Is there any unbiased news sourced that is best to use?

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1. AP or Reuters.

2. I mean the idea that CNN is liberal is deeply amusing to me. ALL news sources have some kind of bias. That said as far as commitment to reporting standards goes NPR and PBS’s news services are generally quite good.

3. Christian Science monitor.

4. There is no neutral news source.

5. It’s worth pointing out that the “lean” of CNN is nowhere near as extreme as the “lean” of FOX, and that news media like CNN regularly platforms *more* conservative voices than liberal and certainly far-left pundits.

   Like, yeah, CNN is slightly liberal, but it’s also just *nowhere near* Fox News in terms of bullshit.

   But don’t get me wrong; CNN sucks, it’s just not because it’s got a “heavy left wing bias”

6. The AP wires are fairly stripped down with a minimum of opinion. What you have to consider though is that each news source will only show stories about what they care about.

   I think the best thing to do is check multiple sources.

   If you don’t get all your news from a single place, you’ll always see a variety of opinions.

7. Don’t stick to just one is my advice. Not every news site is going to report every story that you might be wanting to read. I would recommend using [this as a guide](https://adfontesmedia.com/) to get an idea of which sources are less partisan

8. You’re not going to be able to find a single news source that’s unbiased and purely fact based. It’s best to watch several that expressly disagree with each other, politically.

9. All news sources have bias. That being said, out of the major cable news networks in the US, CNN is probably as close to the vanilla middle you can get with a slight liberal tilt.

   The issue with Fox News is that while their news department is actually pretty vanilla with a conservative tilt, their opinion hosts are mostly off the deep end and pretty crazy to be it mildly.

   I think the best and most unbiased news sources are the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, AP, Reuters, Financial Times, and the Economist.

10. I balance AP (left of center) with WSJ (right of center) for political coverage. Because no, there is no unbiased resource.

    I’ve also been enjoying a lot of bari Weiss’s common sense substack. Though, that has a certain bias of its own and focuses much more on essay and long form stories than breaking news.

11. NPR is about as good as it gets.

12. PBS NewsHour and NPR – You’ll find that most Americans are neutral and don’t subscribe to all the ideals of either side as if we’re in a faction war.

13. Personally, I like the Associated Press, BBC (especially for any global news), NPR and PBS News Hour for my news. Usually I try to get stories from at least two sources. If it is a big enough story I will even go out of my way to see what Fox News is saying about it.

14. You always have to check with multiple sources. But media bias is much more insidious than we realize or can account for. Even completely ‘factual ‘ sources can be extremely biased based on what they choose to cover. Large media companies also choose to hire people of a particular mindset (see Noam Chomsky “if you believed different, you wouldn’t be sitting here”)

    At this point, when it comes to politics, we’re essentially just living in a simulation of reality created by large media companies.

15. Many of us do pick a news station and run with them. But it’s all biased in some way because anybody delivering news has an objective. The way I get around bias is by reading the same news piece from multiple opposing sources and pick out the parts they all agree on.

16. I watch a little bit of everything. I try to source from a variety of sources in order to investigate both sides and make a logical decision. Unfortunately there are massive amounts of propaganda. Fox isn’t news, it’s entertainment. Their alleged news program “Tucker Carlson” has argued in court that they’re entertainment and no reasonable person would take them seriously- and they won.

17. General rule of thumb any online large news source that is not labeled as Opinion on top is a good accurate source(the only real bias I notice from them is the choice article they push/write). TV news sources are almost always extremely bias.

18. I like the AP, BBC, and NPR.

19. The problem is, to Fox and other right wing sources, even neutral is too liberal.

20. I don’t know if there ever was an unbiased mainstream news source in America. Definitely not now. On big issues (Covid, war) they all parrot each other as if being directed by the government. On political issue it’s mostly establishment democrat leaning except for fox. Better off looking for foreign news stations in English.

21. Don’t watch cable news. At the end of the day it’s entertainment and has to have some lean and degree of sensationalization to keep people watching. That being said, of the big three CNN is the least biased (but still left leaning). Fox News and MSNBC are unapologetically biased to the right and left, respectively. The latter is basically a DNC mouthpiece and the former is batshit insane Trump lalaland.

    For print, Reuters and AP are by far the least biased since they’re the news wire sources. From there, NY Times and WSJ are low bias, albeit with slight left and right slants. Their opinions section, however, is a different story.

22. Hard core conservatives will tell you their news is unbiased and the truth, and Liberals will say the same thing. The rest of us listen to many different sources. At this point I’m unsure if there is a truly unbiased news source in the US.

23. I just read AP News and The Hill, that’s easily the source of the majority of “News” from aggregators.

    If you go anywhere else for news, 8/10 times the article is going to cite one of those 2 things as the source.

    I just cut out the middle man and go to the source now.

24. I use Associated Press

25. I prefer The Hill or Breaking Points.

26. My best friend is an anchor and professor and she says PBS is the best for reporting just the news.

27. Basically as soon as anyone hears a news story they don’t like, they decide that source is biased against them. So asking people for their personal opinions on the matter isn’t going to be helpful.

    That said, the chart referenced in this comment is the most helpful guide. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAnAmerican/comments/vc412y/is_there_any_unbiased_news_sourced_that_is_best/icbwnlk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&context=3

28. There’s no such thing as unbiased. You need to critically think.