Ask HN: Where do you go to read or watch neutral and unbiased news?

Re:Ask HN: Where do you go to read or watch neutral and unbi... by alansmitheebk on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:06PM (#12704027)

I'm talking about the kind of Republicans that rail against "The Mainstream Media", which basically means anything that isn't Fox News, Brietbart, Rush Limbaugh, etc. These people literally think that all news is "liberal lies" unless it's coming from a rightwing source.

Am I talking about most Republicans? That I don't know. I haven't conducted a poll to see how many Republicans have that mentality. Certainly anyone who supports trump or watches Fox News on a regular basis has that mentality --and that's a lot of people!

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you go to read or watch neutral and unbi... by ArkyBeagle on Thursday October 13, 2016 @05:55PM (#12704381)

But that's just the galloping narcissism of our times.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you go to read or watch neutral and unbi... by alansmitheebk on Friday October 14, 2016 @09:55AM (#12708061)

Well, it's quite significant. How can we even talk about which news is objective when their is a large portion of the US population that consider rightwing pundits to be "the real news" and everything else to be lies? This is a major problem. We are living in a reality distortion field where George W. Bush has never been criticized for failing to protect us from 9/11 but people want to "lock her up!" [Hillary Clinton] because an embassy in Benghazi was attacked?

I realize I'm going off topic here but sooner or later we have to confront this issue. Reality is not subjective. If our society can't learn how to parse reality we will never be able to unfuck ourselves.

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Re:Ask HN: Where do you go to read or watch neutral and unbi... by ArkyBeagle on Friday October 14, 2016 @10:45AM (#12708391)

https://xkcd.com/258/

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