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Looking for Unbiased War News?

Posted by Cliff on Wednesday March 19, 2003 @06:54PM from the getting-the-info-before-the-applied-spin dept.

AlexisKai asks: "With the forecast for tomorrow being sunny with a 90% chance of airstrikes, the US government will be clamping down on unpatriotic stories and the rest will be self-censored by the major media anyway. Where are Slashdot readers planning to look for reliable, disinterested reports as events in Iraq unfold?"

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Re:Google by sniser2 · 2003-03-19 19:45 · Score: 0, Redundant

The headlines on the Google News homepage are selected entirely by a computer algorithm, based on many factors including how often and on what sites a story appears elsewhere on the web.

Which means: mainly "from the US and US allies." =P (the majority of english sites is still America and Britain based I'd guess)
No single source is "unbiased" by Psx29 · 2003-03-20 04:00 · Score: 0, Redundant

There will always be bias in these kinds of conflicts. The best you can do is read sites that are from each side of the extreme and extrapolate the facts to form your own opinion. Although if you don't have the patience or time to do that...bbc,cbc, and reuters are the closest I have seen to unbiased (In english)