I deleted your post because it was in violation of open forum rules, no profanities... The Arena is allowed unfiltered discussion, the open forum does not...
What do you imagine was deleted? Although I have noticed your TDS is bleeding out of the Arena into the main forum more and more. Might want to turn the 'news' off for awhile.
I owe you an apology Max. I'm sorry, please forgive me for accusing you of deleting my post. I am sincerely sorry. I should have known that you wouldn't delete a post without some form of discussion with me about the issue. My emotions got the better of me and I jumped to the wrong conclusion. Not an excuse by any means
Had I known I certainly wouldn't have accused you of the deletion. Again, I'm sorry.
Apology accepted. I was pretty shocked- for a moment, I actually thought someone else broke in and was posting using your login.
I would never attempt to delete something just because I disagree with someone. But there are many people in the world that would, unfortunately.
I've been a member of this forum for almost 12 years now and I have almost 6k posts. In all that time I've never had to have a post deleted, until now.
You didn't think that perhaps you could have afforded me a heads up on this, T? Maybe a quick PM saying that my post was deleted because of my use of profanity? Or maybe, even better, a PM asking me to edit my post otherwise it will vanish?
Normally when you punish someone for breaking the rules the process works much better when that person is aware that they have broken the rules and what the reason is for said punishment. Wouldn't you agree, T?
Of course I could have given you warning before removing the vulgar outburst, but I choose to be silent as a test to see how you would react...
If I may step in for a moment. I don't know anyone here all the well yet but I will say this. With these trying times, and with the powers that be constantly bickering with each other instead of coming up with a way to help the general public, now isn't the time for the general public to be at arms with each other. I would suggest we all take a moment to let emotions settle, remind ourselves that it's hard to get tone and meaning through text (something about a lack of inflection through speech being pesky) and just find ways to be supportive of those that have access to these forums. From what I've been able to read through when I have some free time from my 6 day work weeks, this community is pretty cool and very helpful. I'd hate to see a stressful situation break apart some relations built through the threads on this site.
I'll put my soap box away for now, carry on as y'all see fit. Be safe out there in the real world and keep the shiny side up
Back to the subject of "neutral" news, I'm surprised that you find the BBC to be biased. I don't often see the BBC that y'all get in the USA but here they have a mandate to be as neutral as possible w.r.t. the news. As a consequence we constantly hear that the BBC is left biased and the BBC is right biased and both the left and right agree that the BBC is against them.
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What I really dislike about our TV news is the commercialism involved.
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OK, I'm finished venting, thanks for the forum..back to virus talk folks..
I guess that is mostly directed at me, since Brian said he finds it [BBC] mostly unbiased. I'll admit that I don't watch the the BBC America version of the news, but I do read the BBC news on the BBC app on my phone. I have no way of knowing if I am receiving the same thing on that APP as I would if I resided in the UK. If it is in fact biased, I'll agree with you that it is nowhere near as biased as the most biased of the main stream media here regardless of the left/right direction of lean.
However since, on the whole, the Government of the UK is slightly to the left of the U.S. (I will add IMO here in case some disagree)
then it would seem that if it is considered neutral there, that it would be slightly left biased here. Am I using faulty logic? ..or worse no logic?
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Based on what I have seen over here I would lump Fox and CNN together in the bin marked "Politically biased with frequent fabrication" which in my opinion makes them not worth my time. I regularly peruse a variety of internationally available news services, from Aljazeera to Sky News to try to see the world from other peoples points of view. Listening to and trying to understand both sides of any issue can often be a real eye opener.
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Why would I want to do that especially since I would probably consider their 'point of view' wrong.If you choose to listen to one source for your news, then we have nothing further to discuss. You have made up your mind and are convinced that your side are right and that's an end of it. Personally I try to keep an open mind and don't believe in extremes in anything outside of the basic laws of physics.
y'all are one of the more right leaning countries in the "western world".
If you choose to listen to one source for your news, then we have nothing further to discuss. You have made up your mind and are convinced that your side are right and that's an end of it. Personally I try to keep an open mind and don't believe in extremes in anything outside of the basic laws of physics.
As for the BBC being left leaning from the US's point of view, most probably, but then y'all are one of the more right leaning countries in the "western world". The BBC is far from perfect but until recently it remained mostly free of political interference. Unfortunately that may soon change if they get forced to go fully commercial.
Here in the Colonies NPR, National Public Radio, and PBS, Public Broadcasting System, are both funded with taxpayer monies.
They both are overtly left leaning.
I as a taxpayer do not have a say on how my money is spent to fund them.
I don't think you are getting a bias free BBC just because it's not influenced by capitalist advertising dollars.