In a message dated 3/22/02 2:22:28 PM GMT Standard Time, pholden@sc.rr.com
writes:
<< Most U.S. citizens get their news from TV. There are three major
networks with nightly news and three cable networks with news 24
hours a day, all of whom are independently owned and fight for
audiences. Doesn't the government-sponsored BBC pretty much have
a monopoly on TV news in Britain? Anyway, you forgot to mention the
hundreds of local papers people read in the U.S., most of which cover
national and international news and which are not hesitant to air
differing views on their editorial pages.
>>
Dear Platt,
Monopolies vary in quality.
Some are low quality and some are high quality.
The term, 'Monopoly' is not pejorative?
The BBC has been, in large, open to scrutiny and responsible TO THE PEOPLE
and not presiding governments. The amount of friction between the BBC and
governments has, at times, (and i remember the Thatcher government as a
particularly heated period) been rather fractious.
In Thatcher's day, if i may be allowed to chomp the bit a little harder, the
BBC was dealt with by allowing private media tycoons to acquire monopolies
that were NOT open and responsible in the way the BBC is, (think Rupert
Murdock) and the result has been a marked shift towards US like values.
If an individual can privilege his/her reality through media then one may
wish to ask: 'Who's realities are being privileged and why?'
All the best,
Squonk.
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