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People are not quite objective around HN when it comes to political stuff. That's fine, the technical stuff is still good.

> Take any media outlet with a big grain of salt

True. That's why you can't trust a person who gets his/her info only from BBC and NYT anymore than you can trust an engineer who doesn't know Lisp.

I'm also reading The Guardian, it has some nice opinion pieces, but when Australia is on fire the news is how some tourists saved some koalas and it's all well. When the Amazon burns, that's another story.

One of those is not actively supressed by a dictatorship.

Sorry, but you're comparing rotten apples and oranges. When RT criticizes Putin the way the Times criticizes Trump or BBC criticizes Johnson, lmk. Actually, I already know when that will happen - after Putin is out of office and the new boss wants to discredit him.

Al Jazeera is a high-quality news source.

Russia, the UK and Qatar are all quite different.