Re: Lib Dem Defections

On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Matthew Huntbach wrote
usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote [...] 

I think the media as a whole is fairly balanced in this country.
Perhaps the newspapers are more to the right while TV news is more to
the left. (What TV channel is as to the right as More4 is to the left?)
I don't think there's any need for a precise balance: what's important
is that there is a range of view expressed. You paint a picture of an
overwhelming right-wing bias which prevents a single article with a
left-wing perspective getting through -- that I don't recognise.


Sorry, I don't watch television. What is "More4"? Are you joining the
Tories in complaining the BBC is a hotbed of extreme leftists?


Television reaches more people than newspapers, so might I humbly
suggest that your analysis is lacking if you don't consider TV? Someone
who doesn't even know what More4 is cannot claim to have an overview of
how politics is reported. More4 is Channel 4's new digital channel: see
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More4>.


My understanding is that the broadcast media is bound by its terms and
conditions to be politically neutral. This in itself suggests to me that
if you see a left-wing bias in the broadcast media, the reality is that
you are pretty well far to the right in terms of your political views,
so like Tories you see anything which doesn't fit in with your right-wing
views as "more to the left". When I say "far to the right", I do mean in
terms of economics and business. I agree with you that the left-right
political terminology is a poor one. "Far right" brings to mind the politics
of the BNP, and I quite agree you are nothing like that, the complete opposite
in fact. As it is, the BNP actually appear to be pretty much a socialist
party these days, national socialist to be sure, but still socialist.
Given that "left-right" now does seem to be use to mean mainly the
economic scale, I wonder if we should stop using "far right" to mean
fascists and the like?

What tends to happen is that as the broadcast media isn't allowed to have
its own political agenda, it relies on the printed media to set one. So
it is the printed media which sets the line.

I find television to be a complete waste of time. I can read at my own
speed, but with TV I have to go and the s-l-o-w speed of the broadcast.
Also they tend to have a bias in favour of whatever is visually appealing.
I find I get enough information on what goes on on television from newspaper review columns.

Can you provide evidence to back up your claims that this "More4"
TV channel is so biased to the left-wing that it makes up
for the bias to the right of most of the press?

Matthew Huntbach
.

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