I'm drifting a little off topic here but...

Global "news" is not really news anymore. It's much more propaganda. At least with papers like pravda and the pyongyang sun you know that you are just being fed tripe that they want you to hear. As an resident of yank land I get to experience first hand the "daily news" from various papers. It would be laugable if it wasn't serious. Unfortunately, quite a few people here believe the crap that's being passed on as "news".

It's gotten so bad that even the most basis and verifiable things such as inflation is blantantly lied about. Real inflation in the US has run well north of 10% for 3 years now. The items that we all buy such as food, rent or mortgage, insurance, gasoline, and utilties are all up way more than 10% during this period while they constantly parrot the 3-5% line. The know that if they repeat the lie enough people will start to believe it. Of course, the political angle or reporting is even more of a joke. we see it daily but they report something totally different.

The European news sources are much better but still prone to influence by the leanings of the editor vs what really happened. At least you get some semblance or reality occasionally.

Don't know much about Hay but will observe that he seems to be wrong quite a bit on his scoops.