[stegosaurus]

Within the subject matter they decide to report they are not terrible, but there are huge gaps in what they decide is worth reporting on.

As far as I'm concerned, their role is not simply to repeat endless interviews with the major political parties. They have a role to play in showing the public that other options exist. Lately they've given UKIP a ton of airtime with endless nonsense scandals like 'X says Y down the pub' and almost ignored the rise of the Greens.

Their wall to wall coverage during the 'phone hacking scandal' compared to ongoing total-surveillance by the NSA getting a token mention every now and then.

Today, they chose to describe Syriza as a 'radical left-wing party'. I don't think that choosing 'radical' in this context is an accident.

I could go on; some of my bugbears are more trivial than others; but I think they're definitely a 'mouthpiece of the establishment'.

Better than FOX? Sure; but that's not a high bar to meet.

Our electoral system is bad enough without major media outlets focusing almost all of their time on Red vs Blue.

[thom]

Syriza is literally an acronym for 'Coalition of the Radical Left'.