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I'm not sure that I feel that some bias is all that bad... while I'd rather see more from the likes of The Guardian, BBC News and Al Jazeera. There's clearly polarization from the more U.S. based sources towards one direction or another.

I tend to lean pragmatically towards classic liberal / libertarian. I get miffed less often from right leaning sources than left. Left news often just feels so far to the left that the center is now right.

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Many Britishers consider The Guardian and BBC to be very biased, if not completely then atleast on certain topics.

Separating sponsored propoganda from legitimate news will only get harder as time goes on and media companies continue the buyout sprees that generally have the outcome of aligning narratives and interests.

Indeed. An interesting experiment would be to go on https://www.theguardian.com/uk and search for the word 'vest' or 'gilet'. Then go on Twitter and independently decide how newsworthy/baghdad-like Paris is.

I can understand that, and I guess it's relative to the US, is where I'm coming from. Reporting on US issues is at least generally more balanced than what I see from CNN or Fox domestically.

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