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> the idea that news media should be neutral and objective is a fairly recent, and mostly America-only, notion You must be kidding. E.g. BBC is way ahead of A

• ubernostrum 10y ago
  Ah, yes, Britain. Home of objective, nonpartisan media: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eBT6OSr1TI
• pessimizer 10y ago
  The BBC is certainly less biased than RT, but it is still state television - anti-Brexit, anti-Corbyn, anti-Scottish independence, pro-Syrian intervention, anti-junior doctor's strike, and currently pro-Tory (because the Tories currently run the state; it would be happy to be pro-New Labour again.) It's pro-power even to the point of having to be pressured to out blatant pedophiles, like Saville, on whom it killed stories. It waited until after he died, and after it had beatified him in memorial coverage, to acknowledge him after another documentary was made on the systematic protection of Saville at the BBC. It's systematically staffed with a certain class of people who share a certain set of assumptions about the world, think that sharing those assumptions is neutrality, and think that opinions outside of those assumptions, even if held by a vast majority of the public, are propaganda. You don't get objectivity by surveying Oxbridge grads; you get something similar to what we have in the mainstream of the US, without the idiosyncrasies of our particular billionaires.