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What's the most reliable news source in your country?

1 points by marsa ↗ HN
i'd like to compile a list of good news sources from all around the world, but the world is too big. additionally, considering it's generally hard to gauge how reliable a source is if you're not part of the community that source serves, i thought it'd be best to crowdsource that sort of information here on HN.

preferably these sources would be in english, but those exclusively in local languages are perfectly acceptable (perhaps even more likely to be reliable than the ones shooting for international reach). despite the title, it doesn't need to be limited to strictly one source. if you're lucky enough to have a breadth of good sources at your disposal, just list them all.

ideally these would be as slantless and objective as possible, but left- and right-leaning publications are alright too as long as they're not blatanly putting out lies in order to serve whatever agenda they might have.

so... hit me with your recommendations please!

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auditor_3d
Your going to have hard time getting an answer to this due to bias and opinion.

However check out allsides.com it doesn't try to be the news source itself but it does let you know which direction the source leans and lets you compare two articles of the same subject on both sides.

marsa
yeah sadly.. though i don't mind bias; it's only natural to lean towards narratives that are more in line with one's worldview. and i'm quite happy to read well-researched and -sourced stories from various points of the political spectrum.

the idea was more to have a handy list of sources to consult when e.g. my local news covers some story of political intrigue in some far away part of the world. then i'd rather skip the middleman (AP / AFP / Reuters generally) and find out what their local media is saying.

either way, thank you for the allsides.com suggestion, i'll check it out!

chunk_waffle
The only news I really watch is NHK Newsline[0], which is outside my country. Mainly because my wife's family is from the region (not Japan) and NHK is in English and live every hour. So I can stay up to date with events in the pacific and I don't hear much about US politics.

Do I miss some stuff? Sure, but the alternative is not watching the news at all or watching it in a non-english language.

[0] https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/

marsa
thank you for your reply -- i suppose a lot of the stuff is worth missing anyway so it's not necessarily a bad thing
tuga
All news are propaganda.
marsa
yes to some extent, i'm not gonna dispute that!

but when you take 10 pieces of propaganda aboit some event from differently slanted sources and put them all together they'll all agree on some set of points -- let's call them facts -- and then it's easier to clearly see the line between what (f)actually went down and how it's being framed by various sources.

tamimio
None, all news outlets are biased to some degree, because we humans are biased, and even if these news outlets are not biased (impossible), they will be reporting news from biased people, and if the news AND the people they reporting them are not biased (impossible^2), no one will watch these news because the audience is biased and would love to hear something affirming their bias (confirmation bias)

So simply don’t listen to the news as an ultimate truth by any means, listen to this side, the other side, and a third side, and if interested in that topic do your research about it just like a research you would do when you buy your next home server, if you don’t have the time or the energy for that, don’t listen to the news, your life will continue going without it.