Wizardspride wrote:CobraCommander wrote:How can anyone watch CNN or Foxs news!?!?! Both of these "news" channels are essentially mouth pieces for the Left or Right...neither are objective... its almost impossible to find out what the hell actually happen today from watching the news...which is sad. You almost gotta watch both...figure out what they both agree on and then form an opinion based on the overlapping data. honestly the FAKE NEWS is causing people to split into two ignorant and intolerant tribes!
CNN isn't traditionally considered "Left".
I mean it's left leaning compared to Fox news but that's not saying much.
Now what CNN IS is anti-Trump.
And with good reason imo.
CNN is GARBAGE. It is neither left nor right leaning. It's just crap news appealing to their mouth breathing least common denominator customers. If you want the "truth," go to BBC and Al-Jazeera English for non-American bias. BBC honestly doesn't care what happens in the US, and Al-Jazeera presents the worldwide anti-US view, which I find very educational.
Go to NPR for non-biased but left-leaning topic choice (let's interview this neo-Nazi and find out what motivated him to go march in Charlottesville). Go to, if memory serves, the National Review for non-biased but right-leaning topics (let's list ways to fix US health care that don't involve the public option). The Washington Post is non-biased, but their opinion page is strongly anti-Trump, and they're not too careful about making the distinction between reporting and editorializing.
All the big news purveyors are honest but presenting a biased set of facts, in the sense that they present facts that their consumer base is most interested in. But they are facts. If you want all the facts you have to visit all the sources.
Don't bother with Breitbart if you are having trouble discerning fact from fiction. I've been reading their site lately to see what their reaction is to Trump's bumbling, and what they've started doing is, in addition to sprinkling around blatantly fake news, they also have fact-based reporting, with just one lie per article buried inside. Breitbart's business is propaganda, which is less effective if it looks like propaganda, so they've made a significant effort to make it look like real news. There's similar "news" sources on the left, except instead of using lies they just use inflammatory, biased rhetoric, like the Huffington post. Among those, I'd say Vox is the most honest and least inflammatory, that I'm aware of.
It's hard to read news that contradicts your preconceived notions. It's why we're in the situation we're in now. If you want to train yourself to expose yourself to uncomfortable truths, start with Al-Jazeera. Or the Wall Street Journal opinion section.
I've been taught all my life to value service to the weak and powerless.
