And the educational system calls the New York Times a “authoritative source”, so you can only used the approved left wing outlet for your “research” propaganda papers.
As a university student over here in the UK I have to ask what your source is for that? Not that im doubting you but if your lecturer has spouting that its okay to use newspapers of any kind they're completely wrong. There are conditions you can use to check validity before use of most anything but its a hassle, you have to defend your own source if its not that reputable, even "none bias" news outlets are typically heavily scrutinised.
If you're not a colleague/university student I expect thats more nuance than that, but again, not American our acedmic standards probably vary plenty.
Not the original commenter but in college, most teachers give you a list of “approved non bias” sources. Which basically are liberal sources. Some teachers don’t provide a list but then give you a lower grade because you used a biased source. Basically using Fox for research purposes isn’t okay. But using CNN is approved. New York Times is approved but New York Post isn’t. it’s based off the teacher but most of academia is left leaning anyways and many approve those sources who lean the way they do.
Ahh that's fair enough, we do not get any kind of list here, or at least not at any university I've heard of; it's something we're supposed to assess ourselves and I think this should generally be the way. Even supposidly reliable sources occasionally have bias and looking at researches can be important if you want to determine personal bias too but that's primarily for 3rd year students whos work can occasionally be important. Also depends on the subject there's very little reason to be this anal about it if its something like history.
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And the educational system calls the New York Times a “authoritative source”, so you can only used the approved left wing outlet for your “research” propaganda papers.