29-01-2023, 07:45 PM
(29-01-2023, 07:38 PM)Stockland Hillman Wrote: LBC feel like a neutral entity to you?
These are in main page this Sunday at LBC - the items the editorial team have chosen to highlight:
- Psychotherapist reveals cause of 'incompetent rage' in incels 'like Boris Johnson'
- James O'Brien: Brexit fallout warns rest of Europe against giving power to 'demagogues, racists and idiots'
Both stories from broadcast content. Both pretty extreme and biased and carried without much challenge or context
This highlights the problem - where content agreed with personal opinions it's "neutral" when it differs its biased and shouldn't be allowed.
The actual reality is GB News is a News/Talk broadcaster regulated by Ofcom. It has a position right of centre and funding from people alighned to that world view. It's easy to over dramatise the channel becouse it's a talk format as well as a news one - very common in the world right or left politically but we are unused to in UK.
LBC has never been neutral. It meets Ofcom rules by having a broad range of views throughout the day which meets the criteria.
The main difference between it and GB News is that it'll give more airtime to mainstream or left-of-centre viewpoints as much as those who believe in what GBN and TalkTV believe in. I'm sure LBC has give the trans debate airtime which GBN have also done.
Nick Ferrari for example has the ability to still give his viewpoint which may be right-of-centre and then listen, James O'Brien will dissect a guest or caller's viewpoint and then explain why they're wrong or right. On GBN, they have token left-wing guests who are used as battering rams for their more extreme interviewers like Dan Wootton.