This is actually a very good thread.
As with all "news", one should always try and read between the lines. Much of modern news is mostly fear mongering.
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I tend to use BBC and NPR mainly for me.
A few others mentioned here aren't bad though. As usual trying to read the same story with a couple of view points is usually good regardless.
And yeah Al Jazeera is usually good for more info on the actual war stuff going on, though as mentioned earlier they do occasionally let some bias come through on certain topics, but that's true of most I guess.
I've grown to like the skeptic community on YouTube. Try the Rubin report
Well, one of the most important things to understand is that while no major news source is perfect, most of the mainstream are actually pretty good at being neutral. The GOP has been waging a war against neutral news sources to keep from answering their pointed questions / issues. This has made it sound like Washington Post and New York Times are some extreme liberal newspapers when, if anything, they are slightly right leaning publications. The goal is to have everyone distrust every news source so that people will never be able to understand what is going on.
While this picture isn't perfect, it is far better than most attempts to explain where the news sources stand...and my complaints wouldn't change them largely from where they are, but just small tweaks (e.g. The Wall Street Journal IMHO is closer to being where The Hill is than depicted in the picture...still solid work, but more partisan than shown).
What I do like about the image is the use of two dimensions to separate basic news from much more in-depth reads. If you really want to understand what is going on, don't just look at the left / right axis, but spend your time on the upper half of the chart.
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If your media literacy is so low that you aren't capable of judging and fact checking news sources on your own, I think a more back to basics approach is needed, not a list of sources. I recommend reading Carl Sagans The Demon haunted World to start.
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If you can't be bothered to learn how to tell fact from fiction, you'd be equally served ignoring the news as you would reading it. With that level of profound and unmitigated laziness and entitlement, you will never be able to form coherent opinions anyway.
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you are really only demonstrating my point by prioritizing political bias over whether things are true or false.
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All you need is Saloon and Buzzfeed
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Yeah, that is one area where they tend to show a slant. But to be fair, I think it's less 'we don't like the Jews' and more 'we don't like the Israeli government'. I've never understood why it's OK to criticize Obama or Trump or Merkel or Abe, but not Netanyahu. Governments do bad things sometimes, and calling them out on it doesn't automatically constitute an attack on the people they happen to govern.