I don’t know if I should change the title to ‘does unbiased media exist?’

I just found out a Washington Post cartoonist quit after a Bezos satire she draw was rejected.

I was until today a reader of said newspaper, but after this kind of censorship I don’t know if I should keep reading it.

Note that I’m not looking for media sources that fabricate outrage either for the left or for the right or news sources whose business model is to editorialize titles to work people up. I’m just looking for unbiased media sources.

Maybe this was a stupid question: everyone is biased, or am I wrong?

  • sith@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    3 days ago

    I don’t think unbiased media exist. But some are at least less biased. And you want some bias towards scientific reasoning, honesty and meritocracy. Otherwise you introduce too much noise (which is one reason why being absolute about free speech leads to less free speech, and also the reason electronic warfare is something prioritized by politically weak and/or military weak state actors). Less noise usually correlate with what people perceive as left leaning or liberal bias (in the western political landscape of 2025). Might be very related to this. Also, I think it’s OK with biased media as long as one is open and explicit about it.

    In Sweden I use Omni which is a commercial news aggregator, which I find relatively unbiased or balanced. Public service is pretty good as well.

    For American news, I usually go for NPR first. Don’t know if they are super unbiased, but at least they are not full on crazy.

    I’ve tried Ground News, but I feel it’s a bit too focused on politics of the English speaking sphere.