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[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Who the fuck rated euronews "Left-Center" and "High" [credibility]? They're obscure as fuck. Mostly a tracker/data broker with an AI generated "news" frontend spilling clickbait AI slop never quoting any reliable sources.

[–] tal 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I don't think that they're obscure. If you asked me to name a major, non-state-run English-language mainland European news source, it'd be in the top three to come to my mind: Euronews, Euractiv, and EU Observer (with the last focusing on stuff in Brussels; maybe a better source for the !EuropeanFederalists@lemmy.world community).

They featured prominently on /r/Europe back when I followed it.

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org -5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

"Obscure" means nebulous, not clearly visible, of unclear origin. So, if you're arguing their obscurity, who exactly are euronews? What are their sources, who are their correspondents, who's financing them, what is their business address or business model? I've wondered about that quite for a while but there's nothing to find except their data brokering service which seems good evidence that they are not what they claim to be: a news organization. So what exactly are they if not obscure?

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Let me wikipedia that for you.

"left-center" is likely to be US brainrot, though, everything left of Nixon is far-left to them.

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org -1 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't even care about that as much as about their obscurity. But it seems people here are too damned stupid to understand what "obscure" means in case of a news outlet. Makes me wonder a lot less how people are falling for fake/manipulative news or "corporate communications".

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Just because you don't know them doesn't mean they're obscure. They were even broadcasting over the air back when that was still relevant.

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org -2 points 20 hours ago

Do you know them? Who's editor in chief? Can you answer any of the questions I'va asked above? Did you read it?

[–] SMillerNL@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

So, the breakdown of their ownership on the about page that links from the front page is not enough to answer some of your questions?

https://www.euronews.com/about

[–] b_tr3e@feddit.org 0 points 22 hours ago

No, exactly that's what I mean by "obscure". An investment group is not a publisher nor a news agency, not even a media group.When it comes to publishingh that's just obscure. It's almost the definition of an obscure media outlet.