What's the most neutral website news source to read?

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Negativity does not necessarily mean biased. In some cases negativity is appropriate. Was negative coverage of Watergate, Iran/Contra, or Clinton/Lewinsky biased?
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Indeed. An addendum to my previous post: even within the course of one presidency, coverage is usually more negative at some times than it is at others.
 
I prefer the Google News search engine. It will pull a conglomeration of news stories from various points of view and sources. I also like to read the Jerusalem Post, and other Israeli news sources. I will still read from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, but the New York Times has gone far, far left as of late. The New York Times has less bias it appears when reporting on overseas events, but steer clear of the political drama news stories in the U.S.
 
I trust EWTN and the National Catholic Registrar the most. Of course they are from a Catholic point of view but I have never known them to cover up or misrepresent the truth.

Other than that I use Fox, CNN, and BBC together to gain a pretty good picture. Of course Fox is right and CNN is left while BBC provides a good middle ground though sometimes I have seen it be left as well.
 
I used to use Al Jazeera but over the years I felt it was inappropriate to use a source that gets funding from the Qatari dictatorship. The same one that funds Hamas and abuses migrant workers from Nepal, India and the Philippines. And they are biased against Israel. I remember the most recent conflict, they labelled it ‘Gaza Under Attack’ as if Israel wasn’t being bombarded by Hamas rockets.
 
I am delighted to see some interest in neutrality. Can we all acknowledge that it is a challenge for each of us to set aside our own biases and to seek the truth EVEN WHEN it conflicts with our own beliefs? I don’t think many of us are really interested in truth. More often, our minds are made up and whatever supports our view is “neutral” and “true”.
 
Unless you’re talking about “the truth” being Jesus Christ as in “the way, the TRUTH, and the life” within a faith-based model, then I don’t think there is an absolute “truth” when it comes to human affairs. Three sides to every story, his, hers and the truth. We’ll probably never totally get at the truth.

The most we can do is seek to understand all sides of a story, which includes the news outlet’s possible reason for presenting it in a certain way. If we are going to be “instruments of The Lord’s peace” then we have to seek to “understand” and it’s hard to do that when media are putting bias on top of everything they announce.
 
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