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Channel 4 News
What do you think of the News? Have your say
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Elizabeth Williams
25th Feb 02
I find it difficult to make a point such as Jon Snow's
(whom I very much admire) without using a concrete example. I mean,
Jon Snow says that up to a point it is impossible to avoid bias...
Let's use a concrete example: crime. The Tories claim that it is impossible
to make the connection between crime and poverty. Admittedly, Labour's
motto is let's be tough on crime and on the causes of crime but the
reality is that they do nothing about the causes of crime. Whether
there is a connection between crime and poverty or not has nothing
to do with either Labour or Tory. Such connection, or lack of connection,
is objective and I should think that it pertains to the media to show
up such connection, or lack of it. Don't you agree? The same with
every other issue: either you can pinpoint the causes of the 11th
of September or you cannot. If you cannot, don't pretend you can,
but if you can, do. By definition there is no bias in the objective
truth. The media often profess to keep us informed. Be brave: try
to get us to the truth...
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Paul Corbett
26th Feb 02
I'd just like to say 'Keep up the good work' to all the
crew at Channel 4. Your daily news/current affairs programme is the
only British News programme that can honestly claim to be objective
and unbiased. I would also like to encourage Channel 4 to keep showing
cutting edge programmes and documentaries like 'Unreported World'
and others. It is refreshing to see intelligent and eye opening TV
in a world of dull soaps and soul destroying american talk shows.
I appreciate the need for programmes like Friends and Big Brother
to bring in the cash but as long as you keep on the way you are you
will remain by far the best TV station around
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Bruce Paton
4th March 02
Jon Snow always seems decent and fair-minded, but his
position of absolute relativism sadly ignores the very real and growing
problems of propaganda, spin, disinformation, decreasing level of
investigation and true bias in British news reporting (why, for instance,
is it only Israel that in Channel 4 news terms 'retaliates' - i.e.,
is implicitly the victim of aggression, when most of the evidence
suggests the opposite?)
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