London Banter - View Single Post - Fox News says London blasts "to Western World's advantage"

Brimstone · July 10th 05, 09:11 AM posted to uk.local.london,uk.transport.london

wrote:
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 17:26:31 +0000 (UTC), "Brimstone"
wrote:

wrote:
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 15:31:47 GMT,
(Nick Cooper) wrote:

On Fri, 08 Jul 2005 05:55:18 GMT, wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:35:28 GMT,
(Neil Williams) wrote:

On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 20:09:27 GMT, wrote:

You don't like their reporting method of "calling it like it
is"...

I would rather put it as "calling it like Murdoch thinks it is".

I have, as ever, far more respect for the BBC's reporting.

I've always been a bit suspicious of state controlled news
agencies, Pravda and such.

Except that the BBC isn't a "state controlled" new agency, and for
you to suggest it is is clear evidence of your own biased agenda.

Certainly it is. You're taxed for using it...

Whilst we have to pay a compulsory licence fee that is for using any
device which can receive TV transmissions whether or not one watches
the BBC. The advantage is that we don't have to put up with near
continuous adverts. IIRC someone worked out that the average UK
household pays more for the independendant TV and radio stations,
through buying the products, than the cost of the TV licence. Even
if one doesn't own a TV but buys products that are advertised one is
paying for the independant channels. However one doesn't have to
have a TV licence.

In any event, how it is funded is vastly different from who dictates
what is broadcast or published. The UK government doesn't dictate
what get broadcast and quite often complain about what they perceive
as the BBCs "bias". Interestingly the complaints are the same
regardless of which party is in power.

So, it appears that you're saying that your government has no control
over what can and cannot be transmitted via television. Interesting.

Under normal circumstances that's correct, and it really does **** some of
them off. :-)