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Are there reasons to criticize the BBC? Yes. For example, their whole Devil's advocate/false balance approach to reporting. Everything has a "matter-of-fact" feel to it that even if what reporting is factually true, it lacks the nuance and complexities of the issue at hand.
They have a lot of bias against migrants and trans people. They have this both-sides-ism where they give opposing sides equal validity even when one is quite loony. The result? Incredible surges in transphobic politics and TERFism and xenophobic rhetoric and the rise of the far right under Nigel Farage. Sometimes foreign news tends to be of a better quality than domestic, but they are plagued with the same issues as other news sources. Funding cuts are something else they deal with as despite their slow move to a nationalist perspective, the Government still questions their purpose, and so they often try to appease those groups.
There's a lot to criticize about the BBC
Why does it seem like tankies repeat talking points ad verbatim? If I have a penny every time I hear BBC for being biased and unreliable, I would have already retired. What do they think of RT or any Chinese media? I always say that these terminally online tankies are extremely sad people who are only larping as communists to feel a sense of belonging in a group. They're literally just a gang doing things just for the fun of it.
From what I understand, Tankies are okay with RT and Chinese state media.
As someone who has been accused of being a tankie, I view RT and Chinese state media as roughly equal in level of bias and reliability to western corporate and state media.
All media tends to be more or less factual, the main difference is in what facts are reported and how the facts are talked about.
You can consume media from all of the available sources as long as you recognize what the biases are and why some sources are better for some topics and worse for others.
why tho? Liberal media make their reporting transparent and allow you to contact them if there are any mistakes they make
It's not about factuality, it's about what stories are chosen and how those stories are written. Liberal media's primary motivation is to make money by putting your eyes on advertisements (which they mostly do by trying to outrage you). Since liberal media is largely all owned and operated by capitalists, their secondary motivation is to propagandize capitalism to their audience. Therefore, liberal media promotes stories that 1) largely don't interest me, and 2) are promoting a world view that is blatantly against my own self-interest.
Edit; I’ll add that I don’t think that RT or Chinese state media is necessarily for my interest, but I do think they can be valuable just for the different perspectives and attention to different topics. For example, western media tells me all about the terrible shit Russia and China do, and non-western media tells me about all the terrible shit the west does. I take each side with a grain of salt, and end up with a more complete worldview than if I just listened to one.
I mean, they're literally state media. They're ok on some subjects, but do have various biases.