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BodyButter

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Can anyone on here recommended a news website which reports the news without an agenda?

I've been reading The Guardian since I started uni. I used to buy the physical newspapers until I came here in 2003. I've been reading the website since.

I'm sick of the constant spin they put on every story. Everything is gay rights, feminism or anti-Trump. All I want is to catch up on what's happening in the world.
 
All I do is use newsnow and read as many sources on the story as I can. You can usually illuminate the spin soon enough and make a reasonable stab at what's really happening.

I don't think I've found any one publication that has been unbiased on every story.
 
Agrees with Heath. I also read weekly/monthly magazines on what's happening in the world. My main source is The Economist. You can read so many articles a week online free. You can have the 1st 12 issues for £12 and have them as online listen/read for the full magazine. I found alot in their very interesting and it covers all sorts of subjects
 
Youtube :3:

I started using Newsnow years ago for Villa news, but I use it for general news now too. It is handy to have all the links from different sites in one hub.

I like to check BBC or Sky too to see what bullshit they're putting out to the general masses, and then go and investigate myself.

Also recently I've been watching a lot of The Jimmy Dore Show, you can find some very interesting stuff on it about current news topics that fly in the face of what the mainstream is saying.
 
Every outlet is Editorially standpointed now with shrinking ownership. If you want something truly unbiased in all honestly you're looking at local rags because of the community aspect but they have to be independent - but of course they won't cover the news you want.

As Heath says, to cut through the bias in some respects it's best to get a BBC, FOX/Sky pieces and then supplement that with newspaper coverage with different ownership and throw in a piece from abroad covering it as well.

At least then you can cut through the middle of the spin and go with the commonality of the true report/facts in the piece.

But again, no outlet is free from bias whether it's owner/company standpoint because of friends, the message they want to send and it will go as far as not reporting on some issues it doesn't want to address because it doesn't fit them as an outlet.

Fantastic piece on the way the industry has changed and what the new focus is and the lengths outlets will go to in order to get a share of the pie financially.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/when-silicon-valley-took-over-journalism/534195/

Once a story grabs attention, the media write about the topic with repetitive fury, milking the subject for clicks until the public loses interest. A memorable yet utterly forgettable example: A story about a Minnesota hunter killing a lion named Cecil generated some 3.2 million stories. Virtually every news organization—even The New York Times and The New Yorker—attempted to scrape some traffic from Cecil. This required finding a novel angle, or a just novel enough angle. Vox: “Eating Chicken Is Morally Worse Than Killing Cecil the Lion.” BuzzFeed: “A Psychic Says She Spoke With Cecil the Lion After His Death.” TheAtlantic.com: “From Cecil the Lion to Climate Change: A Perfect Storm of Outrage One-upmanship.”
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