I suppose what my draw to RFE was, was that it would cover human rights and injustices in these relatively uncovered country by THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA.
This is odd since when the nyt or someone else with more clout writes a big big denounce story on why x country is bad or secretly trying to kill all of us they typically blend in previous stories or sources from Radio Free Somewhere or some other rights NGO lol.
Maybe because RFE specifically focuses on very specific 20 or so countries. Whereas NYT or any other major paper may run a story about something from that country or dealing with that country, but in general it isn't common.
Like I don't go to NYT on a daily basis. But I can't remember the last time I read any article about Kazakhstan there for example. Not because they don't run any stories about Kazakhstan, but because chances are pretty slim it will pop up on the front page of the website. Whereas if there is something about freedom of speech suppression or conflict between some group of people being oppressed by the government it will likely be on the front page of RFE.
Just a luck of the draw where the NYT is playing with a full deck of cards and RFE is only playing with a smaller deck so yeah I mean I was more bound to bump into Bulgaria news on RFE rather than BBC or NYT or DW.
Edit: I guess on another note, why I had a bit of a more trusting view of RFE was because from time to time their journalists or correspondents would be abducted or terrorized for certain things they would cover in countries with lesser amounts of freedom of the press. So I took it as a positive. Not that I was happy that person X was facing possible death or torture. But that they were pressing on some topic enough where someone would go as far as to take such a violent step to silence them.
