One can still do a presentation of a complex topic which makes it comprehensible to non specialists. It’s a skill but hey there are plenty of good writers out there.
The problem I see with paying for a [quality] newspaper is that most of it one never reads. Maybe a few % is actually news; the rest is “features” which are generated by staff writers (or bought-in) as a constant background activity, and on a “quiet news day” they just chuck in more of the features. I am sure readership has gone up in these CV19 times because people are eager to find out the latest (The Times is regularly sold out at the local petrol station, above which I work) but this is only temporary (the vaccine is coming, and anyway people get bored) and still on most days the actual news is a few mins’ worth.
It’s a difficult business model, but I would think they could dedicate say 5% of the space to really intelligent articles on the current topic, for intelligent readers. Instead, they just do more daft features… but maybe the less intelligent people would find it scary and would stop buying the paper? One probably has to make the whole newspaper readable by more or less everybody, and same with TV channels. In the old days, BBC2 would give you technical coverage of the current issue.
We spend more annually on organic blueberries than we would spend on The Times 
Is there some specific article?
This bit I would have definitely agreed with when I was (much) younger 
Please save us from the editorial stylings of the Atlantic Monthly Even worse than the BBC.
No substantive comment then?
The part I found most interesting was the discussion of the medicolegal implications for healthcare staff on working in a crisis situation that has not been formally identified as such. We have similar issues within the NHS even outside of the pandemic, and it seems a clear area where politics and medicine overlap i.e. there is a duty towards more clarity and courage from on high.
“Is there some specific article?“
No, sorry, just a general answer to your quest of a non-dumbed down reliable and accurate news source.
It appears to be behind a paywall too
Yes, it is.
Free, or quality. Pick one.
Good to see you following your own principle, here on EuroGA, DavidJ
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No substantive comment then?
My comment is that there is no shortage of medical care where I live, mainly because health care has never been rationed by government, it is a market commodity in a well funded local market. Managing my life is the responsibility I take seriously, not ruminating about the validity of somebody else’s political agenda, as expressed by an effete left wing, ivy league, east coast rag known for navel gazing of exactly this type.
God forbid we listen to effete journalists in the Land of the Free.
