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Duchess routinely cites Wikipedia.
When she's in a particular rush...she Copies and Pastes.

If you live by the distortion... be prepared...

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Originally posted by @handyandy
New York Times
Washington Post
Boston Globe
Associated Press
Reuters
The Guardian
Atlantic (magazine)
NBC
CBS
I would add The Economist, NPR, and the PBS News Hour.

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Are you recommending Wikipedia as a news source?

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One best? Not likely. Compare.

I regularly peruse:

BBC
AP
Reuters
Der Speigel

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and The Economist

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Originally posted by @vivify
What is the best, most impartial and factually accurate news source?

read them all...decide for yourself.

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I think there is literally no possibility for something to be "unbiased" or objective because it's epistemology necessitates bias.

Indeed, this obsession with determining that which is "not biased" is baloney that actually hinders dialog by trying to grant to everyone some illusion of being objectively correct.

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Originally posted by @vivify
What is the best, most impartial and factually accurate news source?

The BBC is good, but has been severely criticized for pro-Israeli bias. They was a massive protest a few years ago resulting in police being needed to escort BBC employees outside of it's headquarters. The BBC soon after, released a series of segments aimed at addressing their bias, an ...[text shortened]... es, so please, no rants about Fox News or CNN. Let's just focus on worthy news sources, please.
The BBC News is biased in favor of wars just like many news sources in the USA.
Democracy Now! is not a bad source of news. They have no pro-Israel bias and tend to be anti war. I suppose you could say they are biased in the opposite way as the BBC News and might be a good balance if you were to watch both.
I think this forum is a decent way to get diverse views on the news. Corrections are posted by others to keep things more honest overall. If I make a mistake, someone like Duchess will probably catch it and set it straight.

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