Your comment about Americans being more educated about Squirrels on skateboards is why we Brits heave a sigh of pity and disgust when American visitors to the UK gush " Oh ,it`s just like Harry Potter". 1000 years of architecture and history condensed into reminiscences of film watching .
Man - all that wonderful architecture was designed by a French speaking ruling class, but built by beaten Saxons - I still love it 👍🏽 The descendants of those Normans still own 90% of the land. And unless you are one of the 7% privately educated your great parents were at best tolerated professionals and more likely factory fodder.
Very true. I am Dutch and the usual reaction that Americans have to anything Dutch is "how cute!". Meanwhile we had a declaration of independence 200 years before the U.S. did.
Yes, Kalyn (sp?) didn't mention BBC World Service radio, which is a serious omission - not that I'm blaming her, I mean that it's a significant outlet for anyone wanting to consume radio news, in that it is still quite genuinely about "world" news (despite having been cut back a lot in recent years) - not just purely UK- US- or Europe-centric.
The biggest difference I noticed between UK and US news reporting on mainstream TV is in the US the news is "sold" to the viewer where in the UK it less "dramatised" and just reported on.
Erm, only in place like London or the bigger cities. People still buy national papers here. We can also access their articles on their apps which are regularly updated during the day.
Crackers in both countries look backwards at highly curated/imaginative versions of the past. I think we're generally more erudite than Americans but not by much. We're a small/medium sized country with a global empire in our past to learn about & WWII being an existential conflict for the UK affected our culture more, it forced us look outwards. They have a massive country, their wars also happen in far away places & never affect their civilians too much.
Prior to WW2 they were also big supporters of fascism and wrote openly about it. These days they still are, but they try to lure people in with photos of semi-naked celebs.
Out of interest, in March 2024, I compared the news stories on a UK TV channel as compared to a US TV channel. For the UK I used the BBC evening bulletin and for the US I used the NBC one. The results were interesting. BBC Domestic stories: 7 (54%) Stories involving both the UK and a foreign country: 2 (15%) Purely foreign stories: 4 (31%) NBC Domestic stories: 9 (90%) Stories involving both the US and a foreign country: 1 (10%) Purely foreign stories: 0 (0%) I think that tells you all you need to know about the lack of knowledge that most Americans have about the world outside their borders.
I moved to the us in the early nineties and Fox News was just in it's infancy. Imagine my horror as I watched 'World in a Minute' when half of the news was about the US! Sigh.
as uk folk, it seems an odd notion to us, to rely on ~news~ as a way of building "a feeling of" community. here, we prefer to dispense with the 'feeling' and the middle man, and just actually build community, by spending time with each other in public social spaces, and the like.
@@JJLAReacts , The big thing that really split the UK was of course Brexit , suddenly your ok news program was telling you lies and after all the years of you watching them plus most of the others they suddenly were not at all patriotic and they wanted to remain inside the eu and be run by the left wing who were a close selection of people that selected the next president of the organisation ( it's not a country ) without any elections . It was not just the television but also the radio and the newspapers as well wanting to be run by some europeans . When I ask people that voted to leave the eu what they would of said if we had not won they always say " nevermind better luck next time " . The people that lost to this day can't accept they lost and always say that Brexit failed BUT every conservative government has always had a majority of remainers running the country doing their best to over turn the democratic vote . The result of this is now everyone scrutinises anything on any news programs and even game shows etc etc and you can always pick out the remainers by what they say and how they say it . Some idiots have said when asked why stay in the eu -- I don't have to have a passport for my dog and prove that they have had the anti rabies injection !!! I don't have to queue to show my passport !!! I want to work in the eu but now have to fill in forms !!! It cost more if I want to stay full time in a country in the eu !!!!
@@CyanideSunshines some twat in my village has a double union jack flag in his garden with reform on one lol , nice to see the fascists can't help but expose themselves to the rest of the community ;)
I went to Florida on holiday when I was younger. The day after we arrived, one of the largest man-made catastrophes EVER, happened back home. That story never featured once on any of the US TV news channels or in any newspapers. When I got back home and heard the about it I realised then that World news that we take for granted in the UK simply doesn’t exist in the USA.
When you repeated ‘ Thank-you Google’ … my google home full on scared the s**t out of me when it announces ‘ you’re welcome as always’ to your comment on this. 😂
i ALWAYS look for different sources of news. probably not on YT though... I noticed during p@ndemic, they were all saying the same. So, i search for my own news sources. X is good
Meidas Touch keeps me up to date with the rallies. They can skew what they show, sure, but they can't put the actual words in the maw of IQ45 when I am watching actual footage.
I think that the USA must be the only country in the World to use Red as right leaning and blue as left leaning. Look at the flags of China and the USSR - Red Flags for Left Wing. In fact the anthem of the UK Labour Party is ‘The Red Flag’. ‘The Red Flag’ is a socialist song, emphasising the sacrifices and solidarity of the international labour movement.
