[Serious Question] Where do you go to find non-partisan news/information

Honestly, I like the reporting (not editorials) from the following:

BBC
Wall Street Journal
Christian Science Monitor

 

Financial times
Economist

There is bias in reporting but I like their analyses.

 

Clutch BBS

 

I speak many languages so I turn to international sources in addition to domestic news to form a more global and well-rounded opinion. Sources can be TV channels, newspapers, journals, or online as well the aforementioned.

Reuters
BBC
International Herald Tribune
Financial Times
The Economist
Foreign Affairs
Christian Science Monitor
Der Spiegel
Deutsche Welle
Le Monde
Nature
Science
Mental Floss
Smithsonian

 

I'm a lot more interested in the depth and accuracy of the reporting than the lack of bias. Every reporter brings a bias, and if they try to hide it, you usually end up with shallow, empty news like the USA Today. The Wall Street Journal and NPR are both noticeably biased, but they also both are very good news sources with generally reliable information.

 

Does not exist.

 

Al Jazeera

 

is that where you got your al gore story you tried to pound in every thread. care to address the latest news

 

no, that came from Al Gorpoodlea.

 

For me, it is anything written down. Written articles can be read, digested, parsed, and fact checked more easily than anything on television.

I don't watch MSNBC, CNN, or Fox with a single exception. I will watch CNN during hurricane coverage.

I rarely watch TV news, local or national, on purpose. Occasionally, I catch BBC when my kids leave the TV on channel 8 after their afternoon of Curious George and the like.

AP and Reuters are at the top of the credibility list for me, followed by The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Time, and Newsweek. Oddly enough, Rolling Stone is one that list for me, given their recent spate of great political articles.

 

Wow. Hand-written news sounds old skool!

 

It doesn't have to be on papyrus, an online article counts as "written down" for my purposes.

 

There's a difference between non-partisan news sources and news sources that don't exhibit any sort of bias. There are many non-partisan news sources who strive to be objective, but still may lean one way or the other on certain issues. I personally just look for sources that strive to be objective and non-partisan and then just make sure I'm aware that even then I might not always get a full picture if I never look at other viewpoints.

The Economist/Economist.com
Politico.com
TheHill.com
Associated Press or Reuters articles through Google News
FactCheck.org
politifact.com

On the radio I listen to NPR and on TV I watch CNN or PBS.

 

baby brett has A.B. Stoddard on as a commentator a couple of times per week.

 

I just started going to that site recently and I've never looked at the opinion page. I think seeing Dick Morris and Markos Moulitsas as the promoted columnists when I first visited scared me off.

 

Well....if that's the way you feel, watch Fox and listen to conservative radio for one POV and watch CNN or MSNBC and listen to NPR for the other POV, and extrapolate what you feel is pertinent. I like the TV news reporting on Fox and CNN well enough. The only TV news commentary I really watch is O'Reilly. And don't let anyone fool you: O'Reilly and Hannity are NOT the same right-wing ideology.

So to sum up: go with multiple sources, measure them up against your beliefs, and take what you feel you need to agree or disagree with, and form an opinion.

 

i find it interesting that the great majority of the criticism of Fox News comes from people whose sole exposure to same is clips from opinion shows excerted on MSNBC or liberal blogs.

try watching the 6PM (ET) news show. i liked Brit Hume better, but brett is growing into the role.

of course, there is a "panel" discussion, that does feature conservatives, but Krauthammer is just genius, and offers the most trenchant political commentary available anywhere.

 

NPR often seems to go out of their way to not be biased in regard to politics. They don't really have an Op-Ed section but often invite conservative and liberal commentators onto talk shows and to give commentaries.

Anyway the best thing to do is to get your news from a variety of sources. You can filter out bias by seeing which facts are reported in common. So for instance while Fox and MSNBC might have a different slant on a story like the passage of financial reform you can get a good sense of what is in the bill by looking at what they report in common.