The Americanisation of British News
It's pretty futile to consider Britain as anything more than a satellite state for America these days... even our news is converging towards the orthodoxy regarding certain controversial topics... in particular, the Israel and Palestine conflict. We've known for a long time that mainstream American news is biased and misleading. It is perhaps vanity, or wishful thinking, to assume that the British media is not similarly compromised.
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Too true. Following the war from the other side of the Atlantic (in Minneapolis), and reading the British press online, makes me regret what's happened to the concept of a free press. Too many of my fellow Americans can't be bothered to even watch TV news. A smaller minority might thumb through a newspaper once in a while. I think the same disinterest will creep into the UK as editors give in to the pressures of their advertisers and skew the news to the "lowest common denominator." I think what has kept your journalism good, up until now, is your much more educated population. Here, most people sit in their cars plugged into their iPods and phones, on the Tube most people are reading. Even in the depths on Cornwall or the pubs of Leeds you can see newspapers being read and you can have an informed conversation about the day's news. Here, good luck finding a shop that sells the town's one newspaper or anyone more interested in the world than sports. Rant over, but you're still better off.
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