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Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by exclusiv on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:32PM (#23394373)
Where can you find credible, unbiased news coverage?

I've started watching foreign news coverage of the US. It seems better, but I can't yet tell how much; all news still love the sensational stuff.

Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by Pfhreak on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @02:39PM (#23394505)
There's no such thing as unbiased news coverage. Any news outlet has more stories to report than they have capacity to report. They must exhibit some bias to control for what they show. (Or, alternatively, I guess they could just randomly select news stories, but I don't think that'd be very compelling.)
Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by fastball on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:21PM (#23395877)
Or they could only write about things they have thoroughly researched, not try to write about every event that happens, many of which they are just regurgitating from another source without any additional fact-checking or analysis anyway.
Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by macintux on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @04:28PM (#23395928)
Research, and presenting context for the news item, always means interpretation, and that leads to accusation of bias.
Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by Pfhreak on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:29PM (#23396523)
Ok, how do you select the things to research without bias?
Re:Police attacks against journalists across the U.S. since ... by chasd00 on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @05:08PM (#23396333)
what i try to do is read the story from two sources that hate each other and try to take an average. Stay away from opinion and "analysis" pieces period.