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Broadcasters in the UK are forced to be fair and impartial in their news coverage, in order to hold a licence. The rules come under section 5 of the regulator Ofcom’s codes covering due impartiality, accuracy and opinions. Similar rules did exist in America, but they were thrown out more than 30 years ago, when Ronald Reagan was president, and attempts since to revive the legislation have always stalled on the altar of the first amendment, the right to free speech.
So in the US you can say what you like within the law – your opinion is protected and you can use all your power and might to beam that opinion right across the land, without giving any counter-arguments, without reporting the opposing point of view. Opinion can be dressed up as news.
For the past 40 years, I’ve taken television rather seriously. Week by week, I went through my copy of the Radio Times with a pen, circling the programmes I wanted to watch, often scribbling notes.
However, these days I can scarcely be bothered, so woefully unimaginative are the offerings from the two principal broadcasters and, in particular, the BBC, which should know better.
I still think of television as an object of brightness and joy, the way it used to be when I was growing up, but I only have to look at the new Christmas schedules to see how far it’s fallen.
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