Do we need independent impartial media?

weaviemx5

and neither is MSNBC or CNN .... and?

Pacifico

At least they’re both actually registered as News Channels, whereas Fox is a state propaganda entertainment channel (although Trump seems to be losing their fawning support more each day going by his tantrum tweets)

weaviemx5

Then you should stop watching it if it upsets you so much..

Mevlock

That seems to be a standard response from some here when awkward facts are presented.  I don’t watch Fox News, I have other entertainment channels available, and have no desire to watch the Trump-fest.

Why don’t you just not watch BBC news? After all, the news is just a small part of the content that the Tv licence goes towards.

raduv1

So now we are being told what TV stations we should watch...

Power mad..

Cliff

I've really missed your trolling while you've been away..

Pacifico

I know you used a smilie here but anyone who's watched even a small amount of US news would laugh at the idea of the BBC failing miserably at being impartial.

Compared to US "news" networks the BBC is a paragon of virtue when it comes to impartiality.

Yes of course in some ways they do fail, Brexit for instance (and I'm pro remain). But overall they do a decent enough job.

So I'd give the ops idea a hard pass.

America does a great many things very well indeed.

Doing a decent job of informing and educating the American public via news is not one of them.

Pacifico

Ask any SNP supporter if they think the BBC in Scotland is impartial and they will laugh in your face

Mevlock

NPR is pretty good too. Although it has a slight left wing bias.

Mevlock

I guess my argument would be that commercial UK news at least attempts to maintain some form of impartiality even if it often fails.

And because of that we get higher quality news here.

To what degree is certainly up for debate though.