That but's bigger than this one:
Posted on 05/08/2003 3:33:18 AM PDT by ejdrapes
The Murdoch-owned Fox News Channel, whose determinedly patriotic stance during the Iraq conflict brought it critical notoriety but commercial success, is under investigation by television regulators in Britain for alleged bias. The independent television commission is investigating nine complaints by viewers of the channel, broadcast on Sky Digital satellite, also controlled by Rupert Murdoch. If the network is found to have breached the ITC's "due impartiality" rules, it could be forced out. In 1999 the ITC revoked the licence of Med TV, a channel aimed at the Kurdish diaspora, for failing to conform to the impartiality rules. Julian Petley, chairman of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, called on the ITC to act against Fox News: "I'm not in favour of censorship, but Murdoch would like to do with British television news what he has done with newspapers, which is to force people to compete on his own terms. "So if we allow into Britain the kind of journalism represented by Fox, that would bring about a form of censorship ." ITC tackles Fox News bias claims TV watchdog checks claims of bias on Murdoch channel
Let him have it:
“To begin with,” said the Cat, “a dog’s not mad. You grant that?””I suppose so,” said Alice.
”Well then,” the Cat went on, “you see a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags its tail when it’s pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m mad.”
”I call it purring, not growling,” said Alice.
”Call it what you like,” said the Cat.
Here is the problem.
Does anyone have a Communist/Muslim Maggot affiliation Directory?
I would love to find out more about this novel group.
We don't want biased news over here
Leader
Thursday May 8, 2003
The Guardian
The director general of the BBC, Greg Dyke, was not one of the moral minority who complained to the broadcasting regulator about the lack of impartiality by Rupert Murdoch's Fox News channel. But Mr Dyke's comments on "gung ho patriotism" and "narrow pro-American agendas" at the end of last month about the way the Iraqi conflict had been covered by US networks aptly sums up British objections to the raucous conservatism and unabashed jingoism of Fox, which can be received in Britain with a Sky satellite dish. Mr Murdoch's news network used Oliver North, a former US colonel and neo-conservative firebrand, as an embedded reporter in Iraq. The network referred to "our troops" and to anti-war protesters as the "great unwashed". When Baghdad fell, the news anchors addressed those who opposed the "liberation" with the words: "You were sickening then, you are sickening now."
This formula has worked in America, where Fox is the biggest news network. Ominously, there are signs Mr Murdoch would like to bring this revolution to Britain. The billionaire is reported to consider Sky's output as having a "liberal bias" and being a version of "BBC lite". Britain has a tradition of objectivity in broadcasting, which Mr Murdoch probably finds irksome.
Here "due impartiality" rules ensure the news is balanced and independent - otherwise a broadcaster can be taken off air. So if Sky produces a diatribe against asylum seekers, it must make space for the opposite view. British viewers have confidence in television news because it is delivered free of rants or bias. Minority broadcasters might be able to get the constraints relaxed in the future - but not Mr Murdoch. Sky could move from Britain to get round the law. Al Jazeera, based in Paris, is governed by French law. It would be a delicious irony if Mr Murdoch, a committed anti-European, moved to the continent so he could pollute sober fact with pointed opinion.
Yes, there have also been complaints that the BBC was too pro-American in their war coverage.
No joke.
I content that there is no such thing as impartial news.
You get a gold star.
Nah, don't waste your time.
That but's bigger than this one:
Look at the state funded media (NPR, PBS, and Pacifica (yep, they get tax dollars too)) and you'll find that they all lean left.
"Anything before 'but' is B.S." -- Jim Quinn
Nothing is bigger than that butt.
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