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> This is why I am trying to build a non-profit news site with no adverts. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/

• lvturner 13y ago
  BBC is only entirely 'non-profit' within the confines of the UK. Flip on a VPN and you hit the BBC World version of the BBC news, complete with adverts. Besides which, competition is healthy - so I applaud the creation of another another non-profit news site.
• jkldotio 13y ago
  Not quite the same as that's mostly just news/events in the middle of the spectrum. Having Will Self on to rant about things occasionally doesn't really equal bringing in think tanks, academics and NGOs. So if I am funded I will go well beyond the BBC site for politics and economics. Considering I am only asking for $40k and they have a budget of four billion pounds I think it's a reasonable proposition. That said - because the UK spends four billion on the BBC, Australia spends one billion dollars on public broadcasting and there are things like PBS, subsidized journalists in France etc. - I think it's not unreasonable to use them as the backbone for the news part. Going up the continuum though they are unequipped to do the higher policy/ideas part. Edit: The BBC also has its own biases, they refuse to release the Balen Report for example. Also, as a British citizen not in the UK, I can't access a huge amount of political content without a VPS because iPlayer is restricted.