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there are state-sponsered media like BBC, etc.

• Lio 7y ago
  Even with the BBC though there are conflicts of interest. For example, when the BBC introduced compulsory logins for its iPlayer service so that it could, amongst other things, form political profiles on users just in case viewers decided to be in the audience of it's political shows such as Question Time. I distinctly remember hearing the BBC News team interviewing the BBC's own staff and coming to the consensus with themselves that they were "striking the right balance". There were no descenting voices on the programme and discussion about why creating political profiles for people might be a bad thing.
  • Aethelwulf 7y ago
    Do you have a reference for that discussion?
    • Lio 7y ago
      Not to hand but I'm just having a search for it. I'm pretty sure it was PM with Eddy Mare on Radio Four and from memory would have been back in 2017.
    • michaelt 7y ago
      Radio 4's 'Feedback' [1] bills itself as "The programme that holds the BBC to account on behalf of the radio audience" and frequently interviews BBC employees. Obviously there are fraught incentives from them paying for their own criticism. Not sure cancelling the program would improve the situation though. [1] https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006slnx/episodes/downloads https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006slnx/episodes/downloads