Quote Originally Posted by Philipvs Vallindervs Calicvla View Post
Clearly, you do not understand how the BBC is run. The BBC is established by statute, but it is independantly run and payed for by the license fee. Your government is far more involved with your news media bacuse the two are in each other's pockets.

If the BBC is a good thing and America's news media is a squalid cesspit, both things you have acknowledged, then you should copy the BBC - whole cloth if necessary. To do otherwise for some abstract and false feeling that it is "un American" is stupidity of the highest order, same goes for the NHS.

We saw what your unensured look like on our TV's (we pay the license fee and get Chanel 4), my father's response was litterally "my God, it's like a third world country."

You have Third World healthcare and news organisations about as reputable of those controlled by Vladamir Putin.

I think you should do something about that, because the "market" hasn't worked and it never will for news because people will only pay for what they want to hear.
Heh, that is quite a lot of condescension based on relatively little source material. If we're looking for models to improve our own systems, neither the BBC nor the NHS would be at the top of the list, as both come with significant pitfalls of their own. Not to mention the fact that we already have a BBC for all intents and purposes in NPR, which comes with essentially the same strengths, weaknesses, and biases that accompany the BBC in Britain.