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0 pointsjeffdavis8y ago0 comments

There are legitimate concerns about that for the same reason as people would be concerned about government-funded churches.

As long as people have many options the concerns are mostly theoretical, but still valid.

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Chriky8y ago· 2 in thread

The BBC is not government funded, and all television news in the UK, including Murdoch's Sky News is required by law to be unbiased.

If it's a choice between the BBC and the constant, blatant, society distorting lies you see in American "News", I'll take my Orwellian dystopia thanks.

phaemon8y ago

They are only required to provide "balanced" coverage during an election, nothing more. The BBC is absolutely biased, as was made clear during the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum. The distortions and outright lies they continually produced were astonishing to me.

You can see plenty examples of this at Wings Over Scotland (which I know is biased, but is also scrupulously accurate)

Chriky8y ago

https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-co...

There's no mention here of the regulation only applying during elections - where are you getting that from?

Can you link me to some of the lies from the BBC during the indyref?

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