is there any trustworthy news website with actual professionals ?

Joao Sapiro

ok i dont want to start a political debate. Just want to know if there are any good non biased news websites that try to focus on the story rather than the shock and mixing facts and deturpation of facts ?

right now i check either cnn and foxnews and cross info to see more or less what it is, then i search on msn.com , forbes and some local newsgroups , and this is tiresome to get unbiased info , is there any good place where you have good journalism ?

EarthQuake

BBC?

Ruz

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/

slightly snooty, but better than most trashy news sites

notman

Yeah, I was just about to post the link for the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/

It's hard to tell if anything is unfiltered though, since many media outlets share the same info.

Ferg

www.csmonitor.com

Joao Sapiro

yeah forgot to mention i also read bbc from time to time, but i find their website a cluttermess , anyway yeah so far its the most thrustworthy i can find, keep em coming.

Paul Pepera

http://www.theonion.com/

Firebert

^

Farfarer

The BBC's sliding a bit on the neutral ground these days, but I still find it to be one of the more reliable outlets.

The Onion, too

JohnnyRaptor

www.rense.com ?

killingpeople

www.foxnews.com

fmnoor

http://www.reuters.com/ ?

sicsided

http://liveleak.com

Ryno

killingpeople, that is hilarious.

Jeremy Wright

I second Reuters, Liveleak, and BBC. Everything else is pop-culture-saturated trash slanted to far one way or the other.

Sage

BBC is sliding as well. The best way to find news is to double check anyway. check and compare notes. The first step is to know what to search for though. then google what you want to verify. I wouldn't blindly trust the web though nor the tv for that matter.

Target_Renegade

This is classic, Charlie Brooker is a funny person: [ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm4GiyyVKQQ[/ame]

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvN5IPLGs9c&feature=related[/ame]

Justin Meisse

Johny wrote: »

is there any trustworthy news website with actual professionals ?

nope

TakuanDaikon

Johny wrote: »

ok i dont want to start a political debate. Just want to know if there are any good non biased news websites that try to focus on the story rather than the shock and mixing facts and deturpation of facts ?

Not that I've ever seen. Perhaps there are some non-commercial or non-profit ones somewhere, but certainly nothing mainstream.

Target_Renegade

Anything that hasn't got Rupert Murdoch as boss, he owns so much media, its scary.

Jeremy Wright

Thanks for clueing me into Charlie Booker. I'll have to check out the rest of his show.

mikezoo

I like BBC, and Cnn, but my favorite is aljazeera. intresting prespective.

http://english.aljazeera.net/

Ferg

deleteme

Target_Renegade

8FtSpider wrote: »

Thanks for clueing me into Charlie Booker. I'll have to check out the rest of his show.

Cool, most of what he talks about is the news media in general, it focuses on Britain, but still takes the piss out of everything.

gavku

http://www.thedailyshow.com/

Bal

http://www.indymedia.org/
But yeah, best is to compare infos from different sources.

ElysiumGX

http://news.google.com/

snemmy

gavku wrote: »

http://www.thedailyshow.com/

I liked the one quote about the Daily Show viewers being the most well informed people on the election(I forget which it was) compared to people who only watched CNN or FOX.

TWilson

Associated Press: http://www.ap.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associated_Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists. Many newspapers and broadcasters outside the United States are AP subscribers, paying a fee to use AP material without being contributive members of the cooperative.

As of 2005[update], the news collected by the AP is published and republished by more than 1,700 newspapers, in addition to more than 5,000 television and radio broadcasters. The photograph library of the AP consists of over 10 million images. The Associated Press operates 243 news bureaus, and it serves at least 120 countries, with a diverse international staff located all over the world.

Junkie_XL

http://antiwar.com/

They rip on democrats just as equally as they rip on neocons. They've been ripping on democrats more so lately because they're in power, and well, the wars still be goin' on with no signs of stopping. Dems have stepped up their game in Afghanistan and everyone is talking about getting into Pakistan now.

