Where to go for secular news, from a Catholic source

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I find most Catholic news sites, such as Catholic News Agency, EWTN, National Catholic Register, etc. to focus more on news that is just relevant to the Church or politics if it involves pro-life issues. This is good and useful, but what I really would like to find is where I can get more secular news focus from a Catholic worldview. i.e., where can I go to read about the impeachment inquiry, 2020 Democratic candidates, etc. from a Catholic understanding and worldview? Any suggestions? Or are the previously mentioned news sources about as close as it gets? Thanks in advance.
 
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Good luck. I have been trying to find a source of news that just reports the facts and doesn’t given me their opinion. I don’t think there is one place you can go, but I do find APNews.com (Associated Press) to fit that better than most. I also like looking at the BBC website for somethings as you tend to find better information than in US based sites.
 
Not Catholic, sorry, but Christian Science Monitor (csmonitor.com) is the most ethical and neutral news source that I’ve been able to find. They haven’t sold out to partisan spin, knee-jerk reporting, or cheap sensationalism. There are opinion pieces, of course, but overall the reporting itself is pretty solid.
 
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I like Al Jazeera for global news but that’s not Christian or religiously affiliated
 
I like allsides because they show three news reports from liberal, conservative and balanced sources and they rate how far they lean to each side. It isn’t perfect but it’s useful.
 
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i like Fox News. There are a lot of Catholic anchors (Baier, Hannity, Ingraham, etc.) and the news there is Catholic-friendly (Christian friendly)
i don’t think they cover as many topics as they should but they do a good job w/ the ones they cover. I have this one issue in mind that never gets covered but you know how politics and other considerations come into play… sigh… maybe i should write t hem
 
I read the daily wire, dailywire.com.

They are a conservstive news source, and thier opinion pieces are conservative. But they also cover lots of political news, and other ‘human interest’ type stories with good reporting and they always link to thier sources, so you can easily evaluate for yourself how credible the story is.
 
I don’t really know of anything besides the sources you mentioned. But adFontes media maintains and revises a chart that they call the “media bias chart.” I think it’s very useful and worth taking a look at. Generally speaking, I think it’s accurate. (Please Note: This uploaded content is no longer available.)
 
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fedup19 said:
i like Fox News.
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If you use the website instead of broadcast, fox certainly has the broadest coverage with less opinion in the news articles. Also, the opinion pieces are usually labeled as such.

I have no familiarity with their, or any other, broadcast news; the inability to turn the page or go to the next tab in my browser stops me from watching other than election returns every other year (at which time I’ve been known to run two televisions in the room, each with picture in picture to follow four channels at once! 😱:roll_eyes:

the realclear sites (realclearpolitics.com, etc.) tend to gather articles from far left to far right . . .
 
thanks for the response. I don’t really get the thing about your browser stopping you from watching but… I don’t u/stand a lot of the new technology… not one to keep up on it
 
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Both of these are considered “Least Biased” by https://mediabiasfactcheck.com, so that site seems to check out quite well so far.
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Using Michael Mann to determine which sites are “pseudo-science” is akin to letting the wolf provide security to the chicken coop.
Climatologist Michael E. Mann has called WUWT the leading climate change denial blog.
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To say nothing of the fact that only climate change sites that attacked “denialism” are considered “Pro-Science.” The science, along with the politics, is settled, I guess.

A site that claims to determine the level of bias of other sites should itself be analyzed for its own level of bias.

I’ll do my own fact-checking, thank you very much.
 
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I beg to differ to be quite honest, that chart is pretty misleading
 
I have left-leaning friends who rely on CNN, Huffpost and Buzzfeed and routinely post stories from those sites as “news” on FB, etc.
And I have right-leaning friends who swear by Fox News and Drudge Report.
This chart places all of those sources as “selective or incomplete story; incomplete analysis / unfair interpretation of the news.”

There is actual news from all these sources, but there’s also no denying the left and right slants of each.
 
I mean there are sides that lean. Its the top middle that baffles me. New York Times factual? Mm maybe my own opinions, but that chart is biased in itself. We all got our own go to news. I go to the dailywire, which is factual but according to that chart its not. So idk imo ;=;
 
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thanks for the response. I don’t really get the thing about your browser stopping you from watching but… I don’t u/stand a lot of the new technology… not one to keep up on it
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It’s not the browser, but my head and stomach that stop me from watching anything. With a paper I can turn the page, and with a web browser I can close the tab, in either case going on immediately to the next story. Broadcast news, however, is to painful for me to watch.
 
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