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Just read The Economist. Only comes out weekly!

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Similarly The Guardian has a weekly publication - https://support.theguardian.com/uk/subscribe/weekly

Unfortunately it doesn't appear to have a digital option?

I can access a digital Guardian Weekly through my public library's online magazines (Hoopla or Libby or some such).

Thanks, that's good to know.

And I've just seen that you CAN get The Guardian Weekly digital subscription here, free if you've got a print subscription? Though obviously I'm wondering why the Guardian don't advertise this?

https://theguardianweekly.pressreader.com/

Yeah that's weird. The Guardian has a global catchment area. It's no longer a Manchester or UK paper. A lot of foreign readers wouldn't subscribe to a print sub because it's not worth the hassle.

I'd also feel bad getting some dead trees filled with chemicals and flown across the pond then someone driving it out to me, all that environmental impact when I could just download it.

Reading one source of news only, especially one with such marked bias, is bound to leave you with a limited worldview. Consult instead a variety of sources.

Yep, I subscribe to the Le Monde weekly, 10 printed pages newspaper delivered home. Enough to know what's what and done.

Considering the amount of cash and/or subsidies that Le Monde has received in the last 30 years from the French government, you may as well read the Pravda. Nobody bites the hand that feeds them.

I don't think it received anything? Besides a VAT of 3%? But it is the voice of it's 3 owners.

You can read all about it here https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aides_%C3%A0_la_presse_en_Fran... if you want and if you understand French.

Basically the French new outlets are some of the most subsidized on the planet.

Just to give you some quick figures, in 2010, the French government gave news outlets 1.8B euros in subsidies and in 2012 another 1.2B euros. There is no mention of the subsidies in the years after that but there is no reason to think that these would have shrunk significantly.

That's not even mentioning the special tax breaks that journalists get and the fact that most news outlets are staffed by union members.

Knowing that most unions are leaning left politically, it is fair to say that the coverage of the news by these outlets will be tainted by their political ideology. It's just human nature.

All of this to say that in light of all this, it is best to treat any French news outlet as basically an arm of the government that will never go against the interests of the their real owners, the politicians, unions and the billionaires.

Le Monde is but one of these outlets but nevertheless they take the money just like the other ones.

I want news about France, from abroad. I take what I can get. I also have the Washington Post, The Economist, Nikkei, BBC, NYT, etc. and I'm sure you have plenty to say about them.

At the end, the goal is to have as many different sources and make your own opinions from their analysis.

Not necessarily. In Holland our NOS is publicly funded which is just defined by law. A minister can't just change that.

If anything they get complaints of being left leaning sometimes. While our government is (well, was, it just collapsed) a hard-line radical right wing one similar to Trump.

I used to do that too, but the Rittenhouse incident was the final straw for me. I remember reading in the magazine that he "shot into the crowd", but by that point I had already watched the video analysis on the New York Times's YouTube channel which showed that he only shot at people who attacked him. That was what the jury agreed with as well.

In the end, I think the most accurate place to get your news from is a history book.

So one inaccurate report about one event and you swore off "The Media" forever? Doesn't seem very wise.

"Final straw". One straw alone won't break a camel, will it?

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