If you want a look at why biased news should be allowed, look at MSNBC or one of the Democrat channels.
Left wing channels would cancel out the influence from Right Wing ones such as Fox UK.
(888777555, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:25, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

You don't get it do you?
Fox News isn't just biased, they actively distort facts and ignore anything that doesn't fit into their warped world view.

And you were doing so well.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:27, Reply)

So do other Liberal news channels.
There should be a news market in which the public should be allowed to hear what they want to.
(888777555, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:29, Reply)

Bloody hell, you hit your head this morning?

(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:34, Reply)

Utter bollocks,
that's all fair enough if it's packaged as entertainment or discussion.
It's absolutly incompatable with the idea of news. Are you saying if you ask any watcher of news in America if they want to hear accurate unbiased news they'll say "no, I want biased inacurate news please" consumer choice only counts if there is a viable alternative.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:36, Reply)

y'know just because they are left of your position, does not make then biased.
I find them shockingly pro-authority and rather right wing at times, but I suspect this is because I am a commie/anarchist and they actually represent a fairly middle of the road viewpoint somewhere between your EDL sympathies and my desire to smash the state and instantiate a mutualist utopia (joke).
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:31, Reply)

I am able to envisage unbiased news, because ITV is always quite fair.

(888777555, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:33, Reply)

Oh don't make me laugh...

(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:33, Reply)

By world standards it's one of the best ones.
And it makes channel 4 news which is my personal fave.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:37, Reply)

Oh right.
Thought you were talking about pure ITV ITN, which always seems a little over-sensationalised to me. Then again, I can never bring myself to watch ITV. I always end up feeling a little dirty for some reason.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:38, Reply)

Anyway need I remind you that Public service broadcasters such as the BBC and RTE have the sort of power private media does not
And they are often not neutral.
(888777555, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:28, Reply)

Mate. Let's get one thing straight here...
If you say "Need I remind you", no one is going to listen to a thing you have to say, because you sound like an arrogant child.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:29, Reply)

I think the point is that most people don't want a politically biased channel.
I want unbiased unsensationalised news. Not editorial spin, bias or anything. If it is dull news, I can take it.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:32, Reply)

Don't they?
They buy biased newspapers by the millions every fucking day. You give the public way too much credit here.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:35, Reply)

they don't know that it's biased I suspect

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:37, Reply)

I know the papers are all biased in one way or another.
I was referring to radio and TV news.
( Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:38, Reply)

As a sympathizer to Free Market ideologies.
Its hard to prove such statements until one has been one opened up and we are allowed to see it fail or succeed on its own merits.
There may be a large enough minority of willing viewers to sustain it anyway. This is the choice of and business of the viewers, and it would be silly to take it away fro them because "over 50% object" to something that doesn't affect them or any other unwilling participant at all.
(888777555, Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:36, Reply)

How odd.
Parliamentary debates run that way.
(The Luggage is haunted..., Tue 19 Jul 2011, 10:37, Reply)