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mwooldri

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29. And that's why this ex-pat's radio is stuck on BBC.

Sun Jan 22, 2017, 11:48 AM

Jan 2017

I may be here in the USA but I turn to the BBC first for news. I'll balance it out with reading other news sources but almost always BBC reporting is accurate, fair, and strikes a political balance and constantly takes a neutral viewpoint. They work with the UK equivalent of the fairness doctrine day in day out on the domestic networks, and as such this translates to their international reporting.

This will mean that when the government cuts funding for public broadcasting we will have to support our public broadcasters, even if all they do is relay more foreign programming from the likes of the CBC, BBC, and more.

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