BBC (Public Service Broadcasting)
Oral Answers to Questions — Culture, Media and Sport
2:30 pm
Barry Sheerman (Huddersfield, Labour)
Certainly I recognise that the BBC is still a great national institution and I am usually a great supporter of it. However, if we have a public sector broadcaster that is funded by the licence fee, should it not be more independent in its news gathering? Personally, I am sickened by the number of times we have to hear what the papers say and by how the lead from all that Conservative press outside is slavishly followed on the BBC. Why can it not get its own news?
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Alex Robinson
Posted on 11 Nov 2008 9:39 am (Report this annotation)
The Papers are often reporting what the BBC News teams are also reporting. Most news items are provided by Reuters or other independent reporting services.
It is a sad fact therefore that any news reported is common to every TV Network and newspaper.
It is also a sad fact therefore that it is not just 'Conservative Press' but actual news events that can not be altered that the labour MP for Huddersfield doesn't like to hear.