> Sorry, but you seem to be implying that European public owned media outlets are not normally to be trusted. Why?

The quality of European publicly owned medias is highly country specific and variates quite a lot:

- Some of them are critically underfunded and it becomes visible (tendency to cheap sensationalism, superficial investigation or recycled content).

- Some of them are politically rooted (Left or Right) or controlled due to a direct/indirect government involvment.

But all considered: I would say that the average are still an order of magnitude better in term of content quality and independence that the average privatized media.