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I bet you won't get a straight answer for this. Somebody should make a thread along these lines.
Post your news bookmarks folder or something. Bet a lot of people would be too embarrassed to admit what they consider unbiased journalism.
I can only speak for myself and my country, Sweden. We have 3 channels available for everyone. SVT1 and SVT2 are state government controlled and paid by us citizens. The 600 SEK(60USD) we pay every 3 month(yeah I know, 240 USD for only 2 channels per year sounds alot) will give us all the spectrum what you would consider cultural enrichment. Apart from the lack of Olympic games from the last 2 events(I think it´s a human right to watch Olympic, and you should not be forced to pay extra for a shit channel that happened to win the bid for coverage), I think I´m quite satisfied. And the big reason is the total riddance of commercials and advertisments. The third channel (TV4) that is also free to all, is a private based media(although it was bought by Telia recently, and the Swedish state owns a lot of stocks), and the majority of the funds comes from advertisments. Apart from all the horrendus talk-shows, and "real life-do this and show that so I can get famous programme", they do have as serious News coverage as the 2 channels I mentioned before.
I don´t see my self as being naive watching my Rapport(SVT1) and Aktuellt Agenda(SVT2) or TV4 news(TV4). What else would I watch? I tend to believe that people making noice about fake news (personal favorite is Trump himself) are the same people from each far to the left or right camp. The sad part is that they are so noisy that the above average intelligent human with a sober set of mind, will fall back and not take part of this spectacle of battle of clouded wits.
I learn a lot from this page, and 2 things I have found about american posters are: Statistics and the love for some conspiracy.
The statistcs comes from the love I have for NHL and the occational viewings of Monster Energy Nascar series.
Relax some more my fellow americans and try to find a middle ground instead of this vocal bitch fighting that is going on in here.
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