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Comment by chunkyslink | Hacker News Reader

There is no difficulty.

The BBC news.bbc.co.uk and theguardian.co.uk

are both examples of well funded, non biased news sources.

The Guardian has taken a clear turn towards a clickbait approach in the last several years. Much of the newspaper is now as as sensationalist as a tabloid, although The Guardian has taken the opposite side of the culture wars from most of them as its niche.

I still find some quality reporting in The Guardian, but it too is clearly facing the same financial pressures as other newspapers.

I'd happily pay for membership of The Guardian if there was an option to block all the opinion pieces. The actual news part of their operation seems to make a good-faith effort to report impartially, but it's being pushed out by an increasing quantity of rabble-rousing opinion. I'd be more than willing to support the former, but I couldn't in good conscience support the latter.

I started reading The Guardian a few years ago because the site loaded so fast, and that in turn literally caused me to change my views on various issues. Perhaps food for thought for the other news sites.

I would argue that no news source is unbiased, at least I've yet to find a news source that has no bias whatsoever about any topic related to politics and society.

This is a ludicrous position. Apart from the fact that they have different editorial positions from each other. They cannot be both unbiased.

The BBC makes some effort to be unbiased - by giving air time based on e.g. based on success at the ballot, but inevitably reflects the metropolitan position of most of it's employees.

Both, especially TheGuardian have a liberal bias.

Ha, the comment [currently] right above you accuses them of giving disproportionate airtime to right wing politicians and viewpoints. Maybe that's an indicator that they're somewhat successful in their aim to be neutral.

Well, that comment is actually about BBC, not The Guardian. And they don't mention disproportionate airtime, but that it gives them airtime at all.

Neither the BBC nor The Guardian are non-biased they both have view points.

The Guardian are pretty open about their's, the BBC claim to be non-biased while giving people like Nigel Fromage, pro-brexit right-wingers, climate change deniers an easy ride.

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