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Are there any genuinely unbiased news sources?

I notice I’m also guilty of the self-censorship of the news that I get irritated with everyone else for. I mean only consuming news that supports the points you already agree with...but I can see that the news sources I listen to also berate the self-censorship in the same way but only for ‘the other side’.
For example I’ve listened to generally anti-brexit standpoints because that’s what my view is, and they make the point that brexiteers only still believe in brexit actually working because they only read media that says so and ‘ignores the facts to generate anger and division’.
And I imagine if I listened more to brexiteer news then they’d say exactly the same thing about remainers - the only reason they haven’t seen how brilliant brexit will be is because they only listen to other remainers.
(I’m still maintaining that brexit was a bullshit idea from the start though but this isn’t what this post is about it’s just an example 😆)
My point is that both ‘sides’ are biased towards them and people on both sides won’t listen to the other side because they don’t want people to disagree with them.
Is there a news source that isn’t biased? I thought maybe the BBC might be closest, because they aren’t structured quite so much into trying to generate profit, when other news need to make people have an opinion in order to stay relevant. People on every side claim the BBC is biased against them and that’s probably because they don’t only report that person’s viewpoint. But even BBC is biased, it does take sides on things abroad like it did with Syria. And I’m guessing it’s still kind of biased towards Britain since it’s funded by Britain, but maybe that shouldn’t matter so much because I am british. Is it better to even have the facts? Idek anymore

No one knows how anything really is because every news source reports everything differently. Is brexit going to be a success? If it isn’t a success, brexit media will still say it is and people will still believe it is. If it is a success, remain media will still say it isn’t and people will believe it isn’t. How will we ever know whether it was a success or not? We can be a hundred times worse off or a hundred times better off and the same people who are celebrating now or crying now will still be celebrating or crying no matter how much better or worse they are.

The same goes for everything else. Trump for example, if you love trump he could murder someone and because you only see trump-supporting media you’d still think he was right to do it or tbh you’d probably be told he didn’t do it anyway and it’s all a ‘liberal lie’. If you hate trump, he could save the world and cure cancer but because you’d only see anti-trump media you will still think he’s made things worse, he hasn’t saved the world at all and it’s all just right wing propaganda. How do you know who’s right? Both sides report the facts, they aren’t allowed to lie, but the facts are always skewed to whichever direction you already believe. They’re just as biased as the other side’s. Who knows what trump’s doing? Who knows whether he’s doing it right? If you already think he’s right that’s all you’ll ever think, whatever he does. If you already think he’s wrong that’s all you’ll ever think, whatever he does.

This could be applied to everything, anything that is in the news anywhere. Is there anywhere that doesn’t do this, that doesn’t only support someone’s own view?

Idk this was just a ramble and really long. I don’t expect anyone to actually read it
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The BBC are bias, with regard to brexit they are remainers. I would suggest something like Reuters as about the best impartial news you can find.

Regards to Brexit, you really have to do your own research and as you say your likely to fall foul of inherent bias within yourself, that's hard to overcome on any subject.

I'm for leaving myself, for numerous reasons, the vast majority are not related to economic survival more freedom of rights of our citizens and other free nations of the world for long into the future. Freedoms lasting beyond my life. I'm not prepared to sell out those freedoms are you?
@SW-User what freedoms will we lose if we remained part of the EU? We’re losing freedom of movement by leaving, but I don’t understand what freedoms I don’t have because I'm in the EU.

But that’s besides the point for this post. What is it about the BBC that makes you think they’re biased towards remain, apart from the fact that they report facts that suggest leaving may not be entirely beneficial? Reporting facts is not bias. But in the same way, I’ve heard people say that the BBC is biased towards leave, so again my post’s point stands that people can’t accept something that reports both sides. Can you really be sure within yourself that you don’t only think the BBC is biased towards remain because you are not a remainer?

Reuters is quite good though I agree. They’re probably not perfect but I wish more news followed their example
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@AndrewtheAlu the BBC are right wing conservatives, always have been, always will be that way. If you don't see that, nothing I say will change your mind.
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