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by jpizagno 1034 days ago
Does anybody have a source (CJ or traditional) that is unbiased?

It seems that everything from mass media to small tiktokers are so biased, I can't believe anything they say.

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Unbiased is the wrong premise.

Bias will always exist, so identifying it and consuming the spectrum is the way to see it. Seeing bias is better than avoiding it, as it helps you understand others perspectives (as they consume biased news.)

allsides.com is good. Modo News is good.

Looking for different perspectives doesn't seem very helpful in this case. "Tay is dead"; "Tay is alive".
If you don't trust either statement,you will need to accept the ambiguity and move on.
Good advice, she can take her place beside Schrödinger's cat.
The question i responded to asked about avoiding bias, not factual inaccuracies.
Nowadays my go-to source for unbiased (or perhapes better to say "non-partison"), easily digestible information on incredibly complicated topics is CRS: https://crsreports.congress.gov/search/#/?termsToSearch=&ord...

These are the people whose job it is to make complex topics understandable for both parties of congress. Its a fantastic source if you want to set aside 10 minutes to quickly digest a complicated topic.

For a fun example, see some of their reports on Directed Energy Weapons: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/details?prodcode=R46...

Its not really a news source, but then again you did not actually specify news and I wanted to shill CRS since they do fantastic work, especially given the tightrope they probably have to walk every day.

> I can't believe anything they say.

There's the bias problem, and it's one you can do something about!

Lack of bias doesn’t exist. Even people who are in good faith trying to be objective can’t help but report the facts through the lens of their worldview. Even reporting that just sticks to facts is colored by what facts reporters choose to highlight, what additional context they elect to provide, and which primary sources they treat as trustworthy.

The best you can hope to do is listen to a range of smart people who are transparent about their priors.

It seems pretty clear that the commenter is asking for sources who try in good faith to be objective.
Maybe, but OP specifically asked for "unbiased." So at the very least there is a confusion between the two concepts.
All news is biased and has been. Even if not deliberately, the journalists are not experts on what they report on so don't alwys spot errors or biases in their sources.

You have always had to read or listen to several sources.

Some sources are less biased than others. E>g. in the UK the print media is biased and readers do know which way e.g. Daily Telegraph is right wing and Guardian is left wing. The broadcast media is less biased as there is legislation to form some form of control. Most of the broadcast media get complaints from both left and right wing - although GB News seems to be firmly right wing.

you could try out https://ground.news/