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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.
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[โ€“] PussButton@lemmy.org 9 points 2 days ago (11 children)
[โ€“] Mee@reddthat.com 3 points 2 days ago (10 children)

In my humble opinion, it does not really replace any of them.

[โ€“] NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (9 children)

I'm from the UK and would agree with you. Now is not the time to be consuming content from any government media

[โ€“] PussButton@lemmy.org 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It's also not the time to be consuming content from companies to be fair

[โ€“] NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] JohnSmith@feddit.uk 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] SleafordMod@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] NotJohnSmith@feddit.uk 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks, this and TheRealJohnSmith's dialogue is helping me to be a little more open to it

[โ€“] PussButton@lemmy.org 3 points 2 days ago

True, but that's something you'll always have to keep in mind when reading any kind of news.

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