Personally I like to watch the news without all the eye-rolling and insults and such. And I thought I'd scream if I had to hear "Saddam and his weapons of mass destruction", "liberation of the Iraqi people", and some of the other often repeated phrases and slogans over and over, thousands of more times. One night it got so bad I was thinking of ways to disable the tv without ruining it. Now that the war is over it's a LITTLE more tolerable. It almost caused me to have thoughts of divorce.
I prefer to see strait news and do the thinking for myself.
Then watch ABC -- they continually try to put their viewers in a mental "strait"-jacket.
and do the thinking for myself.
By all means, watch another news channel. That's the beauty of what we have -- choice. For years, we didn't have any choice -- it was all left-wing, anti-American agitprop. If you feel more comfortable with that, go for it and God Bless you.
I hope you and your husband are well.
"I was gobsmacked to hear, in a set of headlines today, that the coalition was suffering 'significant casualties'," he wrote. "This is simply NOT TRUE. Nor is it true to say (as the same intro stated) that coalition forces are fighting 'guerrillas'. It may be guerrilla warfare but they are not guerrillas.
"And who dreamt up the line that the Coalition are achieving 'small victories at a very high price'? The truth is exactly the opposite. The gains are huge and the costs still relatively low. This is real warfare, however one-sided, and losses are to be expected," he wrote.
Then you have the episode where the crew of the Ark Royal insisted that BBC News 24 be switched off and replaced with Sky News: One senior rating said: "The BBC always takes the Iraqis' side. It reports what they say as gospel but when it comes to us it questions and doubts everything the British and Americans are reporting. A lot of people on board are very unhappy." Article.
Of course, everyone knows the BBC is biased against the Eurosceptic cause, the UK conservative party, the US republican party, the libertarian movement, firearm ownership by civilians and Israel.
But remember that the BBC is funded by a compulsory “license fee” on TVs, Video recorders, set-top digital decoders, and computers fitted with TV Cards (they are eyeing up broadband enabled computers too). Failure to pay is punishable a £1,000 fine per offence, or a prison sentence. Hence it has no right to use its publicly funded power base to forward the political and cultural engineering crusades of its elite staff.
The people they prosecute for license fee non-payment tend to be the most vulnerable too:
“Shockingly, 80 per cent of the people they do prosecute are single mothers on benefits. I've contacted 30 people being prosecuted in the North-West and the Midlands and am working with them to provide a legal challenge. We have a good case."Article.
The BBC is an inefficient, overstaffed and decadent organisation. Here is what an ex-employee had to say about it: “I worked for the BBC for 5 years. In that time they spent £5 MILLION on changing the old italic red green and blue logo to the upright white one and a further £7 MILLION changing the BBC stationary. If a department moved offices they were treated to a case of Champagne and unlimited sandwiches and snacks if they didn’t complain. We had taxi’s to take us between building as near as 500 yards apart. The waste was incredible. They had an expensive security check and found that in 5 years, 19 (yes, nineteen) baby grand pianos went ‘missing’ from various BBC premises. Every building has a subsided Bistro and staff restaurant and every office has multiple televisions and radios displaying every conceivable channel, even the adult variety. So that’s why I bitterly resent paying my licence fee.” Source.
The BBC is an institution out of control. They were created to provide two (initially one) TV channels, and local/national radio stations. Now, the USA can receive BBC World especially produced for America (paid for by the British license fee payer), the same in Australia and programs especially designed for Asia Pacific. On satellite TV, there is BBC knowledge, BBC Choice, BBC Four, BBC News 24, BBC Parliament, CBBC, plus a host of strange BBC radio stations. Who gave them authority to expand to such an extent? How much does it cost us to provide free satellite TV (without adverts) to the US and Asia Pacific?
As for FOX news, at least their political sensibilities and loyalties are overt, so you can choose not to subscribe and watch something else, if your husband will let you! The British TV owning public are forced to pay for the BBC whether they watch it or not.