What's an apolitical News Source?

Question

Everything I read these days is dark. The podcasts I listen to are dark. Maybe the world's dark but I'd rather come to that conclusion myself than have someone with a political view try to cajole me into it... and I suspect a reason why so many people are in a dark place emotionally is that the cajoling is profitable. I'm not looking for good news network nonsense, or to bury my head in the sand. I've always been a voracious reader of news and history. I read dozens of articles daily, left and right (Guardian/Fox, Vox/Commentary, BBC/France24, WaPo/Ny Post, etc). I sure try my best to distill some truth and fact from all this pathologically slanted garbage, but I see right through the appeals to emotion and fear on both sides. And with increasing frequency I find I can't pull any meaningful signal from the pre-crafted message.So long story short, where do you go to find something as simple as current, world-wide journalism, and unadulterated facts?

Normille · Accepted Answer

There isn't one. Every news source reflects the biases of its owners. It's just that some do it more subtly than others.My strategy is to pretty much avoid reading or listening to news altogether. And, if some big global event does happen, I'll read about it on Reuters, Russia Today, Al Jazeera and China Daily, assume they're all lying to me and try and form my own opinion based on the facts they all agree on --which, in a lot of cases, is not much more than the date and who was there.

themodelplumber · Answer

It sounds like it may be an appropriate time to work on becoming your own best filter? Since you're so well equipped to cut out the person in the middle, it seems like a natural fit.So maybe it'd help to start collecting data or direct derivatives of data. Build your own news-establishment framework.