Should the UK follow the David Cameron's suggestion and scrap the BBC News in favour of a US style news system

Question

Currently there are rules on bias etc forced on the BBC and other news broadcasters in the UK. Should we abandon these in favour of a more partizan, and arguably more exciting, US style news? David Cameron has indicated that he would if he became prime minister.

Answer 1

It is an idea that should be considered - I amn't particulary taken with the general bias and tone in the BBC at present.  Something needs to be done to increase the quality of the news output here!

Answer 2

I would like to see less Government control on any news system - why we always have to model everything on the U.S. I have no idea.

News is either true or not.

Cannot the U.K. not think for itself.

Answer 3

Why not, if you do not like it change it back after a try.

Answer 4

No. Mind you,you can expect that from the likes of him

Answer 5

I worked 24 years for abc News - the American Broadcasting Company and can testify on oath that abc News was and is biased of a left of centre to left point of view.

You just don't get any more 'left' than such as Pierre Salinger, (the Bonapartist),  JFK's former Press Office, who was working for abc News in the 1980s at their London Bureau  and ensuring that everything was biased in favour of the IRA, which was then being financed by American money.

No - I think Cameron is off course.  TV News should be as unbiased as possible.  I say this here in UK only and not for the USA, that we have an already largely right wing press here with few exceptions.

Better to keep TV news as unbiased as possible.

Everyone knows don't they that Sir Trevor McDonald is a Tory!  True or false?

...and what of the BBC?  Is it true that it has a left wing bias?

The problem with any reportage is that bias is bound to be reflected.  

Why should we in UK  go down the American road?

What Cameron wants is to turn the entire nation into Tory thumb suckers like himself.  Frankly I am appauled at this man's complete misunderstanding of how UK works.

I don't wish to sound spiteful, but Cameron is just a boy out of school who knows nothing and thinks nothing.  

On yer bike Cameron and don't bother coming back. . . .

Answer 6

chanel 4  news at 7pm is usually worth watching

Answer 7

Hello,

(ANS) NO! NO! NO! ABSOLUTELY NOT!! we have enough US propaganda as it is.

**Why? assume that people here in the UK actually want a US style news system. I don't want a YANKIE news system, look how utterly trashy & mindless their TV & culture is anyway. No! Thanks!! YAK and the very idea of it makes me feel sick.

**Yet more dumbing down from the US!!?

**YES! Get back to TOFF LAND Cameron, I totally agree he has nothing to offer, he's full of HOT AIR just as bad as Tony Blair perhaps even worse.

Ivan.

Answer 8

No. The American TV news services are mostly abysmal garbage which foster a culture of ignorance and stupidity.  Any half-decent news service needs to be impartial and factual.  If you want 'exciting' news get a cable subscription and watch junk TV like Fox News (aka Faux Noise).

If this is really what the Cameroons think that's one more reason not to vote for them.

Answer 9

Absolutely not. The US style of news that already exists in Britain- Sky News in particular- is sensationalist, superficial, reactionary, and unwatchable.