Sage

From looking at the news in Massachusetts and comparing it to say how the news was broadcast in say Puerto Rico, the experience just left me feeling, how is this really news. It seems in the States there really isn't a segment anymore that deals with events happening in the other states unless they are happy cherry things and sometimes they show some crime. While living in PR the news channels showed events that happen in PR, Europe, USA, Latin America of course. Things have changed in the media for the worst in the States. In MA there is one company that owns most of the newspapers, which I think is pretty scary if you start to consider freedom of speech and free press. The Daily show is starting to be more news worthy and for all the wrong reasons. Like John Steward said this is a comedy show not a news show, when we start being more objective than the news channels we have a problem... One of the things that hasn't made the news at all is how there are a bunch of politicians trying to remove minimum wage and overtime for the last eight years. You would think this was new worthy to the people in the States considering if you only make minimum wage in most of the country you can't afford to live anymore...

bounchfx

nakednews.com?

is that even still around?

Xenobond

Wii News Channel. ^_^

Parnell

Honestly, I check them all or anything i can find. I usually go msnbc.com to see if the world is ending. Then bounce over to the BBC to see if it's really real. Then hit up foxnews.com to get another perspective, then check huffingtonpost.com to get another perspective. Then check a conspiracy site to see if there is anything "they" aren't telling me. Basically, I just feel like you can never read enough even if it's totally wacked out crap...sometimes that's the best.
B

Ruz

http://english.pravda.ru/
pretty amusing stuff at times. lots of bizarre stories

jocose

What about the news hour on PBS? Surprised nobody mentioned that.

Jeremy Wright

jocose wrote: »

What about the news hour on PBS? Surprised nobody mentioned that.

Yeah PBS is pretty good. We get good local programming on PBS and the Presidential debates were only watchable on PBS. All the other networks had to much gimmicky bullshit scrolling at the bottom.

FAT_CAP

http://boingboing.net/

Asherr

yeah the website co-run by the guy who wrote a novel called 'Little Brother' about a teenage hacker who fights the totalitarian tactics used by the US government after an earthquake devastates San Fransisco is totally unbiased. :poly121:

FAT_CAP

Hah - I don't know the history of any of the guys behind boinboing but it certainly informs me of stories that other sites don't... and it was one of the only news sitest that I know that hadn't been posted yet!

Any site which makes me aware of cool goat/man/mutant hybrids such as these
...


must be good in my book!

CrazyMatt

omg i've never heared of the onion news, but this is hard to believe it's real?!
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http://www.theonion.com/content/video/fat_kid_successfully_avoids

Rick Stirling

^^^^^

Wanna buy a bridge?

Farfarer

*bangs head on desk*

Rox

Trustworthy news sites? Nope. Even one that would purposefully try its best to be objective about everything would still end up with information collected by one guy with a microphone and a tape recorder. Personally, I don't even read international news anymore. I only check the local paper, I can tell when they're being honest. Something like "this apartment downtown caught fire last night, the police think it was intentional" is kinda hard to twist. For "important" things like wars and various overblown diseases, I always end up hearing about them from friends or on other forums and such. But usually it turns out they aren't that important anyway. It's been a while since I heard anything more on swine flu.

Or maybe I'm just weird. I just don't feel like I need to know all these things people want me to know.

ArtsyFartsy

http://www.factcheck.org/

News related.

edit:

http://www.c-span.org/
the only true unbiased news

Mark Dygert

You're own eyes are probably the only thing you can trust, outside of that I catch NPR which I guess has a Democratic slant but there aren't commercials and it seems like logical balanced news.

I also use the google news widget which pulls from a bunch of different sources.

sprunghunt

http://www.sbs.com.au/news/ (a bit australian centric but very unbaised)

If you watch this, then watch fox news, the shock can be so great that you'll go into a coma for a few seconds