[paavokoya]

  quality news sources, like NPR

NPR is CNN marketed towards psuedo-intellectuals by replacing common terms with sophisticated sounding vocabulary. Most of the pieces that discuss topics I am heavily familiar with are shallow and often misrepresented.

I say this as someone who really wants to like NPR and struggles to find any unbiased news source.

[toddchambery]

I'm sympathetic to claims of NPR bias (still a big fan), but rather than seeking an "unbiased" source, I want a thoughtful, reasonable, open-minded and well-mannered conservative news source. It does not exist.

[0xcde4c3db]

You might look into the magazine The American Conservative. It's far from perfect (Pat Buchanan uses it as his soapbox from time to time, for starters), but on the whole it's pretty readable.