After the news coverage about the US action in Venezuala I realised how many news outlets that I thought were reasonably impartial are actually influenced by the "official" line rather than investigative journalism.
Does anyone have recommendations on a news source which does not have any strong political affiliation or is influenced by outside forces?
Thanks.
a news source which does not have any strong political affiliation or is influenced by outside forces
I'm not sure how there could be one - any news source will be influenced by whoever owns/controls it and everyone has different political and social views and agendas.
I no longer view any news - too depressing.
The Times
i find the times quite right leaning in its bias (probably due to the reader base) but it is good for non politcal content.
Forbes I had not looked at but the bias seems minimal so I'm going to look deeper into this.
Thanks for the suggestions
I trust BBC
For me the turning point with the BBC was the way they handled the Jimmy Saville case - so much covering up and deflecting over a long, long period. I know a few actors from the same era who told me that the knowledge of what Saville was doing was widespread but he was making them too much positive coverage for them to want it to stop.
This sentiment seems common when you dig deeper into the stories yet the new outlet was heavily controlled on the subject until it was too far out of their control and they had to admit defeat.
Not nearly enough people were prosecuted as a result of the finding about this in my opinion.
You also see lots of lesser bias in other areas such as the Middle East, politics and the police - I can read between the lines with most of this but it has left me with little trust in the BBC for properly impartial reporting.
The Guardian has left wing bias - the way they cover political issues will show this. At the moment the Conservative party is a shambles so there is little need to flog them - they do it themselves. With the other right wing parties it is a little harder to tell because of the extremist elements in these parties. It can be like shooting fish in a barrel.
All the media has bias from what I have seen depending on who owns them, their customer base and their corporate affiliations.
I think the Associated Press may be one of the better ones but they are still slightly left leaning. This may be more due to the slightly liberal nature of journalists in general however.
I trust BBC, Newsnight, Guardian, also recently taken to ITV news as they are not as stuffy as BBC.
I used to be a i reader but stopped due to the coverage of disability benefits which seemed more like the Daily Mail than the i. I subscribed to The New world magazine instead. I do read The Guardian as well as The Canary and Private Eye have some fine journalism.
Aah to be sure, to be sure!
factual information rather than sensationalist hype
Very Irish then to be sure!
I watch RTÉ too but missed putting it in my post. They report factual information rather than sensationalist hype. Its international news coverage reports on important issues that the BBC and ITV omit.
I use bbc with a pinch of salt, but just saw my husband looking at RTÉ, and they have coverage and analysis of Venezuela, but not read it myself.
Does anyone have recommendations on a news source which does not have any strong political affiliation or is influenced by outside forces?
With regard to the latter (assuming you mean 'isn't'), I doubt such a thing exists.
and NOT Breitbart?
To add to my response, I checked out Politifact which is run by the Poynter Institute. According to Wikipedia (which isn’t a widely accepted credible reference source), the Poynter Institute have had to retract their own claims.
NOT Fox (Republican) or CNN (Democratic). I tend to trust BBC, Forbes, and The Times.
BBC, The Guardian, The Telegraph and Channel 4. Al Jazeera's good too, they give a very different viewpoint.
I don’t trust any news source on its own as they all bring bias and can be mistaken or misinformed.
I tend to read/watch/listen to news from the BBC, Channel 4, The Guardian, The Times, The Rest is Politics Podcast or YouTube, The Irish Times, Al-Jazeera, The New York Times. I read the newspapers free of charge online from the public library so I scan the main stories pretty quickly and can investigate something of interest further and wider as required. If a particular aspect or point in a story captures my attention, I search online for accounts that might discuss this.
it amazes me how most of the British news repeats the same thing across their TV channels/publicstions. I think they copy, cut & paste each other’s stories. Foreign newspapers are often much more diverse and report things of massive importance that rarely make British headlines. even the New York Times has some great news and interesting accounts, although it generally is reliable, it occasionally lets itself down.
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