Which do you consider to be the least biased?

  • actionjbone@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    All of them are biased. The question is whether they report with awareness of their bias, or if they try to hide it by claiming to be unbiased.

    • razorcandy@discuss.tchncs.deOP
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      16 days ago

      This is true, and why I phrased the question in a relative way instead of asking for unbiased sources. I suppose a better question would have been about credibility and supporting evidence.

  • Ricky Rigatoni@retrolemmy.com
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    16 days ago

    Most of my news I end up getting here, tumblr, and discord shitposting channels.

    I have a very warped perception of current events I think.

  • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    16 days ago

    I do everything in my power to not know what is going on with current events. I do this to protect my sanity because nobody reports on a good thing that happened without first bombarding you with a thousand horrible things that happened.

    My personal life is already shit enough. I do not need to know about all of the shit going on outside of my personal life on top of it.

      • bizarroland@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Why do so many people expect me to develop a fetish for being ignored?

        Because that’s what every single therapist I have tried to set an appointment with has done to me in the last seven goddamn fucking years.

        Fuck therapists, they are shit, they are terrible, they do not deserve to exist, they are a plague on our society, and they should be done away with, like recreational lobotomies and having tobacco smoke blown up your ass.

        I say that because in my experience there are exactly two kinds of people that can actually get therapy.

        One: rich people who do not have problems and do not need therapists.

        Two: poor people who are so fucked they are absolutely destined to lead a miserable life and there’s nothing that can be done to help them.

        If you are not female, neither one of those categories apply to you.

        And this is not a hating on women thing. This is a personal frustration as a man that has attempted to make several appointments for therapy after using the online web apps, after using websites, after calling offices, after reaching out to groups that handle mass appointments for therapists, being sent hopeful, inspiring emails about how excited these companies are to work with me and to take my money and how grateful they are that I have good insurance that will make it very inexpensive out of pocket for me to get all the therapy I need for all of my mental health issues.

        Then, every single fucking goddamn therapist in the entire fucking state who sees my name presumably immediately takes the sheet of paper that my name was printed on and balls it up and shoves it up their ass and then goes to the toilet and shits it out.

        And then when that shit paper clogs the toilet, they plunge the toilet and get a sewer snake to grind that piece of paper coated in shit up until it’s a fine mist of particles that the plumbing system and the sewer systems can easily handle to feed the microbes in the sewer systems.

        So fuck the recommendation of going to a therapist.

        I probably would profit a lot from having one. I feel like a lot of my problems are workoutable with a friend and with guidance.

        But being as that for some reason I am cursed so that no person who has the training and qualifications necessary to take care of the problems in my life will ever actually be available to me as a human being to take advantage of their services, they can all go fucking die in a fire.

        Fuck them.

        • BaroqueInMind@piefed.socialEnglish
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          15 days ago

          Hell yes, brother. That’s fantastic aggression. I’m being genuine, not sarcastic.

          Now redirect that fierce emotion into continuing the relentless hunt for a good counselor that has an LCSW acronym by their name instead of useless chiropractors or random crystal hippies.

          If the barrier of scheduling a simple fucking appointment is difficult for you, I have bad news for you once you grow up into being a real adult.

    • BaroqueInMind@piefed.socialEnglish
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      16 days ago

      They used to provide that info for free, but decided to lock it behind a paywall, and also locked most everything they offer, all of it simply using ChatGPT, so fuck them and their enshittification.

        • BaroqueInMind@piefed.socialEnglish
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          15 days ago

          You seriously convinced machine learning AI summarizations of news articles are labor? Please kindly go fuck off with that sillyness.

          • ptu@sopuli.xyz
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            15 days ago

            You seriously convinced no human intervention is required to run that kind of site?

          • Tja@programming.dev
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            15 days ago

            Hosting, testing, development, ranking, electricity, bandwidth, payment processing, hr, payroll, sales…those are all AI as well? Must be nice living in a cartoon world.

            • BaroqueInMind@piefed.socialEnglish
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              15 days ago

              Am I going crazy or are you here arguing with me whether or not you are enjoying slobbering on that corporate Ground.News cock?

              • Tja@programming.dev
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                15 days ago

                I’m telling you to pay for the labor you use, be it ground news, fox news or news max, Trump sneakers, or the farmer down the road. If you use something, pay for it, if you don’t like it, don’t use it.

      • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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        16 days ago

        Quality news not centered around the US is hard to find and why I go to Al Jazeera and BBC. I need to find a good source for Latin American news in English. I can manage basic Spanish but not enough to truly understand everything I am reading.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    16 days ago

    IME, as many as you can handle and for the most part, trust. The Guardian is probably one of the best, but still shits out a huge turd like today’s Obama story. If it’s 80% pretty good, then I’ll keep checking them, the rest are left to others to comb through.

  • underreacting@literature.cafe
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    16 days ago

    I have a local newspaper for my municipality every morning.

    It mostly deals with local news that doesn’t reach the big news outlets. It’s slow to report world events (which I like to think is because they actually bother to confirm events before printing). It balances upsetting reports with feel-good and positive stories, and informs me of happenings (markets, small festivals, historical celebrations, crafting, classes and other events) locally that I would never hear about any other way.

  • twinnie@feddit.uk
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    15 days ago

    If I’m looking for news I just go to BBC. If I’m looking for news about a current event and want it quicker if less reliable I go to Sky News. I sometimes go to Fox News just to see what they’re talking about. I read other sites when I’m linked to them but if I’m just looking to see what’s happening in the world I use these.