Internet Activity to Be "Monitored" Under New UK Laws

[Kantor]

SamuelRSmith said:

Kantor said:

How nice it must be to have news show hosts who actually have opinions. We should try that in Britain. The closest we get to an interesting news presenter is Jeremy Paxman, and it's part of his job to be completely impartial in everything.

Here's my problem with the British media: there is no non-establishment broadcast. While there may be no obvious left-right wing bias, it is very clear that the media in the UK pumps out a very mainstream message. This is probably due to the fact that most of our media (by which, I mean the BBC) is filled with ex-establishment employees, and probably vice versa.

I personally worry that the BBC is one of the main reasons behind this country's "sacred cows". The BBC seems to pump out so much pro-NHS propaganda, with semi-pro-EU, and other biases (ever noticed how the British media just works on the assumption that Al Gore was 100% right about global warming, and that if we don't switch our lights off, we'll be kayaking to work in a few years?), and it reaches everbody, subtley.

As an aside to the Americans who envy our BBC. They ignore Ron Paul in the American Election coverage just as much as your guys do. Perhaps the idea that the Government doesn't have to do everything is something that goes against our media's mantra.

I agree completely. I have never understood some people's love affair with the BBC.

Obviously, compared to the Daily Mail and the Sun and such, it's a paragon of journalism, but no respectable service should be comparing itself to those two. It honestly tries so hard to avoid left-right wing bias that it pretty much, as you said, just goes along with whatever the majority appears to think (because it's impossible to have no bias at all).

The Telegraph used to be a great paper, and it's now a women's magazine. I can objectively appreciate the Guardian and Independent, but they're filled with idealist nonsense, and the Times is owned by Rupert Murdoch and I have trouble accepting what it says.

The Economist is really the only good "newspaper" left to us. Do you read it?