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.
  • NotJohnSmith@feddit.ukEnglish
    4·
    1 day ago

    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

    • JohnSmith@feddit.uk
      13·
      1 day ago

      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.

      • NotJohnSmith@feddit.ukEnglish
        3·
        14 hours ago

        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

        • SleafordMod@feddit.ukEnglish
          2·
          11 hours ago

          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.

    • PussButton
      3·
      1 day ago

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