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Rath said:

Kasz216 said:

Rath said:

Kasz216 said:

Soleron said:
I am so glad we have the BBC. It's not perfect (they keep reporting on their own shows as news) but it is far better than any American channel I had to put up with when I lived in Texas, and when it does serious reporting it is neutral and accurate.

I disagree.  The BBC is "nuetral" in that it is near the british center.

It gets harsher the more "extreme" you go.

This is no more ideal then american stations... and it only gets across one point of view period.

BBC is the most careful news source I have found.

And i've found they've generally been really hard on the extremes.

I mean, did you see the episode of Question Time where they completly tore apart the leader of that one Extreme party... UKIP or whatever.

BBC isn't any better then anyone else... you can see their biases just as easy as anyone elses in their articles.

Firstly I'm talking about them as a news source - not their political debate show.

Secondly they were ripped apart for being too soft on the extremes for allowing the BNP leader onto the show in the first place.

1) If yout talking about politcal debate shows... that's what 24 hour news networks run almost exclusivly.    They do have more balanced "news reporting" shows and those are usually on in the middle of the day when people won't watch them.  Stuff like Keith Olberman and Bill O'Reily are poltical debate shows.  Not news reporting shows.

2) That's an issue in itself isn't it?  That they get criticism for allowing a legitamite politcal party to express their views.  If you actually saw that epsiode though you'd see that's exactly what they didn't.  They were extremly unproffesional and gave the guy questions that were generally disgraceful.

Even when people are idiots it is the media's duty to not hammer then with their own talking points.  But instead ask them nuetral unloaded questions.