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Zero999:
--- Quote from: james_s on September 16, 2021, 02:12:54 am ---I'm not opposed to the idea of public TV, as far as I know it isn't a propaganda channel or something. A TV license may have even made sense back when a lot of people didn't have a TV but when it is assumed that everyone has one then it may as well just be a tax so people don't have to think about it. As someone who doesn't watch broadcast TV and hasn't for probably 20 years I would be highly annoyed at having to pay a fee to support the station. If there was a station that had no ads and no on-screen logos I might actually watch it though. Unfortunately even if you can get away from ads, you won't get away from those worthless obnoxious logos.
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The BBC in the UK doesn't have and advertising, except for its own programmes. Unfortunately it is horribly biased and full of propaganda, but it reflects the political views of the people running it, more than the government. I have paid my TV licence up until April this year, but will not renew it when it's due. I no longer watch it and I'm sick of its left-wing propaganda and the way it lies by omission, by choosing not to report things which don't suit its agenda.
In some respects the news is better in the US. If you watch Fox, you know it's Tump loving, whilst CNN is the opposite.
Cerebus:
It is a truism that the BBC is politically biased to the opposite of what one's personal political prejudices are. I would suggest that precisely because right-wingers say the BBC is full of leftists and that left-wingers say it's full of smug middle class Tory voters that it's probably doing quite a good job of treading the thin line where it isn't biased. I would however agree that BBC news, in fact all television news reporting, is remarkably shallow.
Zero999:
--- Quote from: Cerebus on September 16, 2021, 02:18:10 pm ---It is a truism that the BBC is politically biased to the opposite of what one's personal political prejudices are. I would suggest that precisely because right-wingers say the BBC is full of leftists and that left-wingers say it's full of smug middle class Tory voters that it's probably doing quite a good job of treading the thin line where it isn't biased. I would however agree that BBC news, in fact all television news reporting, is remarkably shallow.
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That's funny because I'm in the centre, so should think the BBC are not biased, but I do. Take for example how they've reported on the BLM riots last year, which were portrayed to be "peeceful demonstrations" inspite of all the vandalism. There was no mention made, of the neo-Marxist ideology behind the BLM organisation, who were shown in a positive light, when in reality many black people themselves, dislike them. Then there's the lack of coverage of the anti-lockdown demonstrations, which went on throughout the country, between March last year and July 2021.
I could post links to their website, where they promote contensious topics such as critical race theory, without questioning them, but I don't want to be accused of turning this into a political thread. I have no issue with the BBC writing about contraversial topics, but it should be done in an impartial manner, which they've failing to do.
IDEngineer:
--- Quote from: Zero999 on September 16, 2021, 04:11:20 pm ---I have no issue with the BBC writing about contraversial topics, but it should be done in an impartial manner, which they've failing to do.
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Mass media cannot be impartial because it would break their business model. People don't get passionate about centrism or moderation. Media is funded by advertising, which targets likely buyers of the product being advertised, who are emotionally driven, and strong emotions are better drivers of purchasing decisions.
My $0.02 on this subtopic: I consume "reporting" from an intentionally wide spectrum of political viewpoints, to keep track of what the crazies are thinking. The hilarious part is that the extremes on all sides of the spectrum sound way more alike than different. There's just as many batfreak crazy conspiracy theories, just as many "for your own good" "because we know better" desired infringements on individual liberties, on the left and right and up and down as anywhere else. If you invert the polarities and change a few nouns you couldn't tell one from another. Yet they all think "the others" are evil incarnate. News flash: The weirdos could substitute for each other pretty easily. And because they are loud and flamboyant, they get all the news coverage.
Cerebus:
--- Quote from: IDEngineer on September 16, 2021, 04:53:02 pm ---
--- Quote from: Zero999 on September 16, 2021, 04:11:20 pm ---I have no issue with the BBC writing about contraversial topics, but it should be done in an impartial manner, which they've failing to do.
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Mass media cannot be impartial because it would break their business model. People don't get passionate about centrism or moderation. Media is funded by advertising, which targets likely buyers of the product being advertised, who are emotionally driven, and strong emotions are better drivers of purchasing decisions.
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You seem to have completely missed the point that the BBC, which is the broadcaster being discussed, is NOT funded by advertising.
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