so i want to know whats going on in the world, and i dont feel like being insulted by what the mainstream press tells me is news. where do you get your news?

i find large news corporations has a whole lot of spin on it, but i sometimes find smaller news companies to either not go into detail, or have some vendetta.

i prefer to just look at a bunch of news sources that contrast each other and make your own opinion and looking out what kind of bias these companies have

also, i find that some foreign news channels (which are in english) are good at explaining stuff from your own country, though this only applies to the USA, due to the worldwide impacts of its actions, since a foreign news channel wont bother giving me australian news, unless its something big

Multiple sources is the only way to really receive all the news. Also like the reader above said, try looking to foreign sources too if you live in the US. The BBC and Al Jazeera can be great. It took me going to news sources outside of my country to really see what was happening in Iraq, and I am not talking about crazy conspiracies. It took turning to Al Jazeera for me to see what US bombs were doing to Iraq and how our own soldiers were truly faring.

i prefer to just look at a bunch of news sources that contrast each other and make your own opinion and looking out what kind of bias these companies have

Exactly. To name a few: FT for news and opinion (Lex), BBC for news, WSJ for opinion.

Whatever issues the "alternative" media tries to address, I'm not sure it's bias anymore, they are invariably less objective than their mainstream counterparts (AlterNet...)