Poll: Which news sources do you trust?

[Ironic Pirate]

All of them.

"What!" you say, "But that makes you a mindless sheeple!"

No, what I mean is that if say, FOX says that Obama was found to have Nazi stuff, and no one else does, then I won't believe it.

If, however, they report that Canada declared war on Morraco, as well as all the other news sources, I would trust it.

 

[Aulleas123]

also LOL nobody whatches fox... HA!

Actually, FOX is the most watched news network according to ratings. Maybe this is why it's so scary.

 

[Macgyvercas]

Why isn't there an option called "anyone but Fox and the tabloids"?

 

[capin Rob]

The daily Show, Not for news. Just the stupidity of the people he shows. So funny watching Republlicans and Democratcs say dumb things.

 

[Snowden's Secret]

Why, The Onion of course!

But seriously, I voted for the Daily Show.

 

[lukemdizzle]

daily show and colbert report.

but when I want to watch the news without lafing PBS is the best.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

I watch Fox News. And the occasional 10 tv

 

[Kair]

What about Wikipedia?

 

[Slycne]

I'm going to throw a wide idea out here, so bear with me. There is no truly unbiased reporting and you're going to trust which ever news source most closely aligns with your personal political leanings, when you get down to the basics of it. Right, Left, Neutral, Apathy, etc.

 

[Life_Is_A_Mess]

The Escapist, for all those cool, wacky and interesting news.
When Escapist isn't around, I watch BBC.

EDIT: I don't get it why people watch FOX News. I saw it once and it looked like a soap opera converted to news.

 

[SteinFaust]

i enjoy the news from BBC, Reuters, and Al-Jazeera (the good one, not the terrorist one).

but as far as rapier wit and calling bullshit on people, i trust Jon Stewart.

 

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MaximumPC

 

[SteinFaust]

What about Wikipedia?

hurr hurr hurr, i see what you did there.
seriously though, you'd get better, more accurate news from that glue-sniffing hobo in your local public park.

 

[Jonesy911]

I don't trust any news network 100% but BBC is pretty good

 

[Loonerinoes]

Very simple rule about news in general:

"Observe everything, admire nothing."

Every bit of news always is and will be biased towards a certain direction or the other because it is provided to you by a human being. And there is no such thing as a truly unbiased human being. But that doesn't make all news worthless. Only two things need to be remembered when reading any bit of news:

1) Towards which side does the bias lean. (right-wing, left-wing, corporate, anti-corporate,...)
2) How far does it lean. (most heavily-sponsored press sources with few contributors have to maintain a fairly heavy lean to continually curry favor with their contributors, somewhat less-reliant and spread out ones usually less so, because of a greater number of contributors and hence less reliance on any one of them).
3) Remembering to form your own opinion at the end of reading it and not echo that of another (or at least not too much most of the time).

I'm going to throw a wide idea out here, so bear with me. There is no truly unbiased reporting and you're going to trust which ever news source most closely aligns with your personal political leanings, when you get down to the basics of it. Right, Left, Neutral, Apathy, etc.

And this is pretty much my sentiment on the matter too.

 

[riotwraith]

I don't really trust any. Even if it is a reputable news source (see: The complete opposite of Fox) you have no guarantee that you're getting an unbiased report with all of the facts in. I watch the news sometimes, but I watch multiple sources on the same subject and don't really form any opinion about it. Especially since most of it doesn't affect me anyway. I mean, the fact that there was an earthquake in Haiti a while back is interesting, but how does it affect my life at all? Besides people asking for donations.


Yeah, the Daily Show is funny, but I can't trust it for an entirely different reason. It feels cheap to express opinions about something serious through comedy. With comedy we're supposed to ignore obvious facts from time to time for the sake of a joke*. There are times where I'll read about an event before I see it on the Daily Show, and Jon Stewart will clearly ignore some important fact or other (even one he himself said five minutes ago) for the sake of going "HURR DURR DAT GUY IS SO DUMB". If that were the only place I got my news I would be full of misinformation for exactly that reason.

*If you made a plane entirely out of the material the black box is made out of, it would be too heavy to fly and still wouldn't protect the passengers from being splattered on the inside. ATM keypads are mass produced, and it would cost more money to specifically make a bunch without braile just for the drive-throughs. That sort of thing

 

[MikailCaboose]

Well, we've got the problem that no matter what we try to do, we as humans will always add in our own perception into anything we do. because of that, there really is no true unbiased reporting. The best place IMO are places like these forums, where you have a good chance to find both extremes of the same argument and you can decide for yourself.

News seems more to be opinion-based, pointless crap or just the usual "_people died" story.