I would say The Intercept is pretty "neutral" - but less in the "we don't take anyone's or anything's side, ever" (a mantra the NYT also abandoned in 2012, beca

I would say The Intercept is pretty "neutral" - but less in the "we don't take anyone's or anything's side, ever" (a mantra the NYT also abandoned in 2012, because it found it lacking - like with climate change, etc) sense, and more in the "holding government (whichever it may be) accountable for wrongdoing" sense, which I think is the original purpose of the media (or at least the purpose most democracies attribute to the media, even if that's not true in many cases anymore). I thought this article described rather well the main problem with the media today and how it could get back on the right path: https://popehat.com/2016/12/15/deserving-trust/ https://popehat.com/2016/12/15/deserving-trust/ The mainstream media is just as responsible for the rise of fake news as anything else, if not more so. If it didn't give people a reason to distrust it as acting not out of principle, but out of love for a certain faction of the government, perhaps fake news wouldn't be such an issue today, because most people would keep reading the same mainstream press, knowing they can trust it.