bashing Fox....

IMNSHO....MSNBC is for the left as Fox news is for the right.

In that sense...anything that has a commentator?s opinion deciphering an actual event is going to have some form of bias in it. For that very reason, C-Span > All

 

[DeeKnow]

Originally posted by: Orsorum
BBC

amen...

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: Mloot
It probably slants to the right a little, but I get just about all my news from the Drugde Report.

provided you ignore any of drudges made-up stories...
yes.

NPR, NYT, BBC (web only) then pretty much anyone throws my way....forums like this, google news, and yes, even drudge when im feeling super-lazy.

 

[Mloot]

Originally posted by: JHoNNy1OoO

Originally posted by: Mloot
It probably slants to the right a little, but I get just about all my news from the Drugde Report.

Just about all your news from Drudge? Right a little? That's kinda scary how you would let your knowledge be controlled by one "entity". The fact that Drudge has a report that Kerry used a "cheat sheet" as his main story tends to mean he is right A LOT. What other news organization is reporting that unfounded crap? He reached in his pocket! He must've pulled out something illegal!

I wouldn't say it's a matter of letting one entity control the news I consume, it's more a matter of convenience and choice. I don't really have time in the day to sit down and watch TV, and the Drudge Report gives me a short, concise web page where I can digest a few articles in my spare time. Plus, I like the fact that it is more Google-like (more minimalist, w/less distracting colors and banners and such) than most other news web sites.

Then again, I have a big distrust of government in general, so any political news stories I read have to pass through my filter of scepticism, which tends to weed out alot of the crap that I see posted for news these days.

 

[burnedout]

CNBC and C-SPAN.

Honorable mention: WSJ, WaPo, NPR, CNN

 

[Doboji]

C-SPAN all the way.