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Originally posted by wrigley
I think to understand how and why the media presents the news the way they do can come down to one thing. Corporate ownership.
The BBC is a well respected news organization in England. I think it's still independent. Their news reports are different than what's presented by American media.
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On item number one, people were making the same charges when the networks were stand-alone entities. It has been relatively recently that they were acquired by big companies.
Item number two, the BBC is a government owned, run and supported network. They had no competition at all until about thirty years ago. Thankfully, they have generally managed to stay independent from government control.
I say thankfully, because that is seldom the case with government owned networks.