Serious question: What major media outlet do you see as purely fact-based and objective, untainted by any form of obeying in advance? Can you name two? Three?
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We need heroes in these times not cowards. I have not watched the news since the election. I’m so angry with the way they treated VP Harris compared to Trump.
There are no major media outlets that have not already shown that they are going to obey in some form. At least not in the US. At the next level down, there is ProPublica and independent journalists on Substack, etc. I think The Atlantic has been tainted as well.
Isn’t the problem that as a society we no longer agree on what qualifies as “fact-based and objective”? You have people in this thread accusing NPR of being “biased” towards Palestinians. Is coverage of IDF snipers killing children “biased”?
The Overton Window has been dragged far to the right.
I've switched more to Reuters and NPR since the election. Neither of them have the breadth of coverage/topics as some of the other legacy media that I've lost confidence in since they abandoned objectivity for their owners' personal ambitions.
David, I'd say The Seattle Times does a very good job on fact-based reporting for its news stories. Those stories are fair, balanced and accurate. If the Times makes a mistake, it publicly corrects the story. Also, I read the London Times and LeMonde, and I think they do a good job too.
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Pre-Trump, the NYT, WashPost and LA Times may have been be on my list.
Tier 2: PBS, NPR, AP, Rueters, The Guardian, BBC
Some of my tier 2 used to be in tier 1 but maybe I’m more critical.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/
BBC uk
The Overton Window has been dragged far to the right.
The good old Beeb
Overseas agencies that are not in either pocket. They seem to have less time to devote to comment or shade, is they’re covering a lot of non-US ground
https://www.cbc.ca/
I feel like this a trick question.