Everything I read these days is dark. The podcasts I listen to are dark. Maybe the world's dark but I'd rather come to that conclusion myself than have someone with a political view try to cajole me into it... and I suspect a reason why so many people are in a dark place emotionally is that the cajoling is profitable. I'm not looking for good news network nonsense, or to bury my head in the sand. I've always been a voracious reader of news and history. I read dozens of articles daily, left and right (Guardian/Fox, Vox/Commentary, BBC/France24, WaPo/Ny Post, etc). I sure try my best to distill some truth and fact from all this pathologically slanted garbage, but I see right through the appeals to emotion and fear on both sides. And with increasing frequency I find I can't pull any meaningful signal from the pre-crafted message.
So long story short, where do you go to find something as simple as current, world-wide journalism, and unadulterated facts?