Salt Lake City wildfire prompts mandatory evacuations
www.voanews.com
The fire department ordered a mandatory evacuation for an area of 40 homes on Sandhurst Drive, north of Dorchester Drive, and the police department was going to individual homes to notify residents
  • Flying Squid
    6•2 months ago

    OP, I appreciate you posting these stories, but I would ask you if you wouldn’t mind finding a different, less overall biased source.

    Voice of America is called that for a very good reason. They claim to have journalistic independence, but they are a U.S. government news source. They are run by the same “independent” group that is funded by congress and sends American propaganda to Cuba, so their claim of independence and lack of bias is really hard to buy.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Agency_for_Global_Media

    • @ModerateImprovementOP
      0•2 months ago

      What sources are better than VOA and are free?,if you don’t mind me asking.

      I think VOA is very accurate in it’s coverage of USA news and most fact checking agencies rate it as factual.

      • Flying Squid
        4•2 months ago

        For American news coverage: The Associated Press, NPR, PBS. All free.

        Although for a story like this, the local paper is often a good bet and is sometimes free. It is definitely free in this case and has far more information: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2024/07/20/salt-lake-city-evacuations/

        Bias in a story like this isn’t a big deal, but it can be in other cases and it’s best to avoid what is essentially a government mouthpiece.

        • @ModerateImprovementOP
          -1•2 months ago

          I think you misunderstood me, when I said free I meant that they licensed under creative commons and I am sorry for not clarifying that.

          I don’t like to follow news from news sources that do not license their content freely.

          • Flying Squid
            4•2 months ago

            They’re licensing their content freely because it’s a government mouthpiece. Of course they want you to use it.

            You are, again, trusting a source run by a congressionally-funded “independent” group that broadcasts propaganda to Cuba. And your reasoning is because it’s published under a CC license?

            If Stormfront published articles under a CC license, would you use them? Because otherwise, that seems like terrible reasoning.