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Re:Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April by KineticLensman on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @04:35PM (#10897712)
> BBC also is state sponsored, but generally considered to be trustworthy.

Brit here: The BBC is state-funded, but it's output is not state-driven. The news team (IMHO) generally takes an editorial view that is to the left of the current Tory government. For once I think the BBC is to the right of the current Labour opposition, whose new leadership is the furthest left it has been for a generation. And perhaps worryingly non-electable to people who are mildly left-of-centre.

My current approach to getting the UK news is to interpolate between the Guardian (pro-Labour, but less so of its current leadership) and the Telegraph (Torygraph).

Re:Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April by mahranch on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @09:00PM (#10899153)
> The BBC is state-funded, but it's output is not state-driven.

It's amazing how many people don't understand this fact. You'll see people on reddit compare the BBC to RussiaToday or Xinhua. The latter two are literally government run agencies that specifically exist to push their country's narrative of world events out to the rest of the world. The BBC is government owned but not government ran, there's a massive difference.

Re:Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April by ZenoArrow on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @07:04PM (#10898682)
> "worryingly non-electable"

I find it baffling that people still believe this rhetoric, especially after Corbyn winning the Labour leadership election by a huge margin. The whole 'unelectable' thing certainly gets repeated enough in the media, but I'd hoped more people would've seen through the concerted effort to attack him by now.

Re:Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April by KineticLensman on Thursday January 14, 2016 @04:12AM (#10900307)
Yes. The BBC isn't pro-govt but it isn't neutral either. IMO