# What are the most fair and unbiased news websites? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 20, 2011, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567 "2011-11-20T18:44:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![deus\_ex\_taco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4af34b/32.png) [@deus\_ex\_taco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deus_ex_taco)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/21 "2013-01-15T15:42:57Z")
The truth is a hard thing to find these days so it’s probably wise to look at multiple sources. The Drudge Report is a good place to start. It’s a news aggregator which looks at all news agencies. The link titles are sometimes a little conservative-leaning, but drudge doesn’t write its own articles. USA today is slightly liberal. WSJ is slightly conservative. Fox is moderately right, CNN moderately left. MSNBC and Huffington Post are only worth looking at to see what the crazies are saying and Rush Limbaugh is way right but if you want to stay well informed, you’ll need to listen to him too. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/22 "2013-01-15T16:30:01Z")
> [@deus\_ex\_taco](#): > > Fox is moderately right For certain, very large values of “moderately”. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![drewtwo99](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d07c76/32.png) [@drewtwo99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewtwo99)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2013, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/23 "2013-01-15T17:29:22Z")
I too enjoy the Christian Science Monitor, and I’m a big fat atheist. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/24 "2013-02-16T22:46:09Z")
Christian Science Monitor, yes, but also the Wall Street Journal. I have an iPad subscription and it’s great, very convenient. Fair and balanced, too. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2013, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/25 "2013-02-16T23:31:02Z")
Give this American the BBC. At least they’re free from the American political influence. Oh yeah, and Fox in America. They claim to be Fair And Balanced. They couldn’t claim that if it weren’t true, right. ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/26 "2013-02-17T05:56:48Z")
In addition to the other recommendations, I’m told that Russia Today is good for international news. I’m a bit dubious of this, as it’s Russian state news–but it’s another perspective, at least. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/27 "2013-02-17T07:35:18Z")
What, no mention of the CBC? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/28 "2013-02-17T10:29:30Z")
> [@zoid](#): > > I have to say, I thought I’d HATE it, but it’s a reliable well written and presented news source. (The quote refers to _The Christian Science Monitor._) Yeah what’s up with that? The CSM has a well-earned reputation for solid, quality, unbiased reporting. If one didn’t know better, a paper published by a slightly nutty religious sect would seem to be a bunch of dogmatic foolishness. And yet it’s not. More power to them. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/29 "2013-02-17T10:32:36Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > What, no mention of the CBC? 🙂 The CBC is pretty good stuff too. ---
**Author:** ![crucible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@crucible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crucible)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/30 "2013-02-17T11:45:33Z")
> [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > The CBC is pretty good stuff too. If you live anywhere along the northern side of the country, you can surely pick up the news from Canada. All the way back to Nixon impeachment, I alternated between NPR and CBC…and like both. Of course, back then, ABC, NBC, CBS all had excellent news gathering organizations and did not ever seem, to me, to be leaning one way or t’other. I’ve never quite understood Canadian politics, West vs. East, Quebec vs. the rest, etc. but when they report on doings in the rest of the world, they seem to me to be absolutely unbiased and well informed. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/31 "2013-02-17T12:03:39Z")
[Counterpunch](http://www.counterpunch.org/) says it _Tells the Facts, Names the Names_. As a source for independent journalism they do not suck up to the major parties. Generally they are disdainful of the actions of both sides of politics. However they would be considered socialists and are thus probably too scary to read but they do provide another view of what is going on. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/32 "2013-02-17T12:20:03Z")
> [@crucible](#): > > If you live anywhere along the northern side of the country, you can surely pick up the news from Canada. All the way back to Nixon impeachment, I alternated between NPR and CBC…and like both. Of course, back then, ABC, NBC, CBS all had excellent news gathering organizations and did not ever seem, to me, to be leaning one way or t’other. > > I’ve never quite understood Canadian politics, West vs. East, Quebec vs. the rest, etc. but when they report on doings in the rest of the world, they seem to me to be absolutely unbiased and well informed. From a world news perspective the CBC isn’t too bad, but internally it’s slightly left-wing biased. Again, not too bad but noticeable. I think CTV is more balanced all around. ---
**Author:** ![mascaroni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/dc4da7/32.png) [@mascaroni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mascaroni)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/33 "2013-02-17T19:54:55Z")
Despite being regarded as a newspaper whose readership is typically thought of as soap dodging sandal wearers who who would equate the _Morning Star_ with _The Daily Mail_, and some columnists who put the “Bleeding Heart” into liberal, IMHO [The Guardian](http://www.guardian.co.uk/)is a fairly balanced source for news. ---
