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What news sources do you trust?

Iain

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.

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  • "Trust" is probably a bit far.

    Someone made a good point to me once that the BBC isn't funded by advertising and such, so they're not going to be cutting off their own revenue stream by reporting on something negatively. I'm not sure how it works for things like BBC worldwide, but I'm still fairly confident they would be less biased by such things than other news outlets as a result of the funding model. It's also why I'm happy to pay the TV license. It's not much per year to make sure that stays available and free for everyone in the country. 

    The thing that affects even the BBC though I think is a lot of things come down click through now. BBC headlines and summaries seem better, but I've still seen clickbait titles from them sometimes. Fewer and fewer people are paying TV licenses so the BBC has to do what they can to stay relevant, and convince people to keep paying the license. It also feels like they selectively enable comments depending how controversial a topic might be. Unfortunately clickbait and controversial content driving interaction keeps people on or coming back to sites.

    It would be great to have more investigative journalism, but those articles take a lot of time (and as a result, money).

    I think at the momemt the best thing to do is be aware of how biases and such can affect things, and try keep an open mind. Veritasium has an excellent video on youtube adout clickbait titles.

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  • "Trust" is probably a bit far.

    Someone made a good point to me once that the BBC isn't funded by advertising and such, so they're not going to be cutting off their own revenue stream by reporting on something negatively. I'm not sure how it works for things like BBC worldwide, but I'm still fairly confident they would be less biased by such things than other news outlets as a result of the funding model. It's also why I'm happy to pay the TV license. It's not much per year to make sure that stays available and free for everyone in the country. 

    The thing that affects even the BBC though I think is a lot of things come down click through now. BBC headlines and summaries seem better, but I've still seen clickbait titles from them sometimes. Fewer and fewer people are paying TV licenses so the BBC has to do what they can to stay relevant, and convince people to keep paying the license. It also feels like they selectively enable comments depending how controversial a topic might be. Unfortunately clickbait and controversial content driving interaction keeps people on or coming back to sites.

    It would be great to have more investigative journalism, but those articles take a lot of time (and as a result, money).

    I think at the momemt the best thing to do is be aware of how biases and such can affect things, and try keep an open mind. Veritasium has an excellent video on youtube adout clickbait titles.

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