Where can we tune in to unbiased news reporting today?

Della said:
I get an idea of what's happening from the headlines on Google news and then, if I find it interesting, I go to YouTube and watch what actually happened from the amazing humans who record every single thing on their phones. I wish our major newscasters would do the same. Often what they are reporting and what can be seen on longer videos are two different narratives.

I used to swear by NPR but their liberal bias has gotten way out of hand in recent years -- and I am liberal, so I can just imagine how conservatives feel about it. To hear it all on the TV news you'd have to watch CNN and Fox and you still might not have the true story.

Remember this incident:
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The long video on YouTube showed that the high school kids, who were standing on the steps as told to by their teachers, waiting for their bus back to Kentucky, had been jeered at and taunted by several groups, and the Native American had deliberately danced up to this kid and was pounding his drum in his face for quite some time as the kid stood politely. What the media described as a smirk was just an embarrassed smile.

I'll never forget Savannah Guthrie on the Today Show grilling this fifteen year old like he was a mass murderer.

His parents later won law suits from several news outlets. But Guthrie is still there, making the big money.
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The smirk is in his eyes. However at age 15, I'm guessing he smirked every day at 90%of what he sees and hears. I'll bet he smirked at his teachers too.

There are grown men making big money as professional comedians and actors and most of what they do on screen is smirking.

What are you gonna do? It's TV news. They want video - send them all your video of anything and everything. They cannot get enough of it. Addicted they are.
 
Actually my reason for asking the question, is that I don't find any that are credible in my opinion. At one time I felt I could agree with most of what I saw and heard on FOX news channel, and I do still listen to their programming just not as much. The other 3 major networks to me are not tolerable, leaning far too much to the left, and at times editing out portions to support an agenda. I have no time for Maddow, Gutfeld, Hannity, the View, or morning Joe. The best I have come up with, is a little bit of Fox News and newsletters from opposing view think tanks, then make up my own mind.
 
I read Reuters first thing in the morning to get a global picture to start the day. Then I watch several Canadian TV stations. They all have an obvious bent to their reporting.
 
His Dudeness said:
Morrow was NOT unbiased... in fact, you can trace the media bias back to him as the origin to why we are here today. His all-out attacks on McCarthy were well organized, well financed and proven false once the fall of the Soviet Union released documents proving McCarthy's actual statements to be true. In fact, all of the "proof" of McCarthy's McCarthyism has "disappeared" from the national and local archives, including the newspaper of record in West Virginia that originally brought forth the accusations. Cronkite was no better with his surrender statement for the Vietnam war.
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As far as news goes, you get what you want to hear. If news is too far to the right or too far to the left, you turn the channel to something you agree with, biased or unbiased. Humans don't like pain or discomfort, they like things that make them happy, of confident, not news that makes them think or cause discourse in their opinionated little world.
 
Speaking of bias:
Most of the current polls seem impossible to me. Then recently I read that they include a lot of small biased polls in the mix and give them the same weight as larger more believable polls. Shouldn't they have to share their methods with us?
 
TennVet said:
Several of our discussion threads have touched on the fact that in years past we were fortunate to have NEWS reported without the agenda driven commentary. Am I the only one who would like to tune in or read straightforward news from journalist as opposed to ratings driven talking heads? Help me out here. Is there a source of that news and I just haven't found it?
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You're looking for something that doesn't exist. All news, and especially so called "alternative media" has a bias. There simply is no "one stop" place to get unbiased news.

Talking personally, I accept that if you want to go deep on something, you have to read as many outlets as you can, both left and right. Then take the time to consider both perspectives. You simply have to do the work yourself.

For most news, frankly, the headline is enough. For example, the BBC reported today that the government here has announced an election for July. I simply don't need to know more than that. I don't need to dig deep into every news story.

Sadly, society is so dumbed down these days, all most want to do is read something that agrees with their political slant. These people become indoctrinated quickly, and there's no saving some of them.
 
VaughanJB said:
You're looking for something that doesn't exist. All news, and especially so called "alternative media" has a bias. There simply is no "one stop" place to get unbiased news.

Talking personally, I accept that if you want to go deep on something, you have to read as many outlets as you can, both left and right. Then take the time to consider both perspectives. You simply have to do the work yourself.

For most news, frankly, the headline is enough. For example, the BBC reported today that the government here has announced an election for July. I simply don't need to know more than that. I don't need to dig deep into every news story.

Sadly, society is so dumbed down these days, all most want to do is read something that agrees with their political slant. These people become indoctrinated quickly, and there's no saving some of them.
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Very good points. Sadly, I can't disagree with you. So read I will.
 
Tommy said:
Also, keep in mind that the news outlets have thousands of stories to choose from every day. The bias is reflected not only in "how" they report, but in "what" they choose to report. :(
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A very good point. Half the world sees one news and the other half sees another news.
 
I try to only expose myself to news that validates my already set in concrete opinions and beliefs. Life's too short to do otherwise.
 

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