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Best non biased political newspaper?
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newspapers are on the whole terrible and horribly biased one way or the other, with every article spun to prove or disprove whatever silly world view they want to reenforce
papers like the daily mail exist purley as click bait these days, OH LOOK ANOTHER THING TO GET ANNOYED ABOUT headlines and OMG CONTROVERCY articles. aimed squarly at mr oppressed middle class whiteman. The guardian is just as bad but in the other direction.
BBC - i would say is the purest form of news channel you are going to get, is it perfect - not at all, but I cant see how anyone else can beat it as a commerical enterprise for being independant, almost too fair to the point that a lot of time is wasted on air either giving too much voice to minority opionion holders or self flagellating themselves over any "bbc" releated news story so that they can prove how transparent and open they can be (and therefore please dont take away the licence fee)
are they a bit lefty liberal? maybe - but maybe that reflects our society? or maybe of just the people that tend to become tv industry people?
when it comes down to it, i tend to belive things that respectable serious news journalists say over anything else - Jermery Bowen or John Simpson for example - if they speak, I'll give it to them that they have seen a lot of things and know what they are on about, bias or not.
papers like the daily mail exist purley as click bait these days, OH LOOK ANOTHER THING TO GET ANNOYED ABOUT headlines and OMG CONTROVERCY articles. aimed squarly at mr oppressed middle class whiteman. The guardian is just as bad but in the other direction.
BBC - i would say is the purest form of news channel you are going to get, is it perfect - not at all, but I cant see how anyone else can beat it as a commerical enterprise for being independant, almost too fair to the point that a lot of time is wasted on air either giving too much voice to minority opionion holders or self flagellating themselves over any "bbc" releated news story so that they can prove how transparent and open they can be (and therefore please dont take away the licence fee)
are they a bit lefty liberal? maybe - but maybe that reflects our society? or maybe of just the people that tend to become tv industry people?
when it comes down to it, i tend to belive things that respectable serious news journalists say over anything else - Jermery Bowen or John Simpson for example - if they speak, I'll give it to them that they have seen a lot of things and know what they are on about, bias or not.
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Non biased news source.
It's an oxymoron, the only way to rid news of bias is to find the facts for yourself. That would also save you the embarassment of discussing something based on things you read in the newspaper having no in depth knowledge on it.
It's an oxymoron, the only way to rid news of bias is to find the facts for yourself. That would also save you the embarassment of discussing something based on things you read in the newspaper having no in depth knowledge on it.
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BBC used to be good before it got massively reigned in by the tory twots
Gotta laugh at the Guardian suggestions. Easily as ridiculous as the Mail but swung in the other direction. 
I refuse to pay our media to harass people and peddle their own agendas so I just read the BBC. Sure it's a bit lefty and very dumbed down but if you watch out for it, it's easier to ignore.
I refuse to pay our media to harass people and peddle their own agendas so I just read the BBC. Sure it's a bit lefty and very dumbed down but if you watch out for it, it's easier to ignore.
I read the Guardian every day but as Tute says - they are far from unbiased. I remember seeing an article about the Tories pledge to bring down immigration to "tens of thousands/<100k"; the BBC reported May said it would be difficult to do this considering the figure was currently >200k and it may take longer than this term to do so but they would still keep trying. The Guardian (for a little while until the article was updated) wrote the polar opposite saying May was completely abandoning the target/admitted defeat. Both used the same interview.
Saw a heading for "The dark side of Reverend Moon" and thought "I wasn't aware he had a light side".
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It would be very hard to find news reporting that has no political bias. Read multiple sources, you will probably learn more that way. for example I read the guardian (left wing), telegraph (right wing, and small c conservative) , economist (strongly liberal socially & economically (note- liberal in its true sense nothing to do with the lib dems)).
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Haha really, you think the BBC is.
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Name a more neutral unbiased source for news in the UK.