I'm looking for something that's hard to find: An unbiased news source. Any ideas?

[Onyx Oblivion]

The ones that I can think of that carry no-extremely little bias are: npr, pbs, and cspan.

These are all publicly funded hence no need to need to entertain, hence no need for a bias.

Looking into those now.

 

[orangeapples]

unless you go out and find the information all on your own, you're not going to find one.

BBC is pretty good though.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I'm doing a paper on Media Bias, no matter which political affiliation they lean towards, and still can't find an unbiased news source to use an example.

Any help in finding one is appreciated. It's allowed to be a news website, too.

Maybe you should make one yourself. You could center it in Antartica so as not to have any affiliation with any country. However, then you'd probably be biased toward global warming.

 

[Zetsubou]

The Daily Show with John Stewart is biased only against stupidity. Otherwise CNN is pretty good, mostly because they have pundits from both the right and left.

 

[thiosk]

I think you should watch MSNBC for a half hour, then watch Fox News for a half hour.

Combined together, there is no net bias.

 

[axia777]

al jazeera, they are the only nonbiased news network in existance.

ROFL. You are funny. NOT.

I think you should watch MSNBC for a half hour, then watch Fox News for a half hour.

Combined together, there is no net bias.

Now this was funny!! ROFL. They are both different sides to the same coin.

I say both CNN and BBC are as close to unbiased as any news source is going to get.

 

[RyQ_TMC]

It is simply impossible for a news medium to be unbiased. Even those which set out to be objective usually do so in response to a specific medium seen by them as most biased - and so they end up biased towards the other end of the scale. And pretty much every single medium is biased by virtue of people working there having their own opinions on the happenings. It needn't even show as visible rants, it might just be that a medium would be more likely to put specific news items on their main pages and relegate the ones they deem less important to subsite status.

News media are biased because people are biased. Including you and me.

 

[geldonyetich]

Just avoid Fox News or MSNBC. The first is biased by nature of being greedy corporate whores. The second is based by nature of trying to counteract greedy corporate whores.

In a way, I use both. I watch both of them to see both sides of the story.

I don't think that'd work. Getting two kinds of misinformation just results in having a whole of conflicting misinformation.

 

[Lonan]

CBC is very good, although you will hear people stealthily put bias into it occasionally.

 

[chronobreak]

I hope your paper didn't hinge on finding an unbiased source, it won't happen. Your best bet is to get it from a lot of different sources, realize where their bias lies, and compensate that part with information from sources who are not biased in that particular area.

 

[malestrithe]

CNN is about the closest you will ever get to unbiased reporting in this country. CNBC is also fairly unbiased as well.

CNN is actually quite left-wing.

Are you sure? The only left wing reporting they seem to do is environmental issues, and that is only because their evil corporate masters care about the environment. They do have a sunday morning show called reliable sources.

 

[lazy_bum]

Unbiased news is an oxymoron. though the BBC is the closest you will find.

 

[Pielikey]

Go report it yourself, finding an unbiased news source is going to be a wild goose chase. As many have said, BBC is probably as close as you'll find.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

al jazeera, they are the only nonbiased news network in existance.

ROFL. You are funny. NOT.

I think you should watch MSNBC for a half hour, then watch Fox News for a half hour.

Combined together, there is no net bias.

Now this was funny!! ROFL. They are both different sides to the same coin.

I say both CNN and BBC are as close to unbiased as any news source is going to get.

jihad on you, you person of the west.

 

[Naheal]

I'm doing a paper on Media Bias, no matter which political affiliation they lean towards, and still can't find an unbiased news source to use an example.

Any help in finding one is appreciated. It's allowed to be a news website, too.

Any news source will inevitably be colored by the reporter, be they left or right wing. What you're looking for is an impossibility.

 

[ThatsBitch3n]

Fox News. amidoinitrite?

 

[axia777]

al jazeera, they are the only nonbiased news network in existance.

ROFL. You are funny. NOT.

I think you should watch MSNBC for a half hour, then watch Fox News for a half hour.

Combined together, there is no net bias.

Now this was funny!! ROFL. They are both different sides to the same coin.

I say both CNN and BBC are as close to unbiased as any news source is going to get.

jihad on you, you person of the west.

Al Jazeera is the Fox News of the Middle East.

CNN is about the closest you will ever get to unbiased reporting in this country. CNBC is also fairly unbiased as well.

CNN is actually quite left-wing.

Yah, they are Left-Wing when compared to Fox News. When compared to MSNBC they are very Conservative. So when you look at it logically they are really very Centrist and non-biased.

 

[Break]

I'm doing a paper on Media Bias, no matter which political affiliation they lean towards, and still can't find an unbiased news source to use an example.

Any help in finding one is appreciated. It's allowed to be a news website, too.

Is that even a realistic concept? I mean, simply by the nature of reporting a story, the end product has been filtered through the writer and their editor's personal bias towards what constitutes a newsworthy fact, story, or quote, as well as the writer's bias towards what angle is the most important on to take - there're any number of subconscious leanings that could easily be interpreted as political bias. Even if they try to be unbiased, it still hinges on what they personally believe to be an unbiased approach.

I think there's a reason you're having difficulty in your search.

 

[ma55ter_fett]

al jazeera, they are the only nonbiased news network in existance.

ROFL. You are funny. NOT.

I think you should watch MSNBC for a half hour, then watch Fox News for a half hour.

Combined together, there is no net bias.

Now this was funny!! ROFL. They are both different sides to the same coin.

I say both CNN and BBC are as close to unbiased as any news source is going to get.

jihad on you, you person of the west.

Al Jazeera is the Fox News of the Middle East.

CNN is about the closest you will ever get to unbiased reporting in this country. CNBC is also fairly unbiased as well.

CNN is actually quite left-wing.

Yah, they are Left-Wing when compared to Fox News. When compared to MSNBC they are very Conservative. So when you look at it logically they are really very Centrist and non-biased.

Insulting our news networks by comparing them to your western propaganda filth channels is not a wise move if you value the hair on your chinny chin chin.