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Has Brexit made you stop watching the news?

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  • #52
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,955 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    Wanderer78 wrote: »
    I think you ll find all sources are agenda driven

    They always were, to some degree. Media owners in the past always used the platform to advocate towards their preference so again that isn't new. Also, you can't be a human capable of insightful analysis but yet be completely impartial on the subject. Question is, how well can you hide your personal views and not let them consciously or otherwise affect your reporting.

    But now, with social media and the spotlight that many news reporters and presenters are under, they are routinely accused of holding a bias but it rarely is explicitly so. What is Tony Connelly's agenda when reporting on Brexit? Do we think he has an agenda? When Huw Edwards reads out the news at BBC News at ten, do we think he has an agenda?

    The BBC has been accused by both sides in the Brexit debate as being rampantly biased in favour of the other, does this mean they are in fact impartial and that it is the bias of the individual which is somewhat evident?

    Many and varied sources of info is indeed the best way but not everyone will try to inform themselves in this way.


  • #53
    Spencerfreeman
    Registered Users Posts: 692 ✭✭✭Spencerfreeman


    Tell me how wrote: »
    They always were, to some degree. Media owners in the past always used the platform to advocate towards their preference so again that isn't new. Also, you can't be a human capable of insightful analysis but yet be completely impartial on the subject. Question is, how well can you hide your personal views and not let them consciously or otherwise affect your reporting.

    But now, with social media and the spotlight that many news reporters and presenters are under, they are routinely accused of holding a bias but it rarely is explicitly so. What is Tony Connelly's agenda when reporting on Brexit? Do we think he has an agenda? When Huw Edwards reads out the news at BBC News at ten, do we think he has an agenda?

    The BBC has been accused by both sides in the Brexit debate as being rampantly biased in favour of the other, does this mean they are in fact impartial and that it is the bias of the individual which is somewhat evident?

    Many and varied sources of info is indeed the best way but not everyone will try to inform themselves in this way.
    I can't comment on RTE news as I can't abide their bias as illustrated by their water protest coverage, so I don't watch anymore.
    The main BBC news at is old news to me by the time they broadcast.
    They do seem to have shown bias in the brexit coverage by giving a lot airtime to fringe individuals like Anna Soubry who actually represents few politically.


  • #54
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    I just heard about another extension. No idea why but will this shambles ever end? How can anyone care anymore? I need more podcasts...


  • #55
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    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    In terms of tv, Brexit is to today what the North was to my teenager years.

    Saturation tv coverage - except there's no English John Hume to come on tv every day to talk about "an eye for an eye makes everybody blind" and that "we need to find an agreement between our divided people".

    England is unhappy enough now to need hope/heroes, to paraphrase Bertolt Brecht.


  • #56
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,021 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    Snow Garden wrote: »
    I just heard about another extension. No idea why but will this shambles ever end? How can anyone care anymore? I need more podcasts...

    ... and yet another lie we can attribute to Boris.

    How many times is that now thats he gone against what he said he'd do?


  • #57
    Snow Garden
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭Snow Garden


    NIMAN wrote: »
    ... and yet another lie we can attribute to Boris.

    How many times is that now thats he gone against what he said he'd do?

    I have no idea. I honestly switch over when Brexit is mentioned. I am beyond caring, I just wish it was over and we could move on.


  • #58
    Spencerfreeman
    Registered Users Posts: 692 ✭✭✭Spencerfreeman


    Catch the facts and a good discussion with an intelligent Irish bloke now on you tube LBC Nigel Farage live.


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