Good independent news sites?

[VoidLivesOn]

Could anyone direct me to some good independent news sites? I'm not to sure how reliable news sites like yahoo are, but at the same time I'm trying to avoid extreme independent news sites where there just nothing but bias nonsense...you know something leaning more towards the truth?

[birdgirl73]

Hey, Void. Below is a good, central, all-purpose news site that has links to legit news agencies, services and networks all over the world. Scroll down on the Drudge home page and you'll see them all listed and linked there. Yahoo and other sites like it typically get their news from various wire services like AP and Reuters, and so it's legitimate news. It's just often slightly abbreviated, like a Readers Digest version of a story. But then, most online news is that way these days.

How biased news is is something you have to sort out for yourself after reading it in multiple places. I find CNN, ABC/CBS/NBC, the big metropolitan papers, and newsmagazines like Time and Newsweek fairly objective, but super-conservatives swear that they're riddled with liberal bias. Reporters do tend to be more liberal than average, generally, because they're usually well educated, fairly well traveled, better read than average--particularly in world affairs, and because their job is to question the status quo, which, at the moment, is conservative. They also question liberal politicians, too. Often the conservatives who yell "liberal bias" the loudest are only familiar with the very limited, polarizing, conservative-filtered information they get from people like Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, or other Fox News commentators. I find that few of the strongly conservative types I know have ever read an actual newspaper or magazine. They just hear--and believe--what little bits and bytes of polarizing noise they get from the loudmouth talking heads on TV.

http://www.drudgereport.com/

[graymatter]

The most reliable news source I know of...

http://www.theonion.com

[Torog]

Howdy Void,

I like going to FreeRepublic dot com,they do have a vast amount of links and resources,but you may find that they are somewhat biased towards the conservative side..lol.

Have a good one ! :thumbsup:

[Bong30]

Savage.com

[Myth1184]

CNN ABC CBS news are all Liberal friendly, Fox News (even tho people say its conservative friendly) always has a Left and a Right guest on their shows, unless the dude from the left is afraid to show up. MSNBC shouldnt be considered news, cause they are usually last to pick up stories.

Fox News is currently King of News.A Single hour show of The Oreilly Factor has more viewers than all other news networks Combined.

I personally switch between Fox News and CNN when im watching tv.

Birdgirl up there is your typical uninformed Liberal who swears everyone is against the left and that Liberals are better educated than Conservatives. If that is so true, then why the hell cant the people down in Miami-Dade county vote correctly?

Fox news has both Liberal and Conservative News Anchors, they have people from NPR on their shows as anchors...how many Conservatives does CNN...or ABC or CBS have on their shows? I can think of none.

[halo]

There are no unbiased news sources. You have to have an equal amount of bias. Read biased articles from both sides and then come to your own conclusion on the subject matter.

[birdgirl73]

Birdgirl up there is your typical uninformed Liberal who swears everyone is against the left and that Liberals are better educated than Conservatives. If that is so true, then why the hell cant the people down in Miami-Dade county vote correctly?

Fox news has both Liberal and Conservative News Anchors, they have people from NPR on their shows as anchors...how many Conservatives does CNN...or ABC or CBS have on their shows? I can think of none.
It's important to point out that Myth is not only uninformed, he's quite possibly one of the dumbest men on these boards. He's also a widely renowned coward. Noise comes out out of Myth (a perfect name, by the way), but when people challenge him, he goes into hibernation.

Myth, you say the word when you're ready. One of these days when you feel up to it and aren't hiding, we'll also take a news test when we take that two-way IQ test I challenged you to before. I'll ask a journalism professor friend at Columbia University to administer the news/world events test, and I've asked you to pick any non-Fox-created IQ test(s) you want. I promise you you'll find out real quick who's the more intelligent and who's the more informed between us.

By the way, Myth, look up and see where a commentator named George Will works when he's not writing a conservative column for Newsweek. It's called ABC News. You probably won't recognize his name or that of any other conservatives on the main networks and news mags because I think you really watch exclusively Fox. If you watched any CNN at all, you'd probably be smarter.

[Fengzi]

There are no unbiased news sources. You have to have an equal amount of bias. Read biased articles from both sides and then come to your own conclusion on the subject matter.

Halo's right. The reality is that any news source is a business and a business exists to make money. The other reality is that the truth is often boring and, as such, the truth doesn't sell. Whether the news source leans to the right or to the left, they all only tell partial truths, and twist them, to make the story more exciting.

It's also a fact that most people will form their opinion about a news story from the headline (or the opening statement if a tv news source). The media definitely uses this to sway people's opinions. For example, if you saw the headline "Police Pursue and Shoot Unarmed African American Man" your first impression will likely be "bastard racist cops". If, however, the headline says "Police Forced to Kill Child Killer After Harrowing Pursuit" you'd be thinking the guy got what he deserved. These could be two stories, from two different news sources, about the same incident. The different sources just use differet language, placed in a different way, to stear thier audience one way or another.

You may think "whatever, I can think for myself" but lets face it, most Americans are sheep, happy to be brainwashed and led around. How else could George "Dubya" Bush get elected? If you need furthur proof, just look at Bong (sorry pal, couldn't help myself ;) )