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Oh goodness, if wiki is news, then it's the most biased and easily editable news outside of Winston Smith and the Ministry of Truth.

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> the most biased

Is it biased because it doesn't reflect your opinion or are the facts also biased?

Really? News coverage on Wikipedia is a lot more reliable than (say) Fox News. Breaking news events in particular get a lot of eyeballs and while you obviously can't take everything as gospel, genuinely wrong info is usually purged pretty quickly.

Most news outlets get their news either from press releases or press agencies. It means you effectively get the same talking points across different outlets.

Fox is designed to promote Republican viewpoints and MSNBC to promote Democrat ones. They present little outside them and are usually telling the same small selection of stories from different angles.

Genuine info inconvenient to the far-left editors is usually purged pretty quickly.

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