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Two things: BBC is government funded and running misinformation and fraudulent editing to affect a foreign regime There is no pretense that fox news is someho
by bko 11mo ago
Two things:
BBC is government funded and running misinformation and fraudulent editing to affect a foreign regime
There is no pretense that fox news is somehow objective. At best people say it balances out the bias of nearly every other mainstream publication. For instance check 2016 newspaper endorsements
Trump had 28 compared to over 600 for not trump
Newspaper endorsements in the 2016 United States presidential election - Wikipedia https://share.google/jOTQxKDCycI7bm04i https://share.google/jOTQxKDCycI7bm04i
- devsda 11mo agoI never understood the concept of newspapers endorsing a candidate. Don't newspapers have to at-least pretend to be neutral in a democracy i.e. on the side of people. Is there some dynamic here due to America being effectively a two party democracy that I'm missing. I feel like endorsing one candidate over the other is a public declaration/acknowledgement that their future reporting on failures of their endorsed candidate will be soft and reporting on the other party will be aggressive. Someone who regularly follows news on both sides may be able to tell whether this has been true so far or not.
- LeoPanthera 11mo ago> BBC is government funded While the BBC does receive government money, that money is used exclusively for the BBC World Service. It is misleading to say the BBC is "government funded", when the majority of their output is funded by the license fee.
- mvdtnz 11mo agoThe license fee which is enforced by government.