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RiverStone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 12:57 PM
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Which news outlet is the least biased (in any direction)?
I'd vote for the PBS News Hour With Jim Lehrer; though even some of their correspondents have a conservative twang at times.

Of course, as a progressive - I'm too biased to see things objectively.:)
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hatrack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 12:59 PM
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1. I'd leave the country, so to speak - BBC, AFP, Deutsche Welle
All excellent organizations, with minimal celebrity drug/sex/drinking/incest/cult scandals.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 01:00 PM
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5. Deutsche Welle is excellent...
...and available on shortwave. BBC shortwave no longer broadcasts to the USA.
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Deep13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 12:59 PM
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2. PBS or NPR. BBC is also pretty good.
It is hard to tell the truth and not to appear to have a bias. As we all know, reality has a liberal bias.
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in_cog_ni_to Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 12:59 PM
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3. OOPs...misread...now I see "least biased" in the title. :)
Edited on Fri May-11-07 01:00 PM by in_cog_ni_to
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Squatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 01:00 PM
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4. Fark.
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roamer65 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 01:02 PM
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6. CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) is in 1st place for me.
They did a great recap of Tony Bliar the other night. Very balanced. Second place is BBC. They're not as critical as the CBC, but are lightyears ahead of any US media.
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Phredicles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 01:25 PM
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7. In the US, I'd say NPR and PBS,
And they have their own pressures that they face, but they do a better job than the commercial netrworks.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 01:35 PM
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8. Newshour is the best in America
NPR and BBC are both pretty good.
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 03:18 PM
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10. I would heartily disagree with that
I like DemocracyNow in the US.
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 03:27 PM
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12. I was thinking in terms of mainstream news.
I don't have cable anymore so I haven't seen it in awhile,and forgot all about it,but I agree that it's excellent.I should remember to listen to it,but I'm a music junkie and when I think "Let's listen to something" it usually ends up being more psychotic music than politics and news. :)
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greendog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 02:24 PM
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9. If the outlet is owned by a corporation...
...or receives funding from corporations it is too biased to take seriously. Turn it off!
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 03:18 PM
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11. The Daily Show?
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-11-07 03:31 PM
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13. Christian Science Monitor has had pretty good journalistic content, imo.
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