How to check your news sources:

[Willamena]

I avoid listening to FOX. That's all the check and balance I need.

 

[Augustus]

With all the talk of "Fake news" today it is useful to know how to do the research yourself to see if your sources are reliable or

Simple heuristic:

How frequently is the source updated?

If it is updated multiple times a day, it's not reliable. No need to waste more time on it.

 

[lewisnotmiller]

It is quite humorously ironic that considering yourself unbiased is itself a bias, and that thinking of yourself as being overwhelmingly rational is itself irrational.

You could have ended that with *drops mic*

 

[lewisnotmiller]

Simple heuristic:

How frequently is the source updated?

If it is updated multiple times a day, it's not reliable. No need to waste more time on it.

You seem to be suggesting Facebook isn't reliable. Tell me it isn't so!!!

 

[joe1776]

Wait...you know intelligent people who have 'unbiased minds'?
I'm calling BS.

When I referred to younger people, I was thinking of adolescents too young to have formed political biases, for example. I didn't make that clear.

Better they learn to recognise the bias in both themselves and sources.

Absolutely

 

[lewisnotmiller]

When I referred to younger people, I was thinking of adolescents too young to have formed political biases, for example. I didn't make that clear.

Absolutely

Fair enough.
I would just mention, I was a primary school teacher.
Many kids have biases politically at very young ages, simply due to the influences of those closest to them.