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   Dr. Fallon ~ 14 months ago

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   The American version of this is at factcheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. It is a valuable resource for people who actually want to know when they're being misled, manipulated or lied to.
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   Dr. Fallon ~ 14 months ago

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   Question: Is Channel 4 a commercial, for-profit station? Are they dependent on advertising revenues? Are they advertising material commodities for public consumption? If yes, then can they be really objective? I'm not saying they're not, but I'd like to know how Brits feel about their track record in light of the questions above.
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      graeme ~ 14 months ago

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      Channel 4 is commercial and for-profit with a dependency on advertisers. Some of the channels' content is very good and thought provoking. I think they have less of a political bias than the BBC.
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   snak ~ 14 months ago

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   Channel 4 started as an alternative commercial channel (at the time we had BBC1, general purpose mass public non-commercial channel; BBC2, as BBC 1 for the more discerning, more thinking masses; and ITV - Independent TV - a general purpose mass public commercial channel). It indended to be the commercial BBC2. It succeeded at first by virtue of the fact that one of the BBC2 viewers watched it (thereby even splitting the thinking viewers into two equal parts, lol). But then it created a massively successful soap opera (Brookside) and grew from there. Some channel 4 programs have been excellent - it even showed some of the Film Board of Canada cartoons, which are excellent. It has a good record for comedy programmes, many from America.
   
   I've not noticed any overt pandering to advertisers.
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   AdGuy

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   This is my two cents...
   
      
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