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Originally Posted by becca
When I've lived/worked in the U.S. I've been surprised at how overtly partisan radio and newspapers can get there. Actually I've long heard about British papers being "hard right" or "militant-union" etc. too, and I always wonder what kind of person knowingly supports a source of information that is deliberately skewed in any way. Having two extremes hollering/blaming/heckling as it were is not my idea of balance, nor is say giving equal time to one scientist of thousands saying there is a climate change and one out of one saying there is no such thing, and if you're lucky maybe one out of twenty saying there is but is not human effected enough to count. To get real information, full information, seems to be a large problem in these times.
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Sorry, to be clear, I meant television news. Generally BBC, ITN and Sky News each remain largely impartial. In fact BBC news is required to be politically neutral by law. Printed news is a whole different thing- I can't think of any newspapers that are genuinely impartial, though Financial Times and the Independent come pretty close.