Media Bias

[mooby]

Which news site would you say is the best in terms of sticking to truth and keeping bias out of articles?

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by mooby

Which news site would you say is the best in terms of sticking to truth and keeping bias out of articles?

There are things I like about all of them but unlike many others I realize that journalist are all so just humans and make mistakes as do Doctors,Teachers and Politicians.I all so can tell the difference from an "OPINION MEDIA" to a news media ,Shepard Smith is very good for one,there are many,good honest people in the media who do good honest jobs.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by mooby

Which news site would you say is the best in terms of sticking to truth and keeping bias out of articles?

The problem is, I dont think any of them are very good at it anymore. Very few articles are written in the spirit of "just the facts ma'am". Certainly, in my opinion, none of the outlets (fox, cnn, cbs etc) that put themselves as news first opinion second are reliable enough to trust their information on their name alone. CNN was at one time but social media and internet speed of news has changed that.

As for reporting agencies like ap or reuters, I trust reuters the most. In a short answer to your question reuters would be my most trusted news source.

I also like british broadcastng for an outside of the us viewpoint of stories, not that they don't have bias, but their bias is shifted from the traditional left right here in the us so as to give you insight through perspectives

[Chico23231]

Originally Posted by mooby

Which news site would you say is the best in terms of sticking to truth and keeping bias out of articles?

My local news tends to be very unbiased along with the richmond times dispatch

ABC morning shows and nightly news seems to be not that biased imo.

CBS and NBC...Morning and nightly news is clearly biased. I think CBS tends to be the most liberal lean with biased language, cherry picking facts.

To me, the most offensive is CNN...it’s straight propaganda and tabloid. The best thing they do is refuse to give any context, sensationalized headlines, they leave out facts, they refused to “prosecute” the obama adminstration for the exact same policies just several years ago, they present editorials as fact based, biased language, etc.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by mooby

Which news site would you say is the best in terms of sticking to truth and keeping bias out of articles?

Two I think do a very good job are NPR and AP. I all so like Reuters,Politico CBS,ABC and yes I like the WASHINGTON POST and NY TIMES .

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by mooby

Which news site would you say is the best in terms of sticking to truth and keeping bias out of articles?

This is a chart from www.allgeneralizationsarefalse.com that looks like the author has put good research into it.

[MTK]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

This is a chart from www.allgeneralizationsarefalse.com that looks like the author has put good research into it.

Interesting to compare this against Chico's post above where he thinks CBS
and NBC are clearly biased and CNN is doing the devil's work.

[Giantone]

Originally Posted by MTK

Interesting to compare this against Chico's post above where he thinks CBS
and NBC are clearly biased and CNN is doing the devil's work.

I like my choice's as well.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by MTK

Interesting to compare this against Chico's post above where he thinks CBS
and NBC are clearly biased and CNN is doing the devil's work.

From the blog writer's who i am page:

As I have said in other parts of this blog, I consider myself moderately liberal, but with a good understanding and appreciation of conservative positions. Some people think that means that the sources I placed on the chart should all be shifted over to the left one column. If so, that’s fine—you can mentally shift them all over to the left and continue to use the chart that way.

I doubt this is an exact graph and given Chicos fiery nature his characterizations are understandable

[mooby]

Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

This is a chart from Media Bias Chart - All Generalizations are False that looks like the author has put good research into it.

I'm really glad you found this, I saw this a couple weeks ago but couldn't dig it up later. For the most part it reaffirms my bias' on where I think most agencies stand too.