I listen to the BBC most days. They routinely report absolutely damning things about Trump and about Israel.
Also the license fee is meant to be for live TV
Question-begging.
If the BBC is so good and so worth keeping about etc it should be a subscription service
Ah, so it can turn to lowest-common-denominator shit and get bought in 5 years by the animated corpse of Rupert Murdoch. Wonderful.
Public service broadcasting (as a concept, not PBS) is a public good, and needs to be paid for as such. If it only gets money from the people who watch it, it doesn’t fulfill the goal of being something available to everyone; it will cater more and more to its narrow audience. It’ll get more biased as it caters to that audience’s biases.
You watching a different BBC than me because I see their news reports talking about Lebanon and Gaza being bombed but they Never actually say which Country is bombing them or give any real details.
Here’s one link but I could find dozens all talking about the same thing.
My opinion BBC is just propaganda that makes trash programming and if they can’t fund themselves tough.
Two things. First, I’m listening to a BBC where Jeremy Bowen comes out and describes the utter devastation that Israel has wrought on Palestine, where they get aid workers, UN diplomats, campaigners, legal experts and all sorts to come on and do interview after interview in which they lay out exactly what Israel has done, why they are war crimes, and what the evidence is.
Second, I don’t need a news organisation to tell me that Netanyahu is an evil murder to draw that conclusion myself from the factual reporting they already do. Seems like nor do you.
I don’t think their reporting is perfect, but one thing I do know is that the times I remember people complaining about their reporting in the past, those people put forward something far more biased as a better option. The BBC is at least trying to be impartial. Yeah, their language could be a bit tougher but at the end of the day it’s not the presence or absence of tough language which makes the difference here: it’s whether you report the facts as best as it’s possible to discern them.
I listen to the BBC most days. They routinely report absolutely damning things about Trump and about Israel.
Question-begging.
Ah, so it can turn to lowest-common-denominator shit and get bought in 5 years by the animated corpse of Rupert Murdoch. Wonderful.
Public service broadcasting (as a concept, not PBS) is a public good, and needs to be paid for as such. If it only gets money from the people who watch it, it doesn’t fulfill the goal of being something available to everyone; it will cater more and more to its narrow audience. It’ll get more biased as it caters to that audience’s biases.
You watching a different BBC than me because I see their news reports talking about Lebanon and Gaza being bombed but they Never actually say which Country is bombing them or give any real details.
Here’s one link but I could find dozens all talking about the same thing.
My opinion BBC is just propaganda that makes trash programming and if they can’t fund themselves tough.
Two things. First, I’m listening to a BBC where Jeremy Bowen comes out and describes the utter devastation that Israel has wrought on Palestine, where they get aid workers, UN diplomats, campaigners, legal experts and all sorts to come on and do interview after interview in which they lay out exactly what Israel has done, why they are war crimes, and what the evidence is.
Second, I don’t need a news organisation to tell me that Netanyahu is an evil murder to draw that conclusion myself from the factual reporting they already do. Seems like nor do you.
I don’t think their reporting is perfect, but one thing I do know is that the times I remember people complaining about their reporting in the past, those people put forward something far more biased as a better option. The BBC is at least trying to be impartial. Yeah, their language could be a bit tougher but at the end of the day it’s not the presence or absence of tough language which makes the difference here: it’s whether you report the facts as best as it’s possible to discern them.