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Originally Posted by Sephiroth
Well, you didn’t. You said ‘an independent media’ - different things. What you also didn’t say was ‘…an independent media (as in not the BBC) …’ .
But you were clearly pointing at journalists, so I understand your point, at least in respect of Fox. But if the lefties would have their way, there’d be no voice for, e.e. Farage. That’s not democratic.
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I said both, thereby confusing matters!
I mean independent of the government which GB News cannot be with its MP presenters. It's healthy to have other broadcasters than the BBC which can be swayed less by government.
In terms of balance, outside the more tightly-regulated PSBs, you have the centre right Sky News then two right-wing channels: Talk TV and GB News. If GB News went out of business, I'm confident that Talk TV would employ Farage asap.
In terms of that broadcasting landscape, there are no equivalent channels on the left at the moment. So you could argue that it's undemocratic that the likes of Jeremy Corbyn are being kept off our screens.