Many countries (at least in Western Europe?) have state-owned media organisations, usually with rather strong provisions to ensure their independence from gover

Many countries (at least in Western Europe?) have state-owned media organisations, usually with rather strong provisions to ensure their independence from government. In practice, they usually end up being the most reliable and unbiased news sources probably because they are less subject to the pressure to write buzz pieces in order to drive viewership and therefore ad revenue up. While the other successful private media organisations end up being either buzz article mills, more or less openly ideologically oriented outlets, or high quality news with more limited output. I find the public news we get in our countries to be actually quite useful, even if a lot of them are currently under attack by governments seeking to reduce expenses and increase control by any means.