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I don't trust any of them entirely (including these two) but I use Reuters and AP for world news, they have commercial reasons to at least combat bias since they provide the news to the other orgs who then add their own ~~bias~~ commentary.

In reality I think the answer is much the same as it has always been, read the same thing from different sources and apply some critical thinking to it.

Unbiased media is simply not possible, you could 100% tell the entire story about whatever story you are telling and still be biased by the stories you don't run.

As for what we do about young people, education on media literacy in schools would help though whether already pressed schools end up been responsible for yet another thing is a good idea is going to vary from country to country but we should be preparing people for the society they are going to be living in better and that always comes back to education.



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