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This article is by the BBC. Most of us Brits consider it a national treasure for providing relatively unbiased and often deadpan reporting on news topics. :) T
by tekacs 12y ago
This article is by the BBC. Most of us Brits consider it a national treasure for providing relatively unbiased and often deadpan reporting on news topics. :)
That's not to say that there couldn't have been criticism if another source provided them with some, but the BBC tend not to provide their own 'opinion' as a criticism (think Wikipedia).
- higherpurpose 12y agoAlso, BBC seems to be a great channel to where both the UK gov and the US gov can send their propaganda pieces.
- DanBC 12y agoIt leans heavily left but prints propaganda for the right wing UK gov and the (right wing compared to UK) US gov?
- toxican 12y agoSeriously, that's really refreshing. There's a lot of bias bullshit in the US, so I love getting foreign perspectives because there's no reason to be bias .
- amsheehan 12y agoIf that's true, why does propaganda exist?
- balabaster 12y agoIt's actually quite refreshing to listen to British news after being bombarded with the hyperbole of U.S. news. But don't be naive, the propaganda is still there, it's just far more subtle and much more refined.
- canvia 12y agoEvery news source is biased. Your job is to understand what that bias is and compensate. By following multiple news sources with different bias you can discern somewhat the truth of matters is as it lies somewhere in the center. Some outlets are more predictably and openly biased towards one direction.
- vdnkh 12y agoI work with a bunch of Brits and they say the BBC leans heavily left like NPR here.
- dragonwriter 12y ago"leans heavily left" and "like NPR" are not mutually consistent descriptions.
- vdnkh 12y agoNPR does lean heavily left. I listen to it every day. I wasn't implying anything other than the BBC and NPR both lean left.
- droopyEyelids 12y agoI think calling something that leans left "left leaning" rather than "unbiased" while in a left-leaning crowd like news.y is going to be a dead end.
- _delirium 12y agoI read/listen to a bit of both (despite living in Denmark), and they strike me as leaning upper-class more than anything else, especially NPR. High culture, art museums and classical music, cultured fancy vacation destinations (Venice! Paris!), that kind of thing. Which all strikes me as more bourgeois than left. The upper classes aren't very culturally conservative, and are embarrassed by reactionary groups with lower-class bases, like UKIP or the Tea Party, so could be grouped on the left if your idea of left is opposing such groups. But they aren't very left economically, and keep their distance from lower-class movements on the left too, anything that gets too "red". In a Danish context I would imagine the archetypical NPR listener voting for the Social Liberals, who are basically in the exact center (socially liberal, economically free-market, but not radically so in either category).
- task_queue 12y agoIn the US there is no economic left. The left and right are distinguished by their social policy.
- balabaster 12y agoEr... that's the official stance. There are linguistic undertones to how they lean while maintaining their "unbiased objectivity". It's nowhere near the level of obviousness of North American news, but it's there if you listen closely.