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Re:Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April by ZenoArrow on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @05:30PM (#10898134)
The BBC is not seen as a trustworthy news source by all in the UK either, but its biases are harder to spot than some other outlets. Generally speaking, you only get a clear picture of their news manipulation when you're on the opposing side of the messages they put out.

To give a recent example, there was a story a week or two ago where they held back on an interview with a politician they knew was going to resign until just before a parliamentary debate, which appears to have been a move to undermine the leader of this politician's party, which they've been making efforts to discredit.

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?p=81049649

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Re:Al Jazeera America to Shut Down in April by paublyrne on Thursday January 14, 2016 @04:10AM (#10900298)
Although there is no such thing as complete objectivity in news reporting, the BBC news department tends to try to give all political parties an equally hard time, with the possible exception of extreme right parties like UKIP, who they are a little harder on.
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