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Originally Posted by 1andrew1

When a TV channel hires senior members of the ruling political party to interview its own ministers in place of independent professional journalists, democracy is dying. The UK needs an independent media to hold its politicians to account, not the governing party interviewing itself.

I don’t see it like that. Freedom of expression is a self defining thing.

To your point, what independent media would that be? In the case of GB News, its enemies would in any case bombard OFCOM with complaints. The playing field is in sufficiently level.

I’m no fan of the government but I’d like to see some judicial fairness here.