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by rvz·6y ago·view on hn ↗
Good question. The BBC cannot help itself to post clickbatish fake-news level articles to drive up clicks to its non-UK audience due to competition from its profitable rivals.

Unfortunately, us UK folks are paying our taxes for this nonsensical and biased garbage in which everything from cat memes and 16 yr old tech billionaires is somehow 'newsworthy'. It's now gotten worse as the editors are now trawling over Twitter in search of a story to post or quote in their articles.

I did the right thing and burned that TV license and I couldn't have been more happier. :)

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Is there a considerable difference between content that’s served to UK versus non-UK audiences, even for global news? The BBC news app used to be one of my more reliable sources of general news until a remarkable drop in quality over the last 2 years. It’s all phrenological social commentary, barely disguised left-wing moralizing and cheap lifestyle pieces now. On the other hand the BBC World Service radio broadcast has somehow managed to remain one of the few non-editorialized pure news programmes still standing, at least for the main news segment at the top of the hour.