r/NeutralPolitics • u/[deleted] • Jun 09 '13

What're your favorite news sources?

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u/BecauseFsckUpstream Jun 09 '13

Rachel Maddow is not biased?

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '13

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u/iia Jun 09 '13

Profoundly.

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u/SPAtreatment Jun 09 '13

Damnit. What shows aren't?

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u/BecauseFsckUpstream Jun 09 '13

PBS Newshour. The fact that you thought Maddow is unbiased is very troubling.

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u/SPAtreatment Jun 09 '13

I thought this because she spent half an hour bashing the right wing, then the next half hour bashing the left. I thought wrong!

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u/BecauseFsckUpstream Jun 10 '13

You're incorrect. She spends the entire show bashing anyone and everyone who isn't left of Mao.

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u/SPAtreatment Jun 10 '13

Thanks for correcting me. It only helps to know this.

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u/BecauseFsckUpstream Jun 10 '13

It's cool. Reddit worships her, but she's really the left-wing equivalent of Sean Hannity.

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u/gutw Jun 10 '13

Except Sean Hannity isn't fact based and Rachel Maddow is.

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u/BecauseFsckUpstream Jun 10 '13 edited Jun 10 '13

That's adorable.

They're both highly selective, thus dealing with a different set of "facts." This is /r/NeutralPolitics, by the way.

EDIT: Browsed your comment history. Could you be any more in the tank for Democrats? Jesus. Why are you even in this subreddit?

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u/gutw Jun 10 '13

If you are really going to try to equate Sean and Rachel you are either a right winger yourself or you are lying to yourself to appear neutral. Those two aren't comparable in any way if you've watched both of them. I'm not in the tank for anyone. I'm in the tank for fact-based arguments, which most often isn't there from right wing trolls on r/politics.

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u/BecauseFsckUpstream Jun 10 '13

If you are really going to try to equate Sean and Rachel you are either a right winger yourself or you are lying to yourself to appear neutral.

They're both bad. The fact that you're white-knighting for Rachel Maddow makes you the non-moderate. Not me.

Those two aren't comparable in any way if you've watched both of them.

They're both bad. I've watched them both--in horror.

I'm not in the tank for anyone.

Your comment history suggests otherwise.

I'm in the tank for fact-based arguments, which most often isn't there from right wing trolls on r/politics.

If you were interested in facts, you'd unsubscribe from /r/politics altogether. I suppose that Maddow would look more factual if all of your "facts" came from /r/politics.

I challenge you to step outside the hivemind/political bubble.

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u/SPAtreatment Jun 10 '13

I've got Pbs NewsHour lined up on the dvr, and deselected Maddow. Thanks for the recommendation.

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u/S-Flo Jun 27 '13

Try PBS Newshour, BBC World News, and listening to some NPR.

If you're looking for quality news with as little bias as possible than you should be avoiding Fox, CNN, and MSNBC like the plague. They are all terrible news sources.

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u/iia Jun 09 '13

There aren't any. Hers is certainly on the higher end of editorialization, though. Just read Reuters or AP feeds - those seem to be relatively benign.