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BBC ceased being universal and viewed as legitimate when it delved into politics and political issues. PBS in the US made the same mistake. The era of publicly
by xqcgrek2 5y ago
BBC ceased being universal and viewed as legitimate when it delved into politics and political issues. PBS in the US made the same mistake.
The era of publicly funding TV should have ended years ago when information and news became free (essentially when US household internet or smartphone penetration reached 85%+)
- tablespoon 5y ago> BBC ceased being universal and viewed as legitimate when it delved into politics and political issues. PBS in the US made the same mistake. I've been watching a bit of PBS Newshour recently (easy, since full episodes are on Youtube), and if it's done that, it's done it to a far lesser extent than the commercial cable networks. Also, you can't have a good news program without "delv[ing] into politics and political issues." Often times when I see similar criticism, the real issue is the programming is not 100%-yourside inoffensive, but you won't get that from anything that's not Yourside-Pravda.
- xnyan 5y agoI'm interested to know which years you consider the BBC and PBS to have been "non-political" or not engaged in propaganda (propaganda in the dictionary sense, not the pejorative sense)? I've watched both for 30 years and also significant amounts of archival footage from both as a hobby/interest in broadcast history, and it's very clear that they have always had politically motivated narratives.