News Source(s)

NorTracNY · Jul 31, 2020

Now that Yahoo has removed comments I'm looking for a different free online news source(s). I can easily read the bias when I read news, so I'm actually ok with that. What I'm looking for is news that helps give me a more complete picture than what the author wants me to have. Yahoo news WAS good in that I could go to the comments where often people would report what the author wasn't telling us. I also liked Yahoo because it would grab from multiple news sources. I learned that some were just so biased that they were complete cr@p so I'd skip those articles completely.

One site that I have liked for a while is FabiusMaximus. It only has a few articles/week, but they are often well researched and provide links.

What sites do people here like? Hopefully people can be respectful and not attack others for their suggestions. What site and why do you like it? Again, I know all places will have a bias. What I want is a easy place to get different view points on a subject.

/pine · Jul 31, 2020

If you want straight forward news you have to pay for it...I recommend Reuters service...for strictly business news there are several good alternatives...

Your assessment of yahoo is way off the mark...they are so horribly biased their headlines alone are 99% fake news...even the comments are/were heavily censored...they are a joke that is not even funny...the only multiple sources they cite are ones that express their own points of view...regardless of the facts...

In perspective as invasive as they are to logged on subscribers google on the other hand at least offers several different philosophical sources to most news stories...

Diggin It · Jul 31, 2020

NorTracNY said:
Now that Yahoo has removed comments I'm looking for a different free online news source(s).

Y! is/was a news aggregator. They collect and display articles from other sources rather that originate their own content. Why does the ability to comment or not matter?

UPI, US News, AP, Reuters, NPR, AFP, Business Insider and several others display articles for all to read. I don't know if any of them allow comments since that portion is of no interest to me.

Search Engine DuckDuckGo displays results based on the topic you choose. There is a 'News' tab to select that limits the results to news sources:

new stimulus at DuckDuckGo

/pine · Jul 31, 2020

FYI...A good portion of news stories found on yahoo are generated in house...
They are easy to spot...they are full of misspelled words and typos...!

NorTracNY · Jul 31, 2020

/pine said:
FYI...A good portion of news stories found on yahoo are generated in house...
They are easy to spot...they are full of misspelled words and typos...!

Correct. Any lots of copy/paste from Twitter. Yahoo actually does have articles which have opposing views, but they are in the minority. Comments don't matter, but they helped fill in the blanks in many stories. Many times someone would post the complete story or reference what really was occurring. I'm certainly not going there for the social media aspect. I will look into the DuckDuckGo.

Complete Turf Care · Jul 31, 2020

I 'googled' one of the channels that I watch now and then, and found this web site that rates the bias of news sources. Least Biased - Media Bias/Fact Check

But, I don't really trust the web site that rates bias, to be unbiased..... I just don't really trust any news sources these days.

EddieWalker · Aug 1, 2020

Drudge Report posts news stories from all around the world that they think are important. They don't write the news, just provide the links. Since Trump won the election, they have become very anti Trump and their links lean that direction more then I care for, so I rarely go there anymore. Breitbart and RealClearPolitics is very pro Trump, and I like that they provide links to their sources, but a lot of their stories are more opinion then just the facts. The UK Telegraph has more in depth information on US politics than I've found in any US news sources.

A few years ago, PEW Research Center did a study on the big three cable news networks and fond that FOX was 50/50 in their coverage of both political parties. CNN was 5 to 1 in favor of the Democrat Party and MSNBC was 9 to 1 in favor of the Democrat party. I like FOX news over all the other main networks for both watching on TV, and reading online.

Tucker Carlson is easily the most outspoken, honest and informative news person currently on any channel.

Worse then lying about what has happened, like Nicholas Sandman, is ignoring what is happening, like the riots in Portland. If it doesn't fit the agenda, the media will ignore it or pull it, like they are doing over Hydroxychloroquine.

Diggin It · Aug 1, 2020

EddieWalker said:
is easily the most outspoken, honest and informative news person currently on any channel.

I think you misspelled offensive, biased and divisive.

oldballs · Aug 1, 2020

I like Newsmax.com and Newsmax TV...also (I) go to Drudge Report now and then (except for their tabloid crap). I don't have cable. The Wanderer newspaper provides some heavy reading. The local TV stations do their job, but are generally a waste of time. NPR radio is quite biased. I suppose that is due to their funding. Info Wars is entertaining sometimes. And the BBC, on radio, has lost its way in its liberal bias.
Cheers,
Mike