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Yep, I subscribe to the Le Monde weekly, 10 printed pages newspaper delivered home. Enough to know what's what and done.
Considering the amount of cash and/or subsidies that Le Monde has received in the last 30 years from the French government, you may as well read the Pravda. Nobody bites the hand that feeds them.
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Pro tip from an absolute rando: don’t bother with any source of breaking news. Read a weekly paper that summarises the important stuff. If something is truly pressing, you’ll hear about it from friends or coworkers.
From the television era: Don't watch news channels; important news will be on all the channels.
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Pro tip from an absolute rando: don’t bother with any source of breaking news. Read a weekly paper that summarises the important stuff. If something is truly pressing, you’ll hear about it from friends or coworkers.
From the television era: Don't watch news channels; important news will be on all the channels.
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Seat 11A. That's interesting, typically most survivors are located in the back, this one was in the front-center.
11A was next to the emergency exit. There was a comment on Reddit suggesting he actually bailed just before impact.
A plane at takeoff is pressurized, and that pressure holds the doors closed, as well as the physical locks. You cannot open it.
Don't believe random reddit comments. Average people know less than nothing about planes.
Speaking of random people knowing less than nothing: I believed that at takeoff and landing, planes were slightly overpressurized to increase airframe rigidity. I think I got that impression from a very old pilot, so either it used to be true or it was never true and I'm just wrong.
This person probably did not bail out of the plane in order to survive, but maybe you COULD open the doors at takeoff and landing, not that you want to.
Additional edit: I've actually flown a few times while running the barometer on my phone for funzies. I might be able to find a log of data to confirm or deny my mistaken belief! It's fun to do because you can see the pressurization increase signalling that the pilots are preparing for descent even before they tell you!
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Unfortunately for everyone's brains, this turned out to basically not be true with COVID- only real news fans (or people with expertise in the relevant science, but there are way less of those) were remotely aware that offices probably weren't going to be closed for only two weeks[0]. If you followed the news closely you stocked up on toilet paper when there were runs on it in Hong Kong, before there were runs on it…
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Le Monde Diplomatique https://mondediplo.com/ Available in many languages
Any background on funding sources/ongoing sources of revenue/ownership?
Le Monde is owned by a French billionaire: https://www.alliancemagazine.org/blog/democracy-in-france-de...
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I don't recommend this; instead, I recommend reading factual reporting, not 'analysis' which often comes with inherent political bent/bias.
Why? I went news cold turkey about 6 years ago and I'm very happy with that decision.
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11A was next to the emergency exit. There was a comment on Reddit suggesting he actually bailed just before impact.
You ~cannot~ don't want to "bail just before impact" A plane at takeoff is pressurized, and that pressure holds the doors closed, as well as the physical locks. You cannot open it. Don't believe random reddit comments. Average people know less than nothing about planes. Speaking of random people knowing less than nothing: I believed that at takeoff and landing, planes were slightly overpressurized to increase airfram…