NPR mostly
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NPR stays pretty lean on the editorials and opinions. I'm not big on the panel discussion from the 24/7 news companies like Fox, CNN, MSNBC, etc. Not that they don't have a bias, but they more or less let you make up your own mind.
I feel the reason why cnn or fox have panel discusions is because they are made for tv and with for profit motive. While Npr is a nonptofit and made for radio. Radio allows npr to easily and cheaply role the news live practically 24/7 and it just opens them up to do more. While with tv news its more expensive, and they dont really have as much freedom but the auduence is larger. Tv news has to more desperately make the money back they spent.
Associated Press
Reuters
BBC
The Onion
I read mostly tech news these days.
Ars Technica, anyone?
Ars Technica
They have been great for a long time.
The comments section there has some serious subject matter experts on a wide range of technology.
I just use hacker news for tech stuff. If an article on there is BS, you can be sure that someone will call that out in the comments after about 5 minutes. And if not, there's almost always a good discussion with very few insults.
Ground News
This is the one I like. It not only gives you Left, Center or Right leaning articles, it also tells you how factual the new source that you're looking at is
Only in the paid version.
That said, simply comparing the headline across sources will tell you an awful lot about how factual they are.
There are a few sites that do the same thing but I find All Sides to be a very quick way to know how biased a news topic is and what neutral really is.
Allsides is the one I usually use, not by choice it's the first resualt when I search for news bias chart. By news topic, you mean the news source or the topic?
I mean topic as in what happened.
I just took a quick look at All Sides. How does it compare to Media Bias/Fact Check? I don't know how to "fact check" either one of these sources but that's what I have to do so.
Thanks for sharing All Sides, it is new to me.
I mostly get my news from memes these days.
John Oliver
The Onion
Memes
Fediverse comments: I sort them out in my mind to distinguish truth from rubbish schizophrenics
Why not just go to sources that don't have a real leaning? OK, they are hard to find, but they still do exist. Try the BBC for an English-speaking source, or ARD and ZDF in German.
I have no traditional news sources. I subscribe to Quillette, Taibbi, Greenwald, The Free Press, and Sullivan. I regularly read Caitlin Johnstone and Kareem Abdul Jabbar.
All of them. It helps to compare.
CBC is pretty good at covering most topics that are relevant to me.