news.bbc.co.uk - Does anyone look at this site for news?
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I do use it quite a lot and prefer it to most others. Maybe it's just because I'm used to the format and know I ain't going to get bombarded with ads.
My primary source of news though is news.google.co.uk as the site has a wide range of opinions and is tailored for what I want.
To follow a breaking news story like yesterdays M6 toll fiasco I follow twitter.
My primary source of news though is news.google.co.uk as the site has a wide range of opinions and is tailored for what I want.
To follow a breaking news story like yesterdays M6 toll fiasco I follow twitter.
Puggit said:
Over the last few years I have moved from using the bbc website as my sole source of news to never using it.
I'm the same, although probably not for the same reason.Just like with a printed paper, I tend to read the sports section first, and then go to the proper news. Some time ago, the BBC "redesigned" (make a f
k-awful mess of) their sports section so horrendously that I started using the Telegraph to read the sports stuff, and then just clicked through to Telegraph news instead of BBC news when I'd finished with the sport.Murdoch considers the BBC News to be a major threat. The Mactaggart lecture in, I think, 2009 by little Jimmy Murdoch concentrated on BBC News. There was a leader in The Times yesterday regarding BBC News. Murdoch feels that it is costing him money.
If a politician wants to be supported by News International all he or she has to do is to say something nasty about the BBC. Boris Johnson, when looking for support for his campaign for Mayor of London, attacked the BBC using, rather lazily, the words, phrases, and almost sentences of the Mactaggart speech.
Whether the BBC News online is good bad or indifferent, it is the only news source that has the requirement to be fair. If you feel it it is not being fair then you can complain and if you have evidence then one would assume something will be done.
The time is going pay-per-view has been something of a disaster. There is little doubt that Murdoch's initial attack on BBC News was in order to encourage people to pay for online news. He did that is that I assume that at the back of his mind there was something along the lines of: if the BBC are longer produces news then other news outlets would begin to charge as well.
BBC news is under attack from the British government. Firstly by Blair and now by Cameron. They have a political appointee in charge now and one wonders how long it will be before there are swingeing cuts to the BBC News budget.
Whether the BBC should be financed in the way it is is one question. Another is whether or not we should kowtow to the demands of Murdoch and News International.
The vast majority of news sources in this country are at one end of the political spectrum. Even the Guardian is hardly left-wing. We have no political neutral sources of news in this country. One good thing about the BBC is that it was hated by Blair and his hated by Cameron. That's got to be a positive.
If a politician wants to be supported by News International all he or she has to do is to say something nasty about the BBC. Boris Johnson, when looking for support for his campaign for Mayor of London, attacked the BBC using, rather lazily, the words, phrases, and almost sentences of the Mactaggart speech.
Whether the BBC News online is good bad or indifferent, it is the only news source that has the requirement to be fair. If you feel it it is not being fair then you can complain and if you have evidence then one would assume something will be done.
The time is going pay-per-view has been something of a disaster. There is little doubt that Murdoch's initial attack on BBC News was in order to encourage people to pay for online news. He did that is that I assume that at the back of his mind there was something along the lines of: if the BBC are longer produces news then other news outlets would begin to charge as well.
BBC news is under attack from the British government. Firstly by Blair and now by Cameron. They have a political appointee in charge now and one wonders how long it will be before there are swingeing cuts to the BBC News budget.
Whether the BBC should be financed in the way it is is one question. Another is whether or not we should kowtow to the demands of Murdoch and News International.
The vast majority of news sources in this country are at one end of the political spectrum. Even the Guardian is hardly left-wing. We have no political neutral sources of news in this country. One good thing about the BBC is that it was hated by Blair and his hated by Cameron. That's got to be a positive.
I use the BBC website, though not as much as I used to since it's been redesigned. I don't find it as easy to use as it used to be.
I also use the websites of the Telegraph, Guardian, Mail, local rag, even the Sun on occasion. Drew Curtis's FARK and the Daily Mash are favourites too.
I find that an observer's view of the bias of the BBC often tells one more about the observer than the BBC. If you go over to the Guardian there will be viewers complaining that the BBC is biased to the right and that Nick Robinson was a young Conservative while the Mail seems to be waging its own war against the BBC for whatever reason from the other side.
I also use the websites of the Telegraph, Guardian, Mail, local rag, even the Sun on occasion. Drew Curtis's FARK and the Daily Mash are favourites too.
I find that an observer's view of the bias of the BBC often tells one more about the observer than the BBC. If you go over to the Guardian there will be viewers complaining that the BBC is biased to the right and that Nick Robinson was a young Conservative while the Mail seems to be waging its own war against the BBC for whatever reason from the other side.
Kermit power said:
I'm the same, although probably not for the same reason.
Just like with a printed paper, I tend to read the sports section first, and then go to the proper news. Some time ago, the BBC "redesigned" (make a fk-awful mess of) their sports section so horrendously that I started using the Telegraph to read the sports stuff, and then just clicked through to Telegraph news instead of BBC news when I'd finished with the sport.
The redesigned sports section is hideous. I can only assume it was done for tablets, but it looks horribly disjointed on a normal device. As for news, I tend to use it as a gateway, but have found I spend more time on Reuters and Euronews these days. The main annoyance for me is the insistence on comments for so many of the stories. No idea who said it, but as time goes on, I find "never read the bottom half of the internet" to be increasingly wise advice. That's not just the case for the Beeb mind you, the comments on the Telegraph coverage of the Higgs discovery were astounding.Just like with a printed paper, I tend to read the sports section first, and then go to the proper news. Some time ago, the BBC "redesigned" (make a f
k-awful mess of) their sports section so horrendously that I started using the Telegraph to read the sports stuff, and then just clicked through to Telegraph news instead of BBC news when I'd finished with the sport.Derek Smith said:
Murdoch considers the BBC News to be a major threat. The Mactaggart lecture in, I think, 2009 by little Jimmy Murdoch concentrated on BBC News. There was a leader in The Times yesterday regarding BBC News. Murdoch feels that it is costing him money.
It is hardly suprising that a commercial company which has to make a profit to exist is threatened by a competitor who is funded by forced taxation of an entire country under threat of imprisonment. I can't think of a sector where commercial companies wouldn't consider a state funded competitor a threat.Derek Smith said:
Whether the BBC News online is good bad or indifferent, it is the only news source that has the requirement to be fair. If you feel it it is not being fair then you can complain and if you have evidence then one would assume something will be done.
What is the point of a 'requirement' that has never been met? If the boss of the BBC thinks it's not fair and nothing is done, what chance has a mere tax-payer in changing the leftist agenda?http://www.standard.co.uk/news/bbc-chief-mark-thom...
Derek Smith said:
One good thing about the BBC is that it was hated by Blair and his hated by Cameron. That's got to be a positive.
Why?Yes, all the time and for the reasons listed above. I sometimes wonder whether I should hand in my PH membership as I'm very bad at getting at all troubled by the extreme and constant bias other more shouty PHers seem to be vexed by so frequently.
I don't mind the Sports pages either. Perhaps it takes a while to get used to the look of sites.
I don't mind the Sports pages either. Perhaps it takes a while to get used to the look of sites.
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