[karajorma]

Originally posted by EtherShock
I can't say about the BBC for sure since I don't live in the UK. Although, they try to be impartial, which is better than not. It's human nature to be biased, something we need to unlearn.

Watch the BBC news on PBS then and form your own opinion (I saw it a couple of times when I was last in Philly so I don't know if your local station will carry it but if it does give it a try).

As for a lack of bias you only need to have seen their coverage of the Hutton report (A government whitewash which basically blamed the BBC for a scandal while leaving the government smelling of roses) to see exactly how unbiased they can be. I was shocked and quite pleasantly surprised by how unbiased they were when reporting on it.

[TrashMan]

Originally posted by aldo_14
BBC is legally required to be unbiased, as mentioned in another thread.  It's part of its statutory duty as a nationalised broadcaster.

I seldom watch BBC so I can't judge.

but being required to do something and actualyl doing it are two completely different things.

[Kosh]

Personally, except for NPR/PBS I just don't trust American media anymore. They are owned by corperations with their own agendas. Fox is a good example of that.

[redmenace]

Originally posted by EtherShock
I think that second article is implying a connection that may or may not exist redmenace. This is an easy way to see where their bias stands. Wait for the story to further develop. Then maybe there will be enough information to determine the motive. Until then, this is brainwashing. News must be looked at objectively

I just saw a whole bunch of coincidences together in that situation. It very well could be that all of this is just a unrelated and just some stupid Neo-Anarchists Teenage Bastards whose mommy and daddy are too stupid too teach them lessons of right and wrong.

[Kazan]

redmenace coincidences happen - remember in real life(tm) probabilities are always tested in infinite parellelism so very unlikely events become likely due to the Law of Extremely Large Numbers

ie an event with prob 1:1mil happens ~256 times a day in the united states due to the Law of Extremely Large Numbers

[aldo_14]

Originally posted by TrashMan


I seldom watch BBC so I can't judge.

but being required to do something and actualyl doing it are two completely different things.

Ofcom is the regulator responsible for enforcing fair treatment.  Part of any legal requirement is the enforcement.

[karajorma]

Originally posted by TrashMan
but being required to do something and actualyl doing it are two completely different things.

Let me put it this way. How many news stations can you name who would objectively report that a government report had found them guilty of making mistakes which led to the death of one of their sources despite the fact that every newspaper in the UK described the same report as a whitewash?

Yes there is no such thing as a 100% objective and unbiased news source but if there is anything closer to being one than the beeb I've yet to hear of it.

[EtherShock]

Originally posted by karajorma


Watch the BBC news on PBS then and form your own opinion (I saw it a couple of times when I was last in Philly so I don't know if your local station will carry it but if it does give it a try).

I've had a bitter taste in my mouth over journalism since September 11th. I lost respect for journalism that day, so I guess I've got a grudge against most news sources.

We got the BBC on a cable feed a while ago at my school. We still might get it. In fact, I wrote about how they covered the war when it first broke out, along with a few other news networks, and come to think of it, I did find the BBC to be the most accurate and professional, relying less on gimmicks than the other networks. I only got an OK grade on the paper though. I have no idea what the professor would've graded an A. PBS news is elusive. I can never find it when it's on. It's funny how the conservatives accuse PBS of being liberal. I will look into these sources further, as well as NPR, when I go back to school, that's for sure. And of course making your own judgments based on the facts is the most important thing.

[Kosh]

It's funny how the conservatives accuse PBS of being liberal.

They do that in order to discredit the truth.

[Fragrag]

Where did you get that law? Its sounds like something for Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

[aldo_14]

Increasingly, everything sounds like something for Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy