The Guardian went from a liberal answer to the WSJ to some weird cringe far left publication about a decade ago. Most of the people there worth reading and thinking about left for The Intercept or bailed to do their own thing. I still like The Economist, and the reporting on the WSJ is still good as long as you stay off the opinion pages (Thanks NewsCorp). Lately I've been hitting up the raw Reuter's feed and then going to the "main" news sites to see if there is more in-depth fact checking and writing. A perfect example of a turn into that "WTF are you doing" zone is the AV Club. It went from a pop culture review site to almost a religious fanatic church bulletin. They doubled down during gamergate three years ago and now seem to be pulling back into raw reviews from what I see, but yea. It is like they went full Buzzfeed for a while and now that their traffic is plunging they forgot what made them popular. Reporters don't report news any more it seems. They report opinions. Or maybe we are old enough that we see it more than when we were younger, fuck if I know. This is why I fucking HATE NPR. And on paper I should be an NPR fan. But EVERY. FUCKING. STORY. they make into this weird personal experience in some odd attempt to put a single human face on every story they report on. I just can't do it and the last time I had NPR on, about a month ago, it seems to be worse. I need data, not feelings, to make up my mind about things and there are fewer places out there that offer what I need. Even the BBC is taking a hard turn toward opinion/emotional journalism.
Honestly? I kind of like that NPR tries to humanize things a little bit. That said, there are times where I think the facts should really speak for themselves. I use both sites cause neither one use an ass-ton of third party services to distribute their content and I just accept the fact that both are pretty liberal. While I think that might influence my world view a bit, I think also knowing that they're liberal helps me take their words with a grain of salt. That said, you go to some websites and they drop a half dozen cookies from a ton of random domains and something about that just bugs the crap out of me. Do these guys really need platforms like Disqus to make their sites work? Maybe. But it makes them annoying too.
There is no such thing as an objective reporter because there is no such thing as an objective human being. That said, a biased source still has value. If MSNBC says something, you know that they are basically a mouthpiece for the DNC and have a left slant. If FOX says something you know that they are the mouthpiece for the Republican Party and can react accordingly. Fuck Disqus. I have it blocked at the router DNS level at home and at work. But at least it is not facebook.