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by Chriky 2958 days ago
The BBC is not government funded, and all television news in the UK, including Murdoch's Sky News is required by law to be unbiased.

If it's a choice between the BBC and the constant, blatant, society distorting lies you see in American "News", I'll take my Orwellian dystopia thanks.
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phaemon 2958 days ago
They are only required to provide "balanced" coverage during an election, nothing more. The BBC is absolutely biased, as was made clear during the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum. The distortions and outright lies they continually produced were astonishing to me.

You can see plenty examples of this at Wings Over Scotland (which I know is biased, but is also scrupulously accurate)

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Chriky 2958 days ago
https://www.ofcom.org.uk/tv-radio-and-on-demand/broadcast-co...

There's no mention here of the regulation only applying during elections - where are you getting that from?

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Can you link me to some of the lies from the BBC during the indyref?

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phaemon 2957 days ago
Ah, I was thinking of the election rules where they are required to give a representative amount of time to each party, not the impartiality rules which, frankly, are vague to the point of uselessness.

The classic example of BBC lies would be Nick Robinson of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_XhTALHQzI

If you want a more recent example of BBC bias, try: https://wingsoverscotland.com/the-bad-losers/

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