• Joe Dyrt@lemmy.ml
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    3 days ago

    Just follow BBC World News. You’ll soon realize most domestic news ain’t fit to print!

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      2 days ago

      BBC is meant to be unbiased, but as we’ve seen with reporting on Gaza, that doesn’t always work out the way it’s supposed to

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          2 days ago

          No, but considering the levels of actual misinformation on certain subjects, from a media platform who’s stated purpose is truthful reporting… it’s a bit short of nobody’s perfect. The BBC and the CBC should be held to a higher standard. Yes, state funding for media sounds like a good way to create a propaganda machine, but it’s not like the 0.01%ers who owns most of the world’s “independent” media aren’t running a blatant agenda to sway the public to hurt themselves. And in a properly functioning democracy, state funded media is accountable to the public…