I read the TV guide on occasion to see if there is anything I would like to watch. Only digging for Britain interested me since before Christmas. I no longer bother with GW when Carol's program is so much better. I read and listen to the news on the radio and have access to Disney and Netflix which I don't watch either. From my experience, the BBC do advertising, it's just their own stuff they advertise. I think news, local news, weather and radio should be free. You can pay for strictly and bake off but I'm never going to watch anything like that. So I won't be paying for it. I've not watched TV for ages now and my life has only improved.
Where do you get your news from and which sources do you trust?
Edited to add:
A newspaper - typically all are biased in some way - cost what?..about £0.5 a day? That equates to circa £180 p.a. For £160, the beeb provides its content. BUT it can only do that with bulk licence fees.
@steveTu I read the I newspaper, I also have access to all the British papers online. We watch French news also and take everything with a large bucket of salt.
Not if you read it online. Also due to the BBC not catering for my viewing tastes, I'd rather read. I don't object to paying were it worth it. But I don't like panel shows, contests, Mrs browns boys type comedy, celebrities, .... I could go on. I don't like David Attenboroughs style of presenting so although I like the subject matter, I don't watch the program. The way the BBC dramatised every subject matter to add excitement suggests we aren't intelligent enough to just take on knowledge. This is all just an opinion and I'm sure many will disagree but it's my justification for not watching TV.
I rarely watch tv news … I’ve seen enough horror in my lifetime. I don’t need the pictures any more … words are enough.
I listen to the BBC news and current affairs programmes on the radio … I read a broad spectrum of newspaper and current affairs websites, not all UK based.
Those who know us will have gathered that @WonkyWomble and I share a family tendency to take salt with most things. 😉
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I don't follow that. If you then don't trust (isn't that what 'with a pinch of salt' means?) your sources where does that leave you?
The net, as is known, is no different to media in general. In the past, people with a left wing bias read such-and-such and people with a right wing bias read so-and-so. But you knew the bias - you created your own bias bubble, but were at least aware that you were doing it. The net magnifies and obfuscates the bubble - as when you search, it presents what it thinks you want to read - so it learns your biases and presents things it thinks you'll click on. But then you have potentially no knowledge of the bias of what's being presented. You assume you're being fed balanced opinion.
To me, if proven trusted sources vanish, then it becomes a lottery as to what to trust. The net based media (which is the future) with the ability to deepfake, becomes a black hole for the 'truth'. Trump and Boris's truths become their version of the truth - and no longer lies.
Am with you Wonky and Dove. The BBC do advertise in their own way. Mainly ITV for me,but download cutting out the adverts. Dislike the same things as you, Wonky,plus soaps. Why do Eastenders and Coronation street have to be on Christmas Day. I thought comedy was meant to be funny. We have Netflix shared with our daughter,and we share her Amazon prime. I personally am a huge fan of Sky Atlantic,Scandi, French German, subtitles.Walter presents. means I can watch them, without the sound when the old man's gone to bed. We watch a lot of crime, wildlife, archaeology, on sky.
Which is why I read the I newspaper as its politically impartial. The rest I take with a pinch of salt and like with everything I interact with, I come to my own conclusions. I'm not on any social media other than this. On the subject of the BBC What I find amazing is that everyone in Britain has been sold a rebranded version of come dancing! Angela Rippon has been robbed! (That shows the era I remember it from!)
I would prefer it to be like Channel 4…ads if you opt for free, but you can pay a sub for no ads. There are occasionally things I want to watch on BBC but not often enough for me to find the licence fee worth it.
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Only digging for Britain interested me since before Christmas.
I no longer bother with GW when Carol's program is so much better. I read and listen to the news on the radio and have access to Disney and Netflix which I don't watch either.
From my experience, the BBC do advertising, it's just their own stuff they advertise.
I think news, local news, weather and radio should be free. You can pay for strictly and bake off but I'm never going to watch anything like that. So I won't be paying for it.
I've not watched TV for ages now and my life has only improved.
I don't object to paying were it worth it. But I don't like panel shows, contests, Mrs browns boys type comedy, celebrities, .... I could go on.
I don't like David Attenboroughs style of presenting so although I like the subject matter, I don't watch the program. The way the BBC dramatised every subject matter to add excitement suggests we aren't intelligent enough to just take on knowledge.
This is all just an opinion and I'm sure many will disagree but it's my justification for not watching TV.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
On the subject of the BBC
What I find amazing is that everyone in Britain has been sold a rebranded version of come dancing! Angela Rippon has been robbed! (That shows the era I remember it from!)