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I actually am willing to pay for journalism, but it becomes a constant research project to find out what source isn't on a biased agenda crusade. Any recommendations on pure journalism source I should check out?

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There has never been such a thing as "bias-free" journalism. We all have biases, and so do journalists and their editors.

If you're willing to pay for journalism, find a newspaper – any newspaper – and buy a subscription. I assume from your posts that you're in America, and politically right-of-centre. What about the Wall Street Journal? It broke the Theranos story and many others, and employs a raft of very good journalists doing important work.

The wsj does seem to not cater as much to opinion pieces or clickbait titles. I guess that's what I was asking. I get plenty of opinions and editorials for free these days, I don't want to pay for that even if I agree with them. I miss the outlets that seemed to focus on straight up news.

We had a local paper in my area, The Western Star, that ran for 206 years. It was the last source that I was really dedicated to, because I cared a lot more about local.

RIP Western Star https://ohiomemory.org/digital/collection/p16007coll84

Remember that for a paper like the WSJ or New York Times, opinions/editorials consume a tiny fraction of the budget: an editorial on Theranos might cost the newspaper $500, but the series of articles that eventually led to the downfall of the Theranos might easily cost 100 times that.

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