I'm on the same page. I'm a bit of a wonk and, yeah, politico has a perspective but I wouldn't call it right wing. Centralist, to an extent.

Politico exists to give people in power a way to safely and selectively leak what's useful to them.

What news organization today isn’t owned by some international goliath?

Excellent question. Here are the ones I could think of; let's collect links! (Of course, they all have their flaws.)

World at large:

• <please help me out, folks>

US-focussed:

• jacobin.com
• 404media.co
• democracynow.org
• NPR, PBS

Europe in general:

• Most public broadcasting stations (BBC and the likes of it)

Germany:

• nd-aktuell.de
• jacobin.de
• kontextwochenzeitung.de (Baden-Württemberg)
• taz.de
• jungewelt.de (with a grain of salt)
• netzpolitik.org (digital/privacy/civil rights politics)

Philippines:

• rappler.com (led by Maria Ressa, do watch this speech of hers)

This is a fantastic resource to answer that very question, and I rely on it quite a lot: Media Bias Fact Check

I looked at Welt once (their largest newspaper that is considered to be the less right wing populist one compared to Bild), and the second or so article was from the editor and boiled down to: The conservative party not working with the Nazi party (AfD, and Nazi as in literally using Nazi slogans, talking about replacement theory and differentiating between immgrants with German citizenship and real Germans) is really a ploy by the left wing parties to force their ideas on Germany and force the AfD to become more radical.

They are at least at the edge of pro democracy

Exactly! Bild is naturally hard to read; but compared to the britisch Sun or Daily Mail it seems like a leftist pamphlet 😜

Easy, show me the left aligned billionaires that own media channels.

George Soros is an often used Boogeyman by the far right, but as far as I'm aware he doesn't own a media empire like Springer, Murdoch and all the other ghouls.

Because, despite the vague boundings, right now being associated with the right is basically "pro fascism." While you could argue about traditional republican behaviours, it's obvious that the "bad" on the left are just rightwing plants.

"left-wing bias" in its most raw form is basic care for people in policy.

As a Canadian, I definitely care about who actually supports the crazy fascists that are threatening to annex my country, and are actively feeding successionist propaganda to the least intellectually robust people in my country.

People don't care about left wing bias because the left is generally defined by pro social, anti corporate/fascist behaviours. While USA made it legal to bribe democrats into kneecapping leftist intention within their party, and democrats are barely even "left" in policy to begin with.

So people aren't too worried about the smothered, unfunded, and neglected pro-populous and anti-fascist policy having its bias discretely plant itself anywhere.

There are definitely issues of leftist subgroup communication failures leading to vulnerability to "divide and conquer" tactics, but having a secret bias of "we should give people basic rights and safety" is only a worry for fascist oligarchs and their propagandized cults.

because big money owns news networks, and communities print newsletters. kinda different scopes.

Reminiscent of dumping on the Washington Post because Bezos.

Things did turn out quite badly.

The reason that quality independent journalism is so hard to find is that nobody much is paying for it. Including you, probably.

There are several interrelated reasons: Lack of funding (in part due to a lack of an advertising subsidy, which is a good thing), lack of prominence, lack of readers recognizing the value of independent journalism.

The crucial thing is that with everyone who does recognize its value—and the harm that is caused by a corporate-dominated media landscape—and who therefor starts to make a conscious effort to read independent sources more often, to point others to them, and to support them financially (which I do, for the record), those issues improve in tandem.

I pay for The Guardian and I swear there are dozens of us!

The Bylines network is good and free (apart from the necessary ads, of course).