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1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Aug-2018 04:45:53 EDT iona 🐝

   @porsupah Couldn't agree more with that bloke. The BBC radio coverage leading up to the Brexit referendum was confused and incoherent. Facts weren't given prominence - instead it was "he said, she said".

   Thing is, if your morning listen is the Today programme, chances are you already have a grounding in politics and would be okay without the constant reminders that "these other people think this other thing".

   1. iona 🐝 (iona@social.coop)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Aug-2018 04:58:22 EDT iona 🐝

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      @porsupah The main problem with getting rid of the 'balance' rules in broadcast media is that we'd end up with something like the US media landscape. They got rid of their political balance in the 80s and instead of lots of valid opinions being debated on air they got thousands of shitty little AM radio stations blasting Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage et al 24/7.

      We would have the same - LBC in London already skirts close with shows by Farage and Rees-Mogg etc.