Poisoning of Alexei Navalny

[Alan Klein]

Maybe you should start a thread on media criticism.

Nah.  Too much politics and time wasting already here.

[sf]

How can BBC be even-handed?  It is left-oriented and liberal.  It's also an arm of the British government.

Utter nonsense. Whatever its political views, the BBC most certainly is not an "arm of the British government". I rather suspect many British governments have wished that it were.

S

[Alan Klein]

Utter nonsense. Whatever its political views, the BBC most certainly is not an "arm of the British government". I rather suspect many British governments have wished that it were.

S

Ok.  So it's just liberal and left-leaning.

[Dale Villeponteaux]

Uh-Oh, Alan's on this thread. It'll soon die of political cancer I fear.

Regards,
Dale

[kers]

My favorite is BBC. They seem to me to be quite even-handed.
Russian state news outlets are propaganda outlets. I am
suprised that anyone outside Russia gives them any credence.

Regards,
Dale

Media tends to be nationalistic oriented.
If i read some things about Brexit, or the British vaccin Astrazeneca; the BBC is not very neutral. If it is about things happening in other countries it is much better.
The same with Al Jazeera, that does not spend much words on how bad the people are treated that built the world cup stadiums. But many correspondents there are independent and make good news items.

[sf]

Uh-Oh, Alan's on this thread. It'll soon die of political cancer I fear.

I doubt it. Evidence from other political threads in which he's active seems to suggest that they carry on for ever. Look at the "bear pit" thread, which has had maybe ten times as many posts as all the other threads in the forum put together (excluding only the "new vaccine" political thread). This place seems to be a political discussion forum, with some members who take the odd photograph (and don't play politics). It's rather disappointing to a newbie hoping for photographic education.

S