# What is the one source you would trust for news? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 8, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522 "2005-07-08T00:07:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/21 "2005-07-08T17:44:37Z")
If I had to pick one _site_, I’d go with My Page on [myway.com](http://www.myway.com/). But for one _source_, BBC – though I know I’d wind up two-timing with CNN every now and then. > [@TheLoadedDog](#): > > The closest I can get to an answer to the OP would be “the internet”. I can scan many news sites one after the other within minutes. I get a basic opinion of what has happened (flowing through the usual mental bullshit filters), and then I can go through a second time for a deeper reading of the articles. Exactly. I look at My Page, the _Washington Post_, and the _NY Times_ online every day; several times a week I add CNN, BBC, and the _Baltimore Sun_ online to the mix. Less frequently, I look at _Le Monde_ and _Nidderdale Today_ online. ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/22 "2005-07-08T17:51:08Z")
> [@Harborwolf](#): > > BBC news service is a close second only because I still don’t understand how cricket is scored. 😕 [Cricket](http://leftfieldsports.com/archives/story01_07.htm) is pretty straightforward. ---
**Author:** ![EnderWay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d26b3c/32.png) [@EnderWay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EnderWay)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/23 "2005-07-08T19:52:02Z")
> [@kanicbird](#): > > Emergency Broadcast System. Ha, good one! Yea, I was going to say none. Any official news system has too much politics and money intrests not to be biased. And unoffical news like internet blogs can just be wrong or lies! I use the method - filter many news sources and see if you can distinguish the real news. On EMS … funny … in “War of the Worlds” When Tom Cruise is driving in the car, and the EMS test came on! That really cracked me up! ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/24 "2005-07-08T19:57:06Z")
I can’t trust 1 source for News, not in me to do so. SOurces I trust the most: BBCi & NY Times. Sources I trust the Least Cable News especially Fox & NY Post I used to have absolute faith in Walter Cronkite but I was still a kid. I think the switch to Dan Rather(not) blew out my trust. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/25 "2005-07-08T21:39:51Z")
For factual reporting of an event, I go to the [BBC](http://news.bbc.co.uk), but beyond that I’ll make the BBC my primary source but also reference other sites - Fox, The Telegraph, CNN, Sky, etc. ---
**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:** [July 8, 2005, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/26 "2005-07-08T22:00:05Z")
BBC World News, followed very closely by The Straight Dope. It seems some people here will get pissed off about something and start a thread discussing it before it ever hits the airwaves. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kellner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c2a13f/32.png) [@kellner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kellner)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/27 "2005-07-08T22:14:23Z")
Clearly “Der Spiegel”, a weekly magazine, or the related website [Spiegel Online](http://www.spiegel.de/) ---
**Author:** ![Landshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/77aa72/32.png) [@Landshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Landshark)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/28 "2005-07-09T00:58:13Z")
I’ll echo the [Reuters news site](http://today.reuters.com/news/default.aspx). It has a [page](http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsRoom.aspx), where, among other things, under the heading of “The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly” they display reader comments on various stories along with notes by editors. This includes acknowledgements of errors; that especially gets my respect. ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/29 "2005-07-09T01:23:10Z")
> [@Gangster Octopus](#): > > [Cricket](http://leftfieldsports.com/archives/story01_07.htm) is pretty straightforward. Hockey is straight forward. That’s why I play it. Puck past goalie and into net =1 goal. Your cite made my eyes bleed. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/30 "2005-07-09T01:32:08Z")
I can’t get the cricket link to work. ☹ I trust NPR, BBC and here. Lots of times I will come here and link to the sites (and cites, haw!) that are posted–it helps me get a balanced view of things. Don’t watch network news at all, don’t trust Fox or CNN. I read the Chicago Tribune sometimes with tongue in cheek and sometimes with a jaundiced eye–but I do like a newspaper for coverage. Also read The New Yorker for indepth stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/31 "2005-07-09T01:32:35Z")
Am I the only outcast here that reads the **National Enquirer** & the wonderful **Weekly World News** only when I am in a check out line, TYVM and know they this stuff is not only fairly mostly accurate as any other news agency, but you get the bonus of the Love Lorn Classified with men in prison lookin’ fer love in all the wrong places. and **BatBoy!**. Clearly, WWN, is not afraid to report when the Ghost of the Titanic docks in NYC or that Hussein likes S&M and Hitler was a Pouf!. They gots balls. I want to work for them! ok, back in reality, I have to say that Fark is my first choice for on line good stuff and NPR. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/32 "2005-07-09T11:19:45Z")
CBS News is my most trusted source. Though not as much since Dan Rather left. ---
**Author:** ![Large\_Marge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/50afbb/32.png) [@Large\_Marge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Large_Marge)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/33 "2005-07-09T11:39:58Z")
I don’t trust any of them; even my trusty New York Times has let me down. If I had to choose one, it would be the BBC. ---
**Author:** ![gardentraveler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gardentraveler/32/3576_2.png) [@gardentraveler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gardentraveler)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/34 "2005-07-09T12:09:50Z")
Is it cheating to say I trust my local public radio station WCBE the most? A combination of NPR news, Marketplace, and BBC are my minimum (when I’m in really-busy mode, I’ll only catch snatches of each). When I have more time or interest in a specific news story, I browse the net, starting with a combination of Google news and the SDMB (if it’s a really big story or a quirky news story). And the local newspaper. And the New York Times Web site. And several German-language news sites. And there’s probably more. I’d find it very difficult to deal with a single news source (but it would probably be NPR). Can’t deal with anything that includes commercials. GT ---
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2005, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/35 "2005-07-09T12:14:11Z")
Wire services. Yahoo, MSN, Bloomberg, etc all run stories from the various wire services of which Reuters is probably the best known and perhaps most reliable. I never read newspapers or watch the talking heads - all they do is make stuff up around a wire service story. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/36 "2005-07-10T01:02:38Z")
> [@China Guy](#): > > Wire services. Yahoo, MSN, Bloomberg, etc all run stories from the various wire services of which Reuters is probably the best known and perhaps most reliable. I never read newspapers or watch the talking heads - all they do is make stuff up around a wire service story. Agreed. that and BBC. ---
**Author:** ![CBCD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9fc348/32.png) [@CBCD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CBCD)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/37 "2005-07-10T01:06:02Z")
I subscribe to two magizines that arrive consistently in the mail every Saturday. From these two magazines I form my Weltanschaung: \*\*The Economist, and Entertainment Weekly. \*\* ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/38 "2005-07-10T01:30:49Z")
Les Nessman. Especially when it comes to porcine news. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/39 "2005-07-10T14:51:16Z")
> [@JThunder](#): > > Les Nessman. Especially when it comes to porcine news. And his pronunciation of Chi-chi Rod-ru-geez. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![drewbert](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drewbert/32/15890_2.png) [@drewbert](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drewbert)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2005, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522/40 "2005-07-10T15:19:05Z")
> [@Shirley Ujest](#): > > And his pronunciation of Chi-chi Rod-ru-geez. 😃 And Les will always be sure to let us know when the godless Tornadoes are on the way. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-one-source-you-would-trust-for-news/311522.md?page=3)