**Author:** ![C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecd19e/32.png) [@C.Montgomery\_Burns](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C.Montgomery_Burns)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/34 "2013-02-17T22:56:26Z")
Christian Science Monitor is only tentatively involved with the Christian Science sect, and has been that way for many years. The name and a religious column are contractual obligations, much like ABC Family being required to have family in the name and showing 700 Club. Christian Science Monitor has an excellent reputation for news and has won many awards for its reporting. They are a good example of what news reporting should be- very straightforward and not sensationalistic. ---
**Author:** ![2ManyTacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/2/3da27b/32.png) [@2ManyTacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2ManyTacos)\ **Post date:** [February 17, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/35 "2013-02-17T23:08:00Z")
If you’re in the US and looking for an unbiased source, the best bet IMO will be NPR. I watch a lot of MSNBC but I’m fully aware of its center-left leanings (I’m liberal as Hell but not even I agree with everything that Rachel Maddow or Lawrence O-Donnell has to say); still, MSNBC does have a decent amount of relatively “unbiased” programming in its early morning shows with stuff like\* Morning Joe\* or _The Daily Rundown_. Every now and then I’ll turn on Fox News for shits and giggles, but the garbage that spews out of the talking heads on that network is so far-right that I can only ever make it a few minutes before I have to change the channel. If you’re looking for unbiased network stuff, then I guess CNN is probably the closest you’ll find, but even I think that that channel is center-right. On the internet I generally alternate between Huffpo and Politico; of those, Politico is the least biased, but it still has a noticeable right-leaning slant to it. If you want a bit of everything, RealClearPolitics does a decent job of assembling a bunch of stuff from a variety of online sources within the political sphere. ---
**Author:** ![Slypork](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc29f/32.png) [@Slypork](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slypork)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2013, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/37 "2013-03-04T20:51:32Z")
I’d believe the reporting from [Weekly World News](http://weeklyworldnews.com/) before watching MSNBC. CSM is moderately neutral and trustworthy. But **romeo2die** is pretty much correct. Don’t trust the political news from the home teams. Go to the people on the outside for objective reporting. They generally are more clear headed. ---
**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2013, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/38 "2013-03-05T04:37:17Z")
> [@Evil\_Captor](#): > > There is no single unbiased source that I know of. YOu have to read several sources and know their biases and think about the stories to see if they make sense and are factual. Try NBC, CBS and ABC News for mainstream news, then MSNBC for center-left and Fox for far-right media (I really don’t know of any big media outlets that I would consider center-right, though CNN seems to be drifting that way. For left wing or as its called, progressive media, to balance out Fox News, try The Young Turks on Youtube (there are no real progressive outlets on cable or broadcast television, MSNBC proved that when they let Cenk Uygar go). There’s is Democracy Now! which can be accessed on a lot of media markets: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy\_Now](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Now) > [@don\_t\_ask](#): > > [Counterpunch](http://www.counterpunch.org/) says it _Tells the Facts, Names the Names_. As a source for independent journalism they do not suck up to the major parties. Generally they are disdainful of the actions of both sides of politics. However they would be considered socialists and are thus probably too scary to read but they do provide another view of what is going on. They’ve run articles from _Fidel Castro_ in the past. Just sayin’. I’d say the _Washington Post_ is the most centrist of the national newspapers and _Atlantic_ among the newsmagazines although the _New York Times_ isn’t usually too flaming liberal either, although the comment’s section is a different story. ---
**Author:** ![Tethered\_Kite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@Tethered\_Kite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tethered_Kite)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/41 "2013-07-20T17:50:25Z")
I don’t trust any single site. So my reading habits are pretty eclectic - Left and right Local, national and global Black, white and Hispanic Religious and non-religious _What_ happens is less important to me than people’s reactions to it. And that isn’t a factual issue. So once I can reasonably ascertain the facts of a news event I am more interested in different groups of people’s responses based on how it affects them. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [July 20, 2013, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/42 "2013-07-20T17:56:14Z")
Most of the mainstream US media (i.e., non cable news) work hard to avoid bias. Places like the AP, Yahoo News, NBC, ABC, & CBS all strive to be unbiased and accurate (though, of course, there are minor errors and biases everywhere). The myth that the mainstream media is biased is because the don’t always report what’s important to a small minority but no one else, or they report things facts that are embarrassing to your political viewpoint. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2013, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567/43 "2013-07-21T12:12:25Z")
[www.rt.com](http://www.rt.com) English-written Russian news site. They cover a lot of stuff US media outlets pass on, and it’s pretty much entirely unslanted facts, as they have no reason to be biased. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-the-most-fair-and-unbiased-news-websites/603567.md?page=3)