Evaluation of news sources based on yesterday's thread

I wrote a post yesterday asking the good people of this sub what news sites they see as trustworthy.

Many were the answers. The first 100 comments that mentioned any media/s as well as an opinion about said media/s were used as data for this post.

The most popular answers stated that either a) "no media can be trusted" or b) "this subreddit is the best place to look for information".

One user, u/C01n_sh1LL, said this about crypto news media in general:

The more reputable ones are owned by big industry players and at least disclose that fact, so you have to view all of their articles through that lens and realize that they are most likely shilling for their owners' interests.

The others are all either aggregators running largely on automation or third world labor, stealing content for clicks, or are paid under the table by shadier players to shill their interests.

This gives some food for thought.

In the meantime, users had different things to say about different medias. I tried to create a colorful table with sorting and all to showcase what the results were.

Data from 100 comments

A bunch of different sources of crypto-related news were mentioned. By no means whatsoever do the data gathered from 100 comments justify making conclusions, but there were two trends that stood out:

A: CoinDesk and r/CryptoCurrency got most positive mentions

B: CoinTelegraph, Benzinga and r/CryptoCurrency got most negative mentions

A redditor with the name u/Status_Floor1746 gave a nuanced response which serves perfectly as an ending to this post:

From what I have learned in general be it crypto or the news overall is to try and read 3-4 different sources about the same thing. The stuff that overlaps tends to be pretty safe information but almost all writers have some bias or slant so mixing together crypto and traditional finance sources seems to provide me the best insight! It takes time but it is totally worth it

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Appearances:

Props to u/blade818 who is an editor and writer at CryptoSlate. He reached out and participated actively in the comment section. He wrote that the whole editorial team read the thread and took note of everyone's points there. I'm confident that the CryptoSlate has gained at least one new reader from this involvement.

Also props to u/brbinsky who checked in to say that he blogs about Cardano on the Medium.