On the locked 'outfoxed' thread, lordsitar says 'we are so lucky we have bbc news 24... god bless the bbc'
Personally, I've always found them to be among the worst for bias, and unquestionably the worst in times of war.
Recently George Monbiot did an artciel citing some studies that examined it and found it to be the case;
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The BBC emerges very badly from these studies. The Cardiff report shows that it used US and British government sources more often than the other broadcasting networks, and used independent sources, such as the Red Cross, less often than the others.
It gave the least coverage to Iraqi casualties, and was the least likely to report Iraqi unhappiness about the invasion.
A separate study by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of news networks in five different countries showed that the BBC offered the least airtime of any broadcaster to opponents of the war: just 2% of its coverage. (Even ABC news in the United States gave them 7%).
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http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2004/07/13/greasing-up-to-power/
That said, I do love the World Service.
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