I want to switch from those American for profit news outlets to Euro or non-profit news outlets, what are my options?
I will list the ones I know and I find here:
- Bloomberg: TBA.
- Reuters : Associated Press.
- New York Times: Follow The Money, Mediapart.
- Politico: The Guardian.
- The Verge: The Register, Techzine, Heise.
I’m from the UK and would agree with you. Now is not the time to be consuming content from any government media
I know you are not.
My nemesis! I get to be John Smith on the next splinter site - deal?! :)
It’s also not the time to be consuming content from companies to be fair
Fair. I’m just trying to be alert to who controls the media I consume. Too many people in the UK blindly trust BBC and then criticise Russians for listening to what their government tell them
Any news outlet will have a bias. If nothing else, the broader culture a news organisation operates in will inherently influence their decisions.
I would say BBC is nowhere near the worst, though. Arguing they are Government controlled is just silly. You drawing a comparison to Russian media organisations is a load of tosh.
You’re right. Clearly RT has more direct collusion with its government, I just get uncomfortable with people holding BBC up higher than any media
JohnSmith and NotJohnSmith taking different sides of the argument, lol.
Anyway I like the BBC. I don’t blindly trust it, because I read other sources too, like Sky News, The Guardian, and others. But I think the BBC is very good. And I definitely don’t think it suffers from the sort of government control that RT does. There’s a difference between government-owned and government-controlled.
Thanks, this and TheRealJohnSmith’s dialogue is helping me to be a little more open to it
True, but that’s something you’ll always have to keep in mind when reading any kind of news.