What are some good unbiased (as possible) news sources?

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I'm sure this question may have been asked before, but, um, well, it deems asking again, no?

I want to know what's going on. The combination of Al Jazeera & American sources (CrapNN, Fox"News"EntertainmentFoodProduct, etc.) aren't really helping much. I also get BBC World News on the tele thanks to PBS, which is pretty good it seems. What other sources would you all recommend?

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I've just bookmarked a wide range of news sources. Arab News, Yahoo, BBC, Pravda, The Age, Fox, Guardian, CNN, Reuters . . .

I wouldn't want to trust just one news source, especially in a war.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:53 (twenty-three years ago)

I am currently digging the Financial Times.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

The BBC Radio World Service is the best and most intelligent I've come across.

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 24 March 2003 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Alternate information sources..

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

You have to pay, but www.stratfor.org is a good source of extremely objective uber-analytical political discussion.

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Wow, I missed that thread.

I really like Reuters and Pravda pretty well too, as well as the India Times. I've always been under the assumption that the key to proper understanding of world events = as many different sources as possible.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:56 (twenty-three years ago)

You have to pay, but www.stratfor.org is a good source of extremely objective uber-analytical political discussion.

I agree wholeheartedly based on when I was following them after 9/11 before they essentially limited everything to paying consumers, alas.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 March 2003 17:58 (twenty-three years ago)

What was Frank Zappa's favorite again? Was it the Sentinal?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 24 March 2003 18:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Pravda has to be one of the most overtly biased sources out there. Nearly every story aims to paint America (its people as well as its govt) in a bad light. It is not a good thing when you can tell what the political opinions of a reporter are from a non-op ed piece.
Here's one example:
Basra: 77 civilians butchered

― oops (Oops), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Well yeah, Pravda is pretty noticeably biased, but I really get a kick out of the juxtaposition of Pravda vs. Fox News.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:01 (twenty-three years ago)

No doubt. I'm more wary of Fox, since they claim to be 'fair and balanced' and attempt to hide/deny their bias. (Pravda admit that they are pro-Russia)

― oops (Oops), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

i just use ILX for my news.....

― j fail (cenotaph), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:23 (twenty-three years ago)

The Agonist is a pretty good blog that's compiling recent tactical data. Far as I can tell, the guy hasn't slept yet (and he's the only one that mentioned the whole thumbs up thing)

― Chris Barrus (xibalba), Monday, 24 March 2003 19:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Pravda was the only place that reported Saddam having a UFO and giant scorpion guards.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Monday, 24 March 2003 20:21 (twenty-three years ago)

I was rather comforted by Peter Jennings' coverage of the war on ABC. I wasn't picking up any overt conservative bias, although he was a little harsh on the Sarah Lawrence College professor (name escapes me) who spoke against the war the night that bombing began. I've been watching ABC and CNN, and wholeheartedly avoiding FOX News, where They Report (the skewed data and laughably subjective points of view) and You Decide (to either vomit in disgust or soak it up like an eager little Republican puppy.) If only I had regular access to the BBC, but alas, I am a sad liberal American.

― justin s., Tuesday, 25 March 2003 08:12 (twenty-three years ago)

I put a load on this thread

Good News Source...in English

no news is unbiased though, read as many as you can and build up a picture

add albawaba to that list

― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 08:22 (twenty-three years ago)

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