On Aug 1, 11:54*pm, Graeme wrote:
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On Aug 1, 11:20*am, Graeme wrote:
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On Aug 1, 10:25=A0am, Arthur Figgis
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On 01/08/2010 18:07, 1506 wrote:

On Aug 1, 8:32 am, Arthur
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On 01/08/2010 16:09, allantracy wrote:

The Daily Mirror ran one of those appalling =91politics of
envy=92 st=
ories

Next thing we know the Sun will have pictures of topless women,
and th=
e
Times an article about how the BBC is a bad thing!

Lord Reith's BBC was a landmark in broadcasting history. =A0At one
time it was one of the UK's greatest assets. =A0Sadly, very sadly,
it has long since passed its "sell buy" date.

(Aren't you on a different continent?)

Not always!

So what is the alternative - and is it fair and balanced?

A free market in broadcasting, much as we have with newspapers..

You've not heard of satellite and cable then?

Which are great. *But, the BBC has a license to utilize the public
airwaves. *They should either stay true to the "unbiased" mandate, or stop
accepting the license fee.

Your evidence that they are not unbiased is?

Your evidence that the BBC is still Lord Reith's unbiased broadcaster
is?

Endemically, and unquestioningly the BBC has become the mouthpiece of
"Social Democracy". These US are always ion the wrong. The UK is
normally in the wrong. Ethnically fair complected people are always
the aggressors. This is often not stated, but almost always implied.
Let me give you one historic example:

"American aggression in Vietnam", to those of us of a certain age
those words are firmly fixed in our minds after hearing them every
night from the BBC. We never heard "Viet Cong Intimidation", or "Viet
Cong atrocities", only the "bad" Americans. Now, no one would argue
that the servicemen of any nation always behave impeccably under
pressure.

A few years after the Communist victory in South Vietnam and
reunification it was NOT these United States from whence hundred of
boats fled for fear of our regime. Yet I did not hear the BBC and its
fellow travelers acknowledge that the allied fight against an insipid
evil may have been right.

This is but one example. The editors of Pravda could only wish for
the skills, not to say cajones, of the BBC.