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Credibility Bias

Can you believe it?

A very old saying about believing anything was "Believe none of what you hear and half of what you see." Today discerning what is trustworhy and believeable is harder than ever.  There is more of everything and it is moving.changing faster than ever.  So how do we determine what we can trust?  There probalby is no one completely objective news source.  But here are some places that make a legitimate attempt at being neutral.

News Watchers

So is it possible to find opjective news sources.  Probably not,  so Lector Caveat. There are people and organizations that eith attempt to be neutral or tell us whether a source is neutral. Here are a few to assist you in this difficult task. The descriptions of the New Watch organization are for the most part from the sources themselves so as we said earlier  Caveat Lector.

  • MediaChannel  Site is being remodled.(7/19/2012)
  • Media Matters for America
  • Media Monitors Network
  • Media Reseach Center
  • Pew Research Center Reports
  • Project Censored