On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 23:11:36 GMT, 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.

It has no operational control over what the BBC broadcasts any more
than the FCC in the US has any operational control over what networks
in the US broadcast.
--
Nick Cooper

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