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SPC Kevin Ford thanks for the additional links. At one point in our lives we were told to check our sources. These tools provide that ability.

It is nice to know there are resources available to dig a little deeper in regards to identifying media sources that may be producing fake news or pushing a particular agenda. We live in a time when tools such as the ones you have spotlighted allow consumers to excercise diligence.

You seem to be an individual that excercises caution in determining which media outlets you select to keep up to date on current events. Is there a particular media outlet that you could suggest that reports "just the facts" and does not push any agenda, in a sense remaining neutral?

Mark Heick - That's a really hard one to answer with completely unbiased sources. Also if you ask most people here I've personally got a very particular and not too well hidden political slant.

If you want factual reporting and just understand that there is a left leaning slant, NPR.org and bbc.com are excellent. Similarly the Wall Street Journal is somewhat right leaning but they are also factual.

Most of the major sources like CNN, MSNBC, Fox News are biased one way or another, use clickbait headlines and are not always complete or factual. I take all of those with a grain of salt, particularly the headlines. CNN in particular has gotten much worse with the election of the current president.

It's a really hard thing to do because our initial reaction will always be to trust a story that agrees with what we want to believe and distrust one that doesn't. I suffer from that as much as anyone.

SPC Kevin Ford I agree there is a tendency for some, maybe even most to only trust a story that is in agreement with one's belief for a variety of reasons. I also agree that it is impossible to produce media that isn't without even the smallest of bias. Our mind can only speak from that which it is fed.

The only risk is that one does't just eat up what they have been served and then spit it out as if it was their own. I would challenge anyone one to read the otherside, try and see the other perspective, and dare themselves to be convinced. In my opinion, to not do this would be detrimental to civil discourse resulting in divisiveness and an inability to find compromise.

Mark Heick - I know a guy at work and we are on the opposite sides of just about every political issue. Neither of us really express our views on the company social media sites but we do speak a lot with each other. It can be useful to find someone who you can have that kind of trusted and reasonable conversation with.

It can be hard to have that kind of conversation on the internet because usually things spin off into poor directions as people can sometimes feel free to state things to people on the internet in a negative way that they would never do in person.