The Daily Mail actually has a good cricket coverage and amongst the trash they can report news well on occasions. There's ample sources of news and if a particular story seems biased in one source it's easy to google it and get some differing opinions.David wrote:^ It's getting a bit that way, isn't it? I saw something the other day that basically could have been a Daily Mail headline (something about the bloody royals, probably). Really need to wean myself off it, but there aren't too many other obvious options, unfortunately.
I tend to rely on Herald Sun, Aged and ABC online. All 3 can have a tendency to editorialise a little but it's easy to pick up and skate past and at least the Herald Sun doesn't try to disguise opinion articles by Rita and Bolta as News. Get the same news from all 3 means you get pretty much a balanced view.
My Dad always bought and read the Age and the Sun. I asked him why as a kid and he said that by reading both he had a better understanding of stuff than if he just read one.
The Guardian has just clearly identified what it saw as a gap in the market and they're playing to it shamelessly, following the lead of Fox News in the US but playing the opposite demographic, trying to monetise confirmation bias.