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To: Samogon

No such beast.

I find small local news sites to be a bit less biased but only where it concerns local stories w/no “big issue” implications.

I tend to research issues that come up.

E.g., if a story comes up about a pending statute, I go to the gov legislature site to see the actual statute and committee hearing minutes on it if available. The press invariably gets something wrong about it or take part of it out of context.

In a nutshell, you have to do the job the press is not, if you want something “reliable”. If you want it done right, do it yourself.

But you’re going to have to get familiar w/actual terminology used, legal or otherwise, on those technical data sources.

Good luck.


15 posted on 08/16/2017 7:17:41 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: fruser1

That is sad. I really liked Drudge as big consolidated news source. Clever descriptive headers, which read like news by themselves. Scanning the page was enough to keep you abreast with current happenings. I wish he remained a true unbiased reporter as he used to be.


19 posted on 08/16/2017 7:28:42 AM PDT by Samogon (Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato)
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To: fruser1
E.g., if a story comes up about a pending statute, I go to the gov legislature site to see the actual statute and committee hearing minutes on it if available.

Good point, but that doesn't always work.

I remember trying to look up the actual Affordable Health Care Act (Obamacare) legislation.

Several thousand pages!

Pelosi said, "We have to pass it to know what's in it."

That is so freaking dysfunctional but the Left never saw that statement as anything by normal.

31 posted on 08/16/2017 9:55:26 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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