I do read the Daily Mail but that doesn't make me some kind of right wing extremist, any more than readers of left leaning papers are necessarily supporters of Corbyn and Momentum.
I laugh at some of the content because it is so biased, but virtually all news media is tainted to a greater or lesser degree by personal opinion. I haven't noticed dear old auntie BBC being exactly neutral over the past several years.
I've heard folk say the BBC is biased towards Labour, and I've heard folk say it's biased toward the Tories. Sounds like they've got the balance about right to me.
Even without the statistical analysis, you can work out what the print media are doing. Back in the midst of the Leveson Inquiry, a lot was said about the extent to which UK politicians are lobbied by the owners of the big media companies. None of them has even remotely similar access to European politicians, so it is absolutely in their interest for the UK to leave the EU. That substantially increases their degree of influence over policy and law making. The Guardian is famously left leaning, the Independent tries to be independent and the Times has a slightly better editorial independence. The others are very much inclined to print the stories their owners (and some editors) wish to see, with little journalistic independence. So if you read the FT, the Times, the Independent and the Guardian (and, not or), you will get a reasonable cross section of opinion. In the others you'll get a very skewed view and much more rhetoric than fact. The BBC gets itself hung up on 'balance' sometimes. In its mission to always present the opposing argument, it sometimes gives undue precedence to minority views, making them seem more mainstream than they really are. Climate Change is the clearest case. By always allowing the 'Climate Change deniers' equivalence of air time, the extent to which the scientific community agree about what is happening and why has been clouded in the minds of much of the public. It's done pretty well on Brexit but been rather hampered by the fact that most MPs originally voted Remain, so it's difficult to get a 'Leaver' and a 'Remainer' in every political broadcast without having the same MPs turning up all the time - hence the recent fuss about Question Time panels. They've done less well on the Vox Pops.
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Raisingirl , I do agree , when I was at work I use to read different papers to get a balanced view , don’t bother any more Agree the BBC is so balanced it has gone very PC in my opinion
'PC' and 'balanced' are absolutely not the same thing. PC is giving more weight and support to the fashionable opinions of the day and, in many cases, denying access to others with a less PC but still valid view. That isn't suggesting that climate change deniers should be given equal time with rational thinkers.
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Scrolling daily through the front pages on the BBC news site, perhaps only the ones that annoyed me registered.
The Guardian is famously left leaning, the Independent tries to be independent and the Times has a slightly better editorial independence. The others are very much inclined to print the stories their owners (and some editors) wish to see, with little journalistic independence. So if you read the FT, the Times, the Independent and the Guardian (and, not or), you will get a reasonable cross section of opinion. In the others you'll get a very skewed view and much more rhetoric than fact.
The BBC gets itself hung up on 'balance' sometimes. In its mission to always present the opposing argument, it sometimes gives undue precedence to minority views, making them seem more mainstream than they really are. Climate Change is the clearest case. By always allowing the 'Climate Change deniers' equivalence of air time, the extent to which the scientific community agree about what is happening and why has been clouded in the minds of much of the public. It's done pretty well on Brexit but been rather hampered by the fact that most MPs originally voted Remain, so it's difficult to get a 'Leaver' and a 'Remainer' in every political broadcast without having the same MPs turning up all the time - hence the recent fuss about Question Time panels. They've done less well on the Vox Pops.
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Agree the BBC is so balanced it has gone very PC in my opinion