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Public support politicians presenting on news channels... Aug 16, 2023 10:27:22 GMT via mobile The Squeezed Middle likes this

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Post by johnofgwent on Aug 16, 2023 10:27:22 GMT

Aug 16, 2023 7:05:43 GMT Pacifico said:

On a wider point are these rules about impartiality on TV really relevant in the 21st Century?. It kinda mirrors the arguments about the TV licence, yes it was a great system in the last century when you only had 4 TV channels that everyone watched and people got most of their news from them - but time has moved on.

In an age where much of the youth get their news from Social Media that actively delivers specific content based on the political likes of the viewer, has the idea of a real impartial channel had its day?.

The Brexit debate showed that the BBC was no longer even attempting to be impartial in political debate program's like question time so is this idea that any station can be impartial actually workable - especially as much of the headline news output of the main BBC, ITV, Ch4 channels is not reporting the news but the pundit explaining the news (and thus putting their own spin on it)

well that’s a good point. I don’t believe the BBC is even remotely impartial. Its insistence on using the same weasel words to refer to money grubbing freeloaders trying to invade this country for the better lifestyle and those fleeing a machine gun toting warlord and a band of recently released convicted murderers and rapists demonstrates better than anything else why my cynicism is justified.

I think it is time to take down these fake pedestals upon which woke shitheads are allowed to falsely claim a high ground they really have no claim to at all. Nothing to do with ‘this being the 21st century’ other than last century their bullshit might gave been believed just as corrupt policemen were believed in witness boxes