Comments on: Why Does the British Media Cover News Better than American Media?

By: | Comm455/History of Journalism

| Comm455/History of Journalism — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 04:17:33 +0000

[...] states in his blog, “I think the British media believes that its readers actually are intelligent, whereas the [...]

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 18:37:00 +0000

Thats wrong. Have you not been reading about the hacking scandal

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:26:00 +0000

The issue about broadcast news in Britain and the USA, is that, by law, British broadcast media whether on radio or television, has to remain politically neutral, there are even more punitive rules during an election and political parties are only given 5 minutes each to advertise on about 2 or three channels throughout the entire election.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:18:15 +0000

I think it’s that the American producers think that Americans won’t get the jokes. They think that we don’t have the attention span to actually make judgements ourselves, so they hit us over the head during the remakes. Fox News is bad, but i’ll go even farther. All cable news is worthless, whether its Fox, MSNBC, CNN, CNBC. It’s soundbite after soundbite with no real content.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:18:00 +0000

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:46:16 +0000

Yeh I noticed this, in the UK, we basically get all of the US versions to all the shows (whyyyy?), when I watch them I can see all the things you point out.
One thing I dislike is that all the networks take British shows and remake them for American audience, either thinking they can take more credit for it or think that their audiences wouldn’t understand any of the jokes, the really sad thing is they rarely last one series(the Office is an exception but they completely lost the tone of the original), just show the original programme, I’m sure it would last longer, and could provide some international shows, which when I go to America on the odd holiday, never see other than on HBO.
Also the TV news I completely agree with you when I watched Fox News and laughed you could see the bias literally pour off the screen the anti democrat drivel they spew… Fox news honestly is bollocks.
watch this, basically reinforcing your view and quite funny and made by the BBC so you’ll like it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aEk864YrKw

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:46:00 +0000

By: Nathan Lustig

Nathan Lustig — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 05:16:12 +0000

new blog post: why does the british media cover news better than the american media? http://bit.ly/4Wiuf2