Comment by iteratethis

You picked the wrong country. I'm from the Netherlands and it's not in a dire state.

It has newspapers across the spectrum. Volkskrant and Parool are left-wing, AD is centrist, Telegraaf is center-right. To name a few. This reflects our political system which is a distribution rather than a binary system.

In addition, there's state-owned news that reports very factually, with little to no bias in any direction.

We also have excellent deep journalism, my favorite being Follow The Money: https://www.ftm.nl/

EU edition: https://www.ftm.eu/articles

...the type of journalism the entire world needs.

The Netherlands has no hard-right or alt-right newspapers or TV channels. Not because it's not allowed, we just don't have the equivalent of Fox.

In my view, this is a blessing. It's not because I'm left wing. I'm center-right. Alt-right with their misinformation and alternative facts are an attack on information itself. It's not just "another view", it undermines reality itself.

And for the record, we have no hard-left in mainstream media either. Not because it's not allowed, it just doesn't work over here.