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| Source:Channel 4 News UK- U.K. House of Commons member Harriet Herman. |
"The Chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patten insists he won't be quitting but admitted it was his task to ensure the corporation "got a grip".
From Channel 4 News UK
"Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network. Its headquarters are in London, with a National HQ[clarification needed] in Leeds, and creative hubs in Glasgow and Bristol.[1] It began its transmission on 2 November 1982, the day after Welsh language broadcaster S4C's launch. The channel was established to provide a fourth television service in the United Kingdom; at the time the only other channels were the licence-funded BBC One and BBC Two, and a single commercial broadcasting network ITV.
As someone whose not British, I see the problems with BBC News again from 3000 miles away, as being too close to the UK Government and they need to be separated so the British know they are getting what's actually news. Rather than what the Conservative Government or whoever is in charge of the United Kingdom, telling the British what they want the British to know. Freedom of speech and an independent media is critical for any democracy, whether it's a liberal democracy or a social democracy like in Britain, so the people in the country are as well informed as possible.
It is publicly owned and advertising-funded; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA),[2] the station is now owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation, a public corporation of the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport,[3] which was established in 1990 and came into operation in 1993. In 2010, Channel 4 extended service into Wales and became a UK-wide television channel."
From Wikipedia
As someone whose not British, I see the problems with BBC News again from 3000 miles away, as being too close to the UK Government and they need to be separated so the British know they are getting what's actually news. Rather than what the Conservative Government or whoever is in charge of the United Kingdom, telling the British what they want the British to know. Freedom of speech and an independent media is critical for any democracy, whether it's a liberal democracy or a social democracy like in Britain, so the people in the country are as well informed as possible.
