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After the referendum I find it difficult to believe that BBC UK broadcast unbiased reports.
Quite disconcerting for me as I always used to trust them.

It is now difficult for me to find any form of media that is not feeding me some kind of guff.

Sky News seem to be OK but I rarely watch
BBC Scotland seem to be pretty fair to me, although many SNP supporters would disagree with that.
I do not trust any newspapers [except the Carrick Gazette:lol:]

What form of media do you believe will give you a truthful report.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
After the referendum I find it difficult to believe that BBC UK broadcast unbiased reports.
Quite disconcerting for me as I always used to trust them.

It is now difficult for me to find any form of media that is not feeding me some kind of guff.

Sky News seem to be OK but I rarely watch
BBC Scotland seem to be pretty fair to me, although many SNP supporters would disagree with that.
I do not trust any newspapers [except the Carrick Gazette:lol:]

What form of media do you believe will give you a truthful report.
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I still generally trust in the BBC News for most news - though I also read a daily newspaper (the i) which I take as politically non-biased and fair.
 
When I was shooting pics for the media/papers and the like, I often had to take images that told the story of something. Nothing new there. However, when you're news agency tries to get you to take images of things in a more negative slant, or try to get you to get pics of someone looking glum, or in an awkward pose, that's when I started totally losing faith in the process.

I was out everyday in the lead up to the referendum and followed both camps around as much as I could. The BBC quite often miss-reported on quite a lot of things. Things that simply weren't true. For instance, a massive Yes campaign outside Buchanan Street, with hundreds of people all singing and dancing. Up the top of the street was a very small No campaign spot and the BBC ran with that story showing them all together. Nothing about the hundreds of people outside Buchanan Galleries. The BBC were instrumental in the swing of that vote with their coverage I think, and much like the rest of the media, they only really show people what they want you to see.

That's why I no longer shoot for news and sports. It gets you a bit hot under the collar sometimes. I'm a total neutral to be honest, and I had to be. I did notice the bias in the media though. Something I have trouble trusting now. I like the news, and the BBC forms a more serious outlet than most, but it's taken with a pinch of salt. Not as bad as Fox News in the states though lol
 
Very few of us really want a totally unbiased media; we want to be told what we want to hear. There's a reason I'll buy the Independent or the Guardian but not the Daily Mail.
 
For printed news I think it's a sliding scale; from the Indy/i all the way down to The Mail/National Enquirer. Difficult choices as they are all ultimately in the business of selling papers (and will do what it takes to do this) and additionally we all like to read different stuff. I'll take the i, however. As for the internet, heaven help us all.

TV is probably a happy medium with Sky News and the Beeb doing a fair (but far from perfect) job from what I see.
 
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While commenting how 'biased' the Beeb seemed on the Referendum, someone (maybe even on here) pointed out that it wasn't so much biased, but took the stance that the status-quo was fine and that those that wanted change had to prove their case. That seemed to explain a lot of the apparent bias, though Paul77's (apologies, but it's unsubstantiated) statement suggests there may have still been some bias.

UK newspapers tend to favour one side or the other and the relative failure of the 'I' demonstrates, to me, that that's what Brits like/prefer - something to back up their own opinion/bias/prejudice! I found the Torygraph to be best for Sport - at least variety, though there are challengers now - but simply unconvincing in many of its right-wing arguments, which it seems to be too covert about. The Guardian actually provides better facts on many events, but is too left-wing for me. The 'I' actually seems a bit shallow almost as if its editorial policy is to actively prevent its journalists from providing their opinion!

I come a slightly right leaning country where there was insufficient circulation for newspapers to really choose their niche (and 99.999% of world events happened elsewhere), so papers tended to either have journalists of each side on their staff or there was a morning paper of one ilk and an evening one of the other - from the same owner/publisher! It's one of the things I miss about the press here from back there - the ability to read the facts and arguments for both points of view and make up my own mind as to which is stronger! While I could, and often do, get that here by reading Telegraph and Guardian - I discount Mail and Sun as comics and, possibly a little unfairly, the Times because of its owner - I object to having to do so! And in many cases, the argument isn't actually made, so much as the opinion/bias/prejudice simply bolstered!

All in all, I'm unimpressed with the UK Press - except for Private Eye!!!
 
Doon frae Troon said:
For starters I totally lost count of the number of UK presenters who stated 'We' when referring to the unionists.
I would imagine that you and many others would not have even noticed.
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That more to do with your anti UK anti BBC bias

I don't read papers so not idea what they are like but don't recall any news channel being "bias" - surely they are just reporting the news ?
 
Liverpoolphil said:
That more to do with your anti UK anti BBC bias

I don't read papers so not idea what they are like but don't recall any news channel being "bias" - surely they are just reporting the news ?
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I'm not anti-UK and I'm certainly not anti-BBC - but I have noticed what DfT refers - or similar. Noticeable when the BBC rarely if ever refer to 'us' or 'we' when talking about the UK in foreign affairs
 
SocketRocket said:
I havent a clue what Carol Kirkwood says on the BBC but I would guess it's unbiased :smirk:
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I have the same problem with weather girl Lucy Verasamy on STV. Can never recall if it's going to rain the next day or not. :D:
 
Liverpoolphil said:
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I don't read papers so not idea what they are like but don't recall any news channel being "bias" - surely they are just reporting the news ?
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That's a frighteningly gullible approach - clearly open to being told what to think by the bias of the particular news channel!

Newspapers are far better than news channels at providing background on the particular events. There are not many news channel stories that last more than 20 or 30 seconds. So, in effect, only the headlines of the front page and first paragraph of a newspaper article is actually being reported by a News Channel!
 
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