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I do, broadly, agree with the sentiment. I pay for The Economist, The Financial Times, and the Australian Financial Review. Plus I read BBC and Thompson Routers regularly. If there's something particularly contentious I'll have a look at what the Guardian is saying about it to try and get an alternative perspective.

There's definitely a huge bias in almost all news sources. The Economist explicitly states their position on matters, The Financial Times and AFR are much more implicit. The BBC does pretty well on sticking to facts, but now they're appending their stories with opinion pieces from editors.

TR does do a very good job of simply fact reporting.



There's a really cool analysis/chart about the reliability of news sources here: http://www.adfontesmedia.com/the-chart-version-3-0-what-exac...


Why not link to the most recent version? It's currently at 4.0:

https://www.adfontesmedia.com/


I can't comment on the others, but I'll agree about The Economist. They are hardly without bias, but in general they wear it on their sleeve.




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