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Post by elystokie on Oct 6, 2020 7:16:06 GMT
We talk of defunding the BBC because the news dept has lost it's way but ironically you only have to look at the states to see what sort of fate awaits if we do. Their news is abysmal. Still NPR does actually have some passable content but it has much less reach than the BBC. I tried watching tv over there a couple of times years ago, don't know if I happened upon the wrong channels but the constant advertising was like a pre cursor of what was to come with websites like the Daily Heil and the Sentinel, just awful.
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Post by ColonelMustard on Oct 6, 2020 9:47:45 GMT
We talk of defunding the BBC because the news dept has lost it's way but ironically you only have to look at the states to see what sort of fate awaits if we do. Their news is abysmal. Still NPR does actually have some passable content but it has much less reach than the BBC. I tried watching tv over there a couple of times years ago, don't know if I happened upon the wrong channels but the constant advertising was like a pre cursor of what was to come with websites like the Daily Heil and the Sentinel, just awful. I lived there at the time of the Bush/ Gore election, 9/11 and the period that followed. It's off the scale dis/misinformation. It makes me laugh that social media gets blamed for fake news.
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Post by dirtclod on Oct 7, 2020 14:32:02 GMT
Yes our TV [break for commercial] is tremendously annoying with the [break for commercial] continuous interruptions to either push pills [break for commercial] buy a vote, or promote another TV show. [break for commercial] And we wonder why many people in the US [break for commercial] end up with the attention span of a gnat on crack. [break for commercial] and little knowledge of what's going on [break for commercial] in the world around us.
I was at an NFL game once [break for commercial] and it was televised. All of a sudden the players were just standing around [break for commercial] and I found out that they were on commercial break. [break for commercial] They came back and did one play [break for commercial] then started standing around again! [break for commercial] Yep, another commercial break. [break for commercial] I know that this post is irritating to read [break for commercial] but it's just a sample of what it's like [break for commercial] to watch network television [break for commercial] in the US. The worst thing they ever did [break for commercial] was to allow the drug companies to advertise [break for commercial] in the mass media again. Because they have the budget [break for commercial] to overcharge for their product in order to pay for all of the commercials. [break for commercial] And now I return you to your normally scheduled programming.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Oct 7, 2020 18:35:40 GMT
Leaving aside the alleged political bias of the BBC, watching BBC1, 2 and 4 are all the better for not having ad breaks.
For that reason alone I'm happy to pay the licence fee.
I watch very little live tv purely because the ad breaks fuck up any suspense or drama that has been built up. I'd rather record it and then skip over the ads in a couple of seconds.
The thing I found with US tv is how parochial it is. Unless half of another country has disappeared in some freak incident, it's all about the US in the news.
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Post by dirtclod on Oct 7, 2020 20:57:51 GMT
Yes most of my watching is confined to mostly non-live stuff, documentaries, NetFlix stuff like that. I pay for cable (pretty much our "licensed" TV) which gives several additional channels that have interesting things on history etc. And I avoid any political TV - can't take the hit to my IQ and sanity that comes with it.
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Post by ColonelMustard on Oct 8, 2020 11:58:30 GMT
I realise it wont be everybody's cup of iced tea but I still listen/ watch 'Democracy Now' now and then. Non profit, no adds, no corporate sponsors. In fact I still enjoy listening to Pacifica Radio and KCRW in general.
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Post by Rednwhitenblue on Oct 8, 2020 17:22:20 GMT
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Post by wapiti on Oct 16, 2020 20:58:24 GMT
As a half-Yank, I would personally like to apologize for Americans who allow our imbecilic antics to escape our borders and both pollute and colonize your minds. On the other hand, when I turn on the telly, I am often confronted with an array of accents from the UK, Australia and South Africa reading and commenting on the days news, often political. Of course, Americans always think that an English accent is gloriously "interesting" and make themselves believe that such sounds are evidence of vast intelligence. WTF....we don't have enough Americans on hand to tell us what to think, we need to import them? Back in the 1970's I knew an actor from a longtime showbiz family who mostly played small supporting roles and commercials, who wanted to emigrate to Australia.......couldn't find that kind of work......they only wanted people who spoke BBC English. He didn't have a pronounced regional American accent.....just a bland generic California/Yank sound.
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