No we don't. I get my news from public broadcasters. They have the bonus of not pushing the owner's political agenda and being subject to public oversight.
Public broadcasters are always very soft on the party currently in power, since that's basically their boss. You need both public and private news.
Not always true, although they do tend to be soft on their own country. In either case you can solve that just by reading multiple countries' public news.
So, when are we getting that then?
Yeah. Start a newspaper that talks about such issues honestly, not like those so-called journalistic conglomerates that curate "local" newspapers across whole countries.
The issue comes from companies that were too powerful before they went to ask google for money.
Why stop at newspapers? How about diverse and independent provision of pretty much everything?
People don't appear to want this, of course. Pity.
Agreed. But this approach is not going to achieve that. On the contrary.
True, but if there's one thing that we did learn over last decade or so is that the old guard newspapers are neither diverse nor independent.