worldwide press freedom rankings

[SamuelRSmith]

highwaystar101 said:

Retrasado said:

SamuelRSmith said:
I bet it's the libel laws that drop the UK down, or, at least, has a lot to do with it.

tbh, I don;t think you can realistically have much less regulation than the UK does unless you want the entire media to be like the comment section on a Youtube video.

 

Ofcom guidelines state that a terrestrial TV channel cannot have a political bias, that's why the BBC is overly careful when it comes to politics.

I don't think it should be like that, it should be a little loser btu it needs guidelines still so we don't have a load of channels become FOX news.

 

The political bias doesn't change what a channel runs, it just changes the way it is presented. I mean, remember that whole story of that intel-guy who went to the BBC because he knew that there weren't any WMDs in Iraq, and the BBC run the story, despite protests from the Government. The whole thing went to Parliament, etc.

The informant got put under so much pressure that he ended up committing suicide.

This just proved, however, how free the press was in this country when it came to political issues. The BBC, the only channel that the Government has the power to destroy (by getting rid of the TV license), was able to openly criticise and strutify the Government on a huge and very contentious issue.