AF62 wrote:Clariman wrote:DAK of any good online news sites that are broadly impartial, other than BBC News?
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My reason for asking the question: I have increasingly found the BBC News website a bit bland and would like an alternative to supplement it.
The problem is that to deliver impartial news it is either bland so it doesn’t upset anyone or there are a mixture of pieces with each setting out a different point of view.
The trouble with the latter approach is those who seek to be offended and look for bias only see the pieces that disagree with their viewpoint and ignore the others, and so call ‘biased reporting’.
The only realistic way to achieve a balance is to read a wide variety of news sources, both those who’s viewpoint you might agree with and those you find obnoxious, and then somewhere in between the truth might exist.
Or to express it another way, do most people really want "unbiased" news? I suspect what they really seek is a source whose biases are similar to their own, thereby providing a comfortable read.
So if someone claims that, for example, The Guardian is unbiased but the Telegraph is biased, then that immediately tells me more about the utterer than it does about those two sources.
But there is another factor as well. I dislike The Guardian but do look at it anyway, partly to know what the enemy is thinking. It makes me aware of possible threats to my welfare and prosperity. Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.