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If those are your picks for credible sources, you might be less informed than you believe yourself to be. I don't think they're the _most_ biased, but they're certainly not the _least_ biased.

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Credibility is not about absence of bias, which is not a reasonable thing to expect from anyone. Credibility is about journalistic practices like checking sources and using editorial discretion about what level of certainty is needed to print something. Surely you have seen one of those charts that plots credibility vs politcal bias? e.g. https://adfontesmedia.com/static-mbc

The AP calling Abe names right after he was assassinated was stunning to me. AP news wire has traditionally been very neutral, given its wide syndication.

I saw this on /r/conservative today

What did they say?

They called him names?

They called him (in the assassination article) a "divisive arch-conservative" then revised it without issuing a correction or retraction.

How it comes up in search results: https://twitter.com/jeremyreporter/status/154545145897532211...

How it appears now: https://apnews.com/article/japan-shinzo-abe-shooting-22ec224...

Please share your list of least biased for comparison. This would be very helpful.

Thank you

I don't consider any single source or group of agreeing sources as credible in isolation. I've witnessed bad reporting from all major news sources. In cases where I wish to be well-informed, I'll seek out multiple sources, see if there's any disagreement, and try to figure out where and why the disagreement happens. When there is disagreement, I'll also examine the primary sources of the articles I've read. Do this enough, and you'll start to smell BS in most places.

OK. Great.

However you said _those_ weren't good, or least not unbiased enough. So what are the unbiased, or at least better about handling bias than those they posted.

It's not that you can't believe anything they report so much as relying on only those sources is going to give you a distorted and biased representation of ideas and events, same as somebody who only reads Fox News. I read articles from those publishers. I don't _only_ read articles from those publishers.

There is no such thing. That is the point. It's up to you to filter out the bias and figure out what happened.

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