An alternate news source

It's not the content of the Times that is objectionable.

It is the owner.

I've been pleasantly surprised by how good the Times is. Not only do you have the fabulous Janice Turner, you have Lucy Bannerman doing very good reporting on the trans issue, plus you have some really terrific female columnists such as Deborah Ross, plus the news reporting generally is excellent. The downside is the reams of fashion reporting on Wednesday and the overall right-wing bias of the columnists. But they have so many columnists you wouldn't have time to read them all anyway.

Took four hours to come up with that 'clincher,' which you are free to disseminate in this country without fear of getting gunned down on a bridge or beaten to death in prison for exposing corruption.

Why not move in with Snowden if you like it so much?

Or killing themselvs on a hillside with a penknif and a couple of paracetamol eh.

Conspiracy theorist alert.

The Economist — which isn't just about economics. It's proper grown-up reporting from around the world and that costs money, but they do decent special offers for newbies.

Or the Observer, which is only out on a Sunday. Actually, if we all bought the Observer and boycotted the Guardian the other days of the week it would make a clear point to the Guardian. They're all part of the same trust.

Fascinated that no one seems to have nominated the BBC. How far has the BBC fallen that no one believes it's a neutral, reliable news source any more?

We can disagree amicably with nobody ending up in Salisbury Hospital.

We're gona have to agree to disagree. I would not cross off any media outlet given what we've all seen (espicially if the likes of the guardian and BBC is telling you to)

The Ukranian gov are openly allied with fasicists, it seems no one has clean hands anywhere.

I have no qualms about boosting RT to be honest. I view our gov as corrupt as Putin really, maybe they are a bit more covert about it but there is no difference.

I agree RT cant be trusted on Russian news but will report things our news wont. If I was Russian I would read the Guradian to get news about Russia but as Im English I will read RT to get info I would not get with home broadcasters.

If you contribute to RT's viewing figures you are boosting their advertising revenue.

They're not like Al Jazeera, for example, that is monumentally biased with it's anti-semitic documentaries, and never breathes a word of criticism of Qatar and all the dead bodies that fell in the cement to build the World Cup stadiums. They are selective. But they don't actually lie.

RT on the other hand has promoted all sorts of crazy conspiracy theories about the Litvinenko and Sturgess murders, and Ukraine, where they excelled themselves with a mock-up collage that could have been made by Year 5 showing Ukrainian jets attacking MH17, allegedly a screenshot from Google Earth.

Block them.

Definitely cross RT off your lists, this is the propaganda arm of the Kremlin. They do 'hook' stories to grab your interest but you don't have to dig very far to find the misinformation. Some countries have banned and I assume Ofcom keep a careful eye.

I worked for a newspaper many years ago and one of the things I learned was that we go to media that reflects our views. The only good way to get information is to read a variety of opinion

I read RT on a daily basis, mainly because the BBC, Guardian, Independent cannot be trusted anymore

Found many stories that show Putin in a bad light on RT?

The Critic is really good.

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I wouldn't cross any news source off my list, particularly if they are the ones covering an important subject.
I read RT on a daily basis, mainly because the BBC, Guardian, Independent cannot be trusted anymore.
Here are a couple of articles, maybe you will have to hold your nose, maybe you won't even bother to read them.

www.rt.com/op-ed/536367-students-britains-university-range/

www.rt.com/op-ed/536277-detrans-woman-regrets-removing-breasts/

This is such an obvious own goal that it can easily be exploited by people whose goal is to actively obscure facts.

Please cross RT off your list and block their channel. It is asymmetric warfare. They say one thing while in Russia their sister channels promote "traditional values" that promote and encourage gay-bashing and wife-beating.

Moving away from newspapers, the Spectator and the Economist are both mainstream magazines that are still serious, and have been good on this particular subject, so deserve to be supported.

I discovered CapX this week after following links on here, it seems considered and balanced. The Economist or Tortoise perhaps?

X post.

Because the journalist is American she prioritises individual assertion of identity over words that enable women to talk about equality and rights.

This is a Guardian US story. Maybe one day they will spot a link between ‘pregnant people’ and ‘women’.

The main U.K. Guardian is better and still manages to carry stories like this:

www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/06/recruiting-women-for-cardiovascular-research-is-harder-study-finds

I think this is all about money. The Guardian prioritises US clicks over coherent editorial policy.