[alistairSH]

Agreed.

My solution was to subscribe to one reasonable newspaper (Washington Post). Between that, free BBC content, and NPR, I think I get a reasonable overview of world and local news.

But, that does mean I miss breaking investigative news from other sources. At least until it's picked up elsewhere or made available elsewhere. It's a bummer at time, but paying for a large subset of possible news sources would cost 10x+ what I pay now.

[falafel]

BBC, NPR and Washington Post are all left leaning organizations funded by governments and billionaires. I don't know if I would call this "getting a reasonable overview of world and local news".

[gamblor956]

BBC, NPR, and Washington Post are all neutral organizations.

WaPo is the home of neocons Hugh Hewitt and Jennifer Rubin. When I first started reading WaPo, they were considered (and they considered themselves to be) far right neocons. These days, Ms. Rubin would be classified as a moderate (and considers herself to be an independent) and Mr. Hewitt is frequently accused of being a RINO. They haven't changed their political stances (if anything, Hewitt is more conservative now than he was before); it is simply that the Republican Party has moved extremely far to the right in the past decade and what was once considered extreme is now moderate.

[tatrajim]

NPR is a "neutral organization"? I suspect that would wound the souls of many of the staff there.

See, for example: "New NPR Ethics Policy: It's OK For Journalists To Demonstrate (Sometimes)"

https://www.npr.org/sections/publiceditor/2021/07/29/1021802...

[heyoni]

Yuuuup. Like the above poster said, conservatives have gone way off the deep end…to the point where sometimes it’s really ducking hard to talk in any sort of neutral tone.

I read a lot of Reuters during the trump admin and boy you could hear their tone subtly slip the whole time and when the election results were being contested, journalists everywhere were straight up calling it baseless and inflammatory. Not very neutral but also just facts. And at some point, trying to sound neutral no matter the circumstances is going to sound insane.

[pydry]

It amuses me when people call the news organization that censored booing of Boris Johnson neutral.

The WaPo isnt even neutral by American standards - it has an unusually tight knit relationship with the pentagon.

Essentially those 3 organizations provide 3 different angles on what the pentagon wants you to hear.

[vlark]

Media Bias Chart to the rescue: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/media-bias-chart

[cyclotron3k]

The BBC is not government funded, it is paid for by British citizens.