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"News sources are biased", and "everyone lives in a bubble", we all hear constantly (or perhaps that's just my bubble). But what would a non-biased news source look like?
Taking a strict middle-ground gives immediately ridiculous conclusions. Perhaps the UK's food banks suggest some problem, but not much of a problem? This seems less wrong than saying food banks don't suggest any problem, but still wrong. And should this neutral position exist on a per-country basis - so all the countries can have balanced, and unbiased, but totally different news stories - or planet-wide? ( - I can't even imagine what madness that would summon)
As the Romanians invaded their own parliament and punched their politicians in the face, I heard for the bazillionth time that Trump did a racism, and wondered why the news covered news which seemed less informative, and less interesting.
I don't have any good answers to the theory, but in practice - on the rare occasions I seek out 'news' (what does that word mean anyway?) I find Wikipedia's current events page seems to tick the boxes that I can't articulate.
Wikipedia's current events page
This is today's 'news' from a number of platforms:
This Youtube proxy does not adjust itself to the viewer. There is some algorithm, but it's a primitive, open-source thing, probably based on the most watched videos.
... so there's some Indian bloke on India Today, who might be interesting, but I don't speak the language.
Youtube promises an algorithm which tailors suggestions to your liking, but it doesn't seem to be working today.
So YouTube got one thing I'm familiar with out of the top three.
The UK-spot of the Guardian can at least promise something relevant to my country.
The first two might have been bundled into a single article, and I wouldn't mind the couple of quotes about 'what must happen' and 'what should happen' being removed - I don't need the Guardian telling me a random person's just-so statements.
I haven't read any of these before writing this article, so I can only hope Wikipedia doesn't fail me.
Not a mention of football, not a single whiff of Trump. International news of the highest interest, and without a European (+ex European settlements) bias, brand new wars, deaths, and massacres have opened up.
I still can't say what the rules are, but this does look like neutral news.
Anyway - I'm away to do some paperwork and stick on the LegalEagle Trump in the background.