Finding Good Accurate Information Online...

[Ace Rockolla]

Does anyone else find this painfully hard to do? I simply want to find sites that list information on various topics without excessive political spin, but finding such sites is damn near impossible to do. I can find tons of slanted sites, but nothing that objective usually. Can anyone recommend any good sources for information, for debate, research, and otherwise?

[QBMatt07]

free-essays.com usually has good articles, simply because there are reports from students who were in the same situtation as you. So most of their reports are opinion-free.:-D

[PeaceFroggy]

Whether you support the UN or not, their development reports and such are usually respected sources so I reccomend them.

[Big_D]

Spinsanity has become my primary resource for debate nowadays. It filters out the bullshit said by the right and the left.

http://www.spinsanity.org

[mediocre]

I was looking for information ABOUT abortion but all i could find was pro-life sites. I was looking up sodomy laws and all i could find was anti-gay sites. And so on for all other topics. Maybe google could have a "filter bullshit wesbites" options.

[Ace Rockolla]

Heh...I've run in to similar problems Chechnya. I more often than not get personal opinion sites that may cite facts but are hardly good sources of information. I perfer to my ingredients for dinner from the store fresh, if you know what I mean, without someone preparing the final dish for me.

Spinsanity is good to, but only for sorting through propaganda that's been put out. It doesn't usually offer pure facts on particular issues, it only corrects mistakes in the media they catch from politicians and pundits.

[Crazy_Don]

good infos hard to find!

[Big_D]

It's pretty hard to find the facts themselves without someone using them to slant their way. Maybe if you search you could look at an online encyclopedia as a source of information for different events and laws in order to find out more non-biased information about them. Look at encarta.msn.com (http://encarta.msn.com) for the one I use.

[Ace Rockolla]

Encyclopedias are good, but they don't do a good job at very detailed information related to current events. I will agree, especially for historical information, they're good.

[Jodie]

ah you should use the Boolean Connectors *wonders if you know i'm in a ict room*. Or you could use encarta...

[guitarplayer_101]

Originally posted by Crazy_Don
good infos hard to find!

Well put

[007]

I use somethingawful.com for all of my accurate information. :P

[Keith]

BBC puts out good quality, objective stuff. There are opinion articles, but they always have the person who wrote it at the top, while unbiased news has none.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/default.stm is me homepage.

[Ace Rockolla]

I do like the BBC as a source. They focus less on the frills and flashy graphics that American news uses. Comparing converage between the two regarding the War in Iraq is amazing. The BBC just lets the events speak for themselves more often than not where American news media tries to digest the information for you instead. I don't like my food half chewed like a baby bird...same applied to my news.

[Tyrael]

as stated by 007, for an accurate, unbiased, professional and completley truthfull source of information, www.somethingawful.com .....especially the bits about robots! and killer polliticians........you have been warned! ;)

[Ace Rockolla]

I'll add it to my Favorites list. :D :D

[Zaphod Beeblebrox the 0th]

Oh dear, the American media is in trouble if we're praising the BBC from that side of the Atlantic! :P I usually find C4 news or Euronews (auf Deutsch!) to be better.

Anyway, I don't usually have trouble finding statistics, depending on what I'm looking for. I suppose these are usually specific searches, so it's hard to recommend "sources" explicitly. But in general, aim for governmental, international or independent NGOs for research. While governments may be politicised, they are fairly well obliged to provide proper statistics.

[007]

The BBC seems to have a left bias but it still provides far more in depth coverage of foreign news than US networks do.

Tyrael, do you have stairs in your house? :P

[Zaphod Beeblebrox the 0th]

Originally posted by 007
The BBC seems to have a left bias but it still provides far more in depth coverage of foreign news than US networks do.
If you're used to the US networks, it's not surprising you would construe the BBC as left wing.

[007]

If you're used to the US networks, it's not surprising you would construe the BBC as left wing.Even the left wing British government doesn't like the BBC's bias.

US news does indeed come from an American perspective and is obviously biased, however, that doesn't change the BBC being biased either.