news agencies may well be full of real normal people with interests roughly aligned with the common man, but they're owned by strange rich people with interests

news agencies may well be full of real normal people with interests roughly aligned with the common man, but they're owned by strange rich people with interests usually completely at odds with those of the common man. the issue isn't one of accuracy or inaccuracy, or a failure of a valid attempt, it's one varying degrees of success at attempts to do something other than honestly tell you what's happening in the world. all news agencies larger than a certain size should either be non-profit or publicly-owned