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La Paix

Fuck this place
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Would like to see who people follow on Twitter as well.
 

Freeloading Rusty

Here comes Rover, sniffin’ at your ass
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Associated Press - The Associated Press - A non profit & independent news organization.

Google News for an aggregate. I dont vouch for the quality of new outlets but it provides a quick scan of whats trending in the news across varios topics. Google News
 
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Freeloading Rusty

Here comes Rover, sniffin’ at your ass
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FYI anything sourced from TheRebel is garbage.


Anyone who posts shit from TheRebel is probably trying to push a certain agenda.

TheRebel has had to issue numerous public apologies and been sued for libel multiple times for the fake news they publish.

Ezra Levant is a snake.
 

Left Hook Larry

3x Undisputed Monsters Champ/King of Buttertooths
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The Colbert Report

Unbiased news source with some funny thrown in. Usually my go to.

www.huffingtonpost.com

Another news source maybe a bit right leaning but pretty unbiased.

Breitbart

Ran by racists and big meanies avoid at all costs. If someone references this site their point is invalid.
 

kneeblock

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Honestly, the best resource is to go to the Congressional record and actually read the hottest bills being floated through Congress. You can do so here:

Most-Viewed Bills - Congress.gov Resources -

Also do the same for Presidential actions which you can do here:

Executive Orders

After that, go to a site like www.allsides.com and see what both political perspectives are proposing on the issue. Understanding which side you support on particular legislation may be influenced by your own gut biases, but ideally it's influenced by having studied some history, economics, political/social science and maybe some psychology and philosophy at some point.

If you don't feel you have at least rudimentary informed perspectives in each of those areas you should probably avoid taking political positions until you go back and shore up your game. And realistically you can do that in 2 weeks on Wikipedia. It would be better if you did it through more in depth research like reading books and journal articles, but 2 weeks on Wikipedia is just a refresher on whatever you forgot from high school/college plus a few new ideas. You can literally type in economics, social science, history, psychology etc., and go from there.

Armed with all of this background PLUS knowledge of what's actually in the bills and orders rather than spin from either party PLUS perspectives from the different sides including whatever anecdotes and stats they drag along with them PLUS an occasional dip over to www.projectvotesmart.org to see who's bought and paid for by whom should give you a pretty good sense of what's going on.

If you claim you don't have time to, then why are you posting here? The fate of your country is being decided every day. You can be part of it or be a lemming. Go do that stuff. We can all wait. If you don't want to do any of that stuff, just read whatever news entertains you the most and regurgitate its talking points. There's genuinely nothing wrong with that, but when someone presses you for more substance to your rationale, just say "I'm not sure."

Those simple words "I'm not sure" are so seldom said in American culture and I think if there's anything the internet has made worse it's that.

Note: the above cited resources are for American policies and politics. If you are not American there may be some things you can use that are analogous, but I'm not sure.
 
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Whatever remnants of unbiased reporting either broadcasting corp. had once had is long since gone compadre.
I mostly read BBC for international news. At least I can spot the biases pretty easily, and they arent as overt or ridiculous as the major American news outlets.

I feel with most issues I'm allowed to make up my own mind and the writers aren't deliberately trying to get me to think a certain way.
 
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I mostly read BBC for international news. At least I can spot the biases pretty easily, and they arent as overt or ridiculous as the major American news outlets.

I feel with most issues I'm allowed to make up my own mind and the writers aren't deliberately trying to get me to think a certain way.
Your prerogative amigo. I find that the stories chosen and the angle taken have rather left-wing biases but compared to CNN or Fox then I suppose you do have a point.
 

jason73

Yuri Bezmenov was right
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i dont really think there is anything that is legit unbiased anymore.you kind of have to read a little of the right and a little of the left and use your own mind to find the truth somewhere in the middle
 
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Your prerogative amigo. I find that the stories chosen and the angle taken have rather left-wing biases but compared to CNN or Fox then I suppose you do have a point.
I do see what you mean with some of their left-wing biases, but most of the time they at least mention the perspective of the right, even if they don't spend as much time on it.

It could definitely be perspective. I'm used to such terribly biased news coverage on the level of RT News (but they try to pretend they're not that at all), so I guess maybe I see the BBC as a bit of a savior from all the propaganda I get from local news outlets.
 
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So then what do you have for us?

Where do you get your news from?
From the same places you do, that I can see a bias means I notice how said sources select and frame their stories, it doesn't logically follow that I know of some other sources. However, that's what this thread is meant to remedy.
 
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I do see what you mean with some of their left-wing biases, but most of the time they at least mention the perspective of the right, even if they don't spend as much time on it.

It could definitely be perspective. I'm used to such terribly biased news coverage on the level of RT News (but they try to pretend they're not that at all), so I guess maybe I see the BBC as a bit of a savior from all the propaganda I get from local news outlets.
Where would you say RT news bias lies.
What are the indicators I could look to (I just mean in generalities unless you have specifics)?
 
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i dont really think there is anything that is legit unbiased anymore.you kind of have to read a little of the right and a little of the left and use your own mind to find the truth somewhere in the middle
I tend to agree with this and get the impression no one wants to admit a bias because the logical consequence is they're either misinformed or just plain wrong about some of the opinions they have.....but I could be wrong.
 
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Where would you say RT news bias lies.
I don't know how anyone reads their articles or watches their videos. That's how bad it is. If people want to pay attention to the Putin propaganda machine that's their prerogative, but for me it's worse than Fox News or CNN.

What are the indicators I could look to (I just mean in generalities unless you have specifics)?
Look at how all other news sites (the left-leaning and right-leaning ones) are depicting a big story and then look at how RT News is depicting it.

Also, when something happens that would make mother Russia look bad, check if RT News even reports the story, and if they do, how.