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You'll never find unbiased news at one site. Look at many sites, weight the different perspectives, see how their reports 'pan-out' over time. Basically its a question of sorting out all the different reports so as to develop a general picture amenable to your own bias. If you want to work on your bias, make it a little more sophisticated so it can handle a greater range of facts or you are dis-satisfied and want to develop a more or less different bias- read books. Being 'objective' is, of course, a fallacy and a delusion- the sign of a particularly rigid bias.
As an example of how to handle bias: I am readsing a book- an ethnographic study of preaching in Egyptian Mosques during the last decade. It is written by a professor at Notre Dame- a priest no less. Obviously, he has a bias. Rather than pretending he doesn't and building a false ediface of 'objectivity'( which would simply conceal his bias) he is quite open about his preferences and biases. Rather than hindering the readers' understanding, this actually helps, especially since he is responsible enough to include much of the preacher's sermons and circumstances in their own words- not swlectively revealing only those parts of their words which support his argument.This puts him on a more equal basis with the people he is studying and allows the reader to exercise his or her own judgement as to who is right.
So try and find books written by people who are open and honest about their biases.
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