# What do you think are the best and worst news sources out there?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 17, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-are-the-best-and-worst-news-sources-out-there/582207 "2011-05-17T15:30:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![spunkymuzicnote](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@spunkymuzicnote](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spunkymuzicnote)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-are-the-best-and-worst-news-sources-out-there/582207/1 "2011-05-17T15:30:11Z")

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Anything’s fair game. Newspapers, TV, even (gasp!) tabloids. What do you rely on and what do you avoid like the plague?

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**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-are-the-best-and-worst-news-sources-out-there/582207/2 "2011-05-17T16:10:18Z")

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Best: NY Times  
Worst: Fox News

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**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-are-the-best-and-worst-news-sources-out-there/582207/3 "2011-05-17T16:10:57Z")

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Best: NPR, NY Times  
Worst: Fox News

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-are-the-best-and-worst-news-sources-out-there/582207/4 "2011-05-17T16:43:57Z")

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Best: The Straight Dope

Worst: My mother’s gossip

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**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2011, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-think-are-the-best-and-worst-news-sources-out-there/582207/5 "2011-05-17T17:49:17Z")

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UK:

Best: BBC News (“required by its charter to be free from both political and commercial influence”), Guardian (left wing), Telegraph (right wing), Times (centre-right)

Worst: The Daily Express (right-wing tabloid obsessed with Madeleine McCann and Diana), The Daily Mail (very right wing tabloid obsessed with cancer, Gypsies, Muslims, immigrants and house prices)

Note: a “tabloid” in the UK merely refers to the newspaper size. A “red top” is a low-class tabloid, but is still a newspaper, and is still theoretically held to certain journalistic standards, but will skirt around the edges and tweak those standards as much as they possibly can. They don’t as a rule just make shit up, though it has been known to happen, and they certainly exaggerate and put words in people’s mouths all the time.