The baseline of all mainstream western news is ProAmerican , antiRussian , antiChinese . Have you even watched European news ? So ? Most major Western news outlets are legitimately directly funded by US corporations . You realize that ' major mainstream news outlets ' are corporations themselves ? Otherwise they wouldn ' t be ' mainstream ' or ' news outlets ' that can afford cable . Since you said you ' re a journalist major you should be aware of multiple NGO organizations such as Reporters Without Borders , internet 2014 e n t i t i e s h e a r t c e n s o r s hipandsurveillanceFreedom House , press 2014 pressfreedomrankings ? gclidCj 0 KEQiAvNrBBRDe 3 IOwzLn 6 O 4 BEiQAmbKDtNbRr 5 AaU 4 QyoWj 2 VaflwrALSJ 5 yKl 85 jC 3 ZjTsaAmXZ 8 P 8 HAQ #. U 59 H 4 W 2 N 2 Tpand World Audit Press Freedom all having considerably low rankings of Press freedom and access to information than other countries including the United States which ranks considerably higher . Its pretty laughable that you are a journalist major and consider RT a legitimate news source . Here and there you can find good video clips but for daily consumption you are really doing away with your braincells .