BBC News Health Contradiction?

[Aspergers_Aspie]

Does anyone think BBC Reporting Scotland: News at Seven may be contracting themselves regarding health?
They had a specialist on who mentioned advice about not drinking alcohol. Then while talking about men's Scotland's curling victory, one of the women's Scotland curling team mentioned the men's team could have sore heads.

 

[Judge]

It's true, that the BBC is a government-funded media outlet. However it's not an official publicity arm of the NHS as far as I can see.

Plus use of alcohol is legal in Britain, whether abused or not. One can publish public health advice on abstaining from alcohol, but citizens are under no obligation to follow it, given the story of all those "sore heads" from a sporting event victory.

Which reflects their objectivity as a media outlet, without attempting to pass judgment over an issue they have neither control or responsibility for. Besides, I'd much rather have a quasi-objective media than one that passes finger-wagging judgment over an entire nation. Besides, the world can always reflect on how disastrous the prohibition of alcohol was in the US in the 20s and early 30s.

 

[Marianna]

It does seem a bit mixed up-maybe it's just different opinions at play.

 

[Judge]

It does seem a bit mixed up-maybe it's just different opinions at play.

In this day and age I suspect a few media outlets relish the notion of appearing objective, regardless of what their corporate shareholders may think or believe.

In older times, broadcast and print news maintained a much greater degree of objectivity on general principle alone. Sadly something of a bygone era. I guess the integrity of being neutral doesn't garner large enough audience shares these days.

Reminds me of that incredibly cynical portrayal of broadcast news in the 1976 film, "Network".

 

[Captain Caveman]

Do not trust what you see on the BBC to be true.

 

[Aspergers_Aspie]

Repeating the same word in a news report when it was said correctly sometimes is a thing that occurs (generally not just the BBC but any TV channel news)

 

[Outdated]

It's true, that the BBC is a government-funded media outlet.

Which reflects their objectivity as a media outlet, without attempting to pass judgment over an issue they have neither control or responsibility for. Besides, I'd much rather have a quasi-objective media than one that passes finger-wagging judgment over an entire nation. Besides, the world can always reflect on how disastrous the prohibition of alcohol was in the US in the 20s and early 30s.

Similar media outlets were created in all Commonwealth countries, government owned and operated supposedly to set a standard that other commercial news services would have to hold themselves up against.

The NZBC suffered from an extreme lack of funding and was used as a political football until it collapsed in the 1970s and was sold of as a commercial venture in 1980 with the NZ Government retaining some interest in it.

The CBC seems to be a smaller and not very popular news service, possibly underfunded but I don't know enough about Canada to know that for sure.

The BBC and Australia's ABC are both major news sources and are both used as trusted fact checking sources whenever we see sensationalised stories on the commercial channels, many of which are less trustworthy than Instagram or TikTok when it comes to factual reporting.

 

[Crossbreed]

Is "sore head" dialectical for "hung over...?"