i heard the news today, oh boy..

[flavius_m]

I don't listen to the Today programme on BBC Radio 4 much these days. I suspect that may be, overall, a good thing, for my stress levels and possibly my blood pressure. I do however listen to their podcasts -then I choose what to listen to. The one exception is when I drive to my school in Watford on Tuesday mornings. Then there is at least one

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[zenithed]

I'm giving up on Today until after the new government honeymoon is over and they start tearing themselves to shreds (so in about six months).

I'm not sure it takes a right-wing approach, per se, but it's heavily influenced by whatever the newspaper narrative is that day, and surprise surprise, nearly all of the newspapers are right-wing or owned by tax dodging millionaires. Certainly the crustier presenters are conservative with a small c, and needlessly confrontational - which can be a productive approach sometimes, but usually isn't.

[kruku]

Don't get too involved in anything you hear from BBC news and current affairs. I Stopped listening to Radio 4 years ago. It is nearly all propanganda. It ignores real stories that are not in the interests of our industrialmilitrary complex until they're outed on the internet. The Arab Spring & the Wesminster pedophile dossiers are two stories that come immediately to mind. And when they do broardcast it's only a damage limitation excercise. Radio 4 is a neocon propanganda organ and I am always impressed with anyone who tells me they've quit working for the BBC news services.