The Swamp runs deeper than a bottomless pit

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Actually, I meant AP BBC AL Jazeera Reuters

Scratch BBC.  They're too ideologically ate up to practice good journalism, at least, where issues and stories concern the United Kingdom.  I doubt our Britons here would disagree with my take.

Deutsche Welle has well written articles in English, but make no mistake, they are a voice of the German government.  I suspect France24 has a similar relationship to the French government.

AJ, IIRC, is an offspring of BBC.  But I may be mistaken.  Some of their takes on the Middle East are interesting.  The wire feeds like AP etc. at times have decent stories.  But I think reporting on the international scene, in the English language, has suffered from the agencies having fewer and fewer people "on the ground" in various places to report the whole story.  What is often done today is that a news corporation builds an alliance with a news corporation in another country, and takes their stories about that country from that organization.  Unfortunately, those stories then carry any ideological baggage that the local news corporations are invested with.  It gets even weirder because it is not uncommon for those local news firms to be owned by foreign entities who dictate the "party line" for that news corporation to push ...  I've seen this in NYT and WaPo stories about countries in Europe in which I had some insight into particular issues.  It is not that the articles in NYT or WaPo were lies, but they were very one-sided.  Which seems to be the default condition for many news providers today.

Cheers