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, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

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)