NewsBoy Sherlock: Your Source for Unbiased News
Uncovering News Sources with Neutral Point of View. (NPOV) We are looking for feedback - including key ongoing issues for the United States and for the World!
Unbiased News Sources*
Associated Press (AP) http://www.ap.org/- the only nationally oriented news service based in the United States. "More people in more places get their news from the AP than from any other source. ...We abhor bias." Follow AP on FaceBook or Twitter.
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) http://www.pbs.org/ American non-profit public broadcasting television service. Roper polls have consistently placed the service as America's most trusted national institution, but PBS is not responsible for all programming carried on public TV stations.
NPR - formerly National Public Radio http://www.npr.org/ NPR produces and distributes news and cultural programming. NPR's flagships are two drive time news broadcasts, Morning Edition and the afternoon All Things Considered; among the popular radio programs in the country.
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ BBC is the largest and first broadcasting organization in the world, with global headquarters are located in London. New BBC News services that are also proving popular are mobile services to mobile phones and PDAs. Desktop news alerts, e-mail alerts, and digital TV alerts are also available.
Science Daily http://www.sciencedaily.com/ Today's top science news. The articles are selected from news releases submitted by universities and other research institutions.
Reference Desk www.refdesk.com "Fact checker for the Internet." Many reference tools listed from one portal.
Fact Check http://www.factcheck.org/ "Holding politicians accountable." a non-partisan, nonprofit website that describes itself as a "'consumer advocate" for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.
Politifact - http://politifact.com/ Home of the Truth-o-Meter. "awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2009 ... used probing reporters and the power of the Web to examine .. political claims... to enlighten voters."
Digg - http://digg.com/news/ a human powered news aggregator - Digg is a social news website. The site's cornerstone function consists of letting people vote stories up or down, called digging.
WikiNews - http://en.wikinews.org/ a free-content news source wiki and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. The site works through collaborative journalism. The neutral point of view policy espoused in Wikinews distinguishes it from other citizen journalism efforts such as Indymedia and OhmyNews.
MichiganTruthSquad - http://michigantruthsquad.com/ Identify questionable claims in the political advertisements you see or hear this year. (the more ads you submit the better your chance to win a prize!)
Key Issues and News Skills
Redistricting - definition from Wikipedia. Political boundaries and school districts are changing as a result of the decennial U.S. Census. (every 10 years). This will have wide reaching consequences and has influenced political maneuvering including gerrymandering, (see below.)
Apportionment - definition from Wikipedia allocating political power, recently been apportioned among constituencies based on population. This differs in the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives.
Gerrymandering - definition from Wikipedia a form of boundary redistricting in which electoral district are deliberately modified for electoral purposes, may be used to achieve desired electoral results for a particular party, or group. (class or race)
RSS - Cool YouTube video that explains RSS, the new fast way to go to your web sites to catch up with the news. Basically, you create a single web site that becomes your home for reading news. This 3 minute video explains how to use the free Google Reader. Step one, get the free Google Reader. Step two, subscribe to your own favorite news sites. Easy if you see this video. Will save you lots of time. definition from Wikipedia
Blogs - A blend of the term web log - usuall maintained by an individual with regular entries or commentary. Most are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments. Blog search engines now can search thousands of blogs for a particular subject. definition from Wikipedia
PodCasts - or non-streamed webcast- is a series of digital media files (either audio or video) that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication. Many news sources and commentary are available as podcasts. definition from Wikipedia
Mobile News - refers to both the delivery and creation of news using mobile devices. definition from WikipediaBecome a mobile journalist! Broadcast your live video to te world on: Qik.com and Flixwagon.com. Also broadcasting video from cell phones are iReport on CNN and You-Witness-News from Yahoo. You can now get news on your cell phone, but also share news to the world from your cell phone.
Unbiased information about
a few important individuals*
From Wikipedia
President Barack Obama - the first African American to hold the office, previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from 2005 until 2008. Obama is a Christian whose religious views developed in his adult life. Obama came to understand "the power of the African-American religious tradition to spur social change".
Sarah Palin - An American politician, author, speaker, and political news commentator who was the youngest person and the first woman elected Governor of Alaska. She served as governor from 2006 until she resigned in 2009.
Glenn Beck - an American conservative radio and television host, political commentator, author, and entrepreneur. As an author, Beck has had six New York Times-bestselling books, with five debuting at #1.
Jon Stewart - Critics say Stewart benefits from a double standard: he critiques other news shows from the safe, removed position of his "fake news" desk. In spite of its self-professed entertainment mandate, The Daily Show has been nominated for a number of news and journalism awards.
*Understand the news, understand your news source. For accurate news, NewsBoy recommends researching each topic you are interested in, and the news source itself in Wikipedia as an additional step. For your convenience, NewsBoy offers some direct links to comments from Wikipedia about news sources listed above: Associated Press (AP.org), FactCheck.org, PolitiFact.com, ScienceDaily.com, PBS, NPR, BBC, Digg, WikiNews
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