We have OFCOM in the UK, you are not allowed to purposely mislead or be dishonest on TV news, with legal teeth to fine a company if they are dishonest or misleading. GB news was just fined by OFCOM for breaking the rules.
I think it is also important to note that the BBC still has the World Service with its own global and globally regional radio and television stations etc. And us in Britain get to enjoy that worldwide perspective at night, when the BBC News channel switches to those World Service channels.
You'll find that for a few years now the BBC News channel has broadcast to the world. They only broadcast UK centric news at 1pm, 6pm & 10pm on BBC 1 and the News Channel.
When I worked for a year in the US (Chicago) around 1980 the hourly TV News was 45 minutes on Chicago, 10 minutes on Illinois, 4 minutes on USA and 1 minute on the world ended yesterday - so the type of news coverage in the US has not changed in 45 years
I found this video fascinating when I watched GGL originally. The whole local/ national/ international ordering explains a lot. When people say the US school system must be rubbish because Americans seem to know little about the rest of the world, I always think that we in the UK don't actually learn most of it from school either- we just pick it up from information we get throughout life. But if your news barely has room for international stories, then you wouldn't pick this stuff up. I get most of my news via BBC Radio4 - with this information supplemented by stuff that I see online. We do get local weather forecasts on TV tacked on to the local segments of news reporting - because even here in the UK the story is different depending on where you are.
I went to High School in the US at 14yrs old and they have to move me up 2 yrs and even then school in the US was just fun, I didn't learn anything that I didn't already know at 14! So easy too, no GCSE's or A levels either, no pressure at all.
Great point from a well known political commentator: Upon his first interview with Jeremy Paxman (A renound interviewer in politics etc), he made his points succinctly and saw Paxman nod/ slightly smile at his answer before moving on to the others with an opposing view. As the others answered with their opinions, said commentator sat with crossed arms, looking quite smug. Paxman then turned back to him with a straight face and sternly remarked, 'what are you smiling about?'. In essence, journalists and interviewers in the UK (BBC in particular) cannot just sit in front of the camera on express their own views in such a situation, rather they must take on the role of devils advocate. There are exceptions to this of course, but in terms of serious reporting about important issues, such as much of Paxmans work, the job has nothing to do with showing your own motives or opinions, they are often not at all expressed, although tone is a tool sometimes used.
13:53 it isn't just size, it's the degree of autonomy and decentralisation. Scotland has its own papers and usually its own versions of the UK national papers too.
GB news is the closest thing we have to an extreme right wing broadcaster. It’s been struggling since day one, famously getting fewer viewers than the Welsh language edition of Paw Patrol.
@@EnochPowellsLibrarianthe fact that it repeats russian disinformation and is funded by Russia. The fact it hires racist scumbag hosts, the fact that it publishes lies time and time again. They fact they trick people into thinking immigration is some huge issues. They just got fined by ofcom for over 100k for lying. GB news is literally owned by Rupert Murdoch the dude who owns fox and the same dude that admitted lying to the American people about the election and called what his company did by repeating trumps lies 'a great disservice to the American people''. Google fox dominion lawsuit, it's all online for free to view, hundreds of pages of fox knowing their lying and choosing to lie, choosing to be racist and try to promote Donald trump stealing the election. It's all in noead daylight and morons like you ask if gb news is right 😅😅😅😅 catch a fucking grip mate and join us in reality
@WookieWarriorz Funded by Russia? 😂😂 grow up you little boy. And owned by Rupert Murdoch? Has little Wookie boy got Trump derangement syndrome too ?🙄 Have Martians got a piece of GBnews aswell little wookie? I hear aliens are "far Right" too 😂 The BBC has been investigated and fined for breaching impartiality rules countless times, so wind your neck in little "everyone is waycist" wookie boy!
The biggest difference when it comes to news quality, which wasn't in the video but has been said below multiple times, is Ofcom. Having a regulator outside the government that is unbiased and can fine/prosecute news broadcasters is fundamental to keeping our news honest in the UK. GBNews has only this week been fined £100,000 for misleading in one of their reports, for example.
I can’t agree with this at all, just because the news isn’t giving global news. It doesn’t mean that it isn’t accessible, the problem is most Americans really don’t give a toss about what happens outside of American borders.
Hmm, that's definitely happening. Most Americans are living day to day trying to feed the kids and don't have the energy to seek out global news. If it's not spoon fed to us then we probably won't see it. If we don't see it, we don't care. I see your point and I agree, but I wonder if it's a chicken/egg thing.
@@JJLAReacts Hmmm, people are struggling day to day in most countries, but are not necessarily ignorant to the world around them. I think it's more to do with mindset than energy.
@@JJLAReactsBeing kept so busy with life that you have no time to find out what goes on in other countries sounds like a great way to keep a population ignorant. New conspiracy theory unlocked
Yeah, you Americans have got your political colours the wrong way around. Like, socialists wave the red flag. They have an anthem they sing all about it called "the Red Flag". The USSR's flag was red with a hammer and sickle. China's is red with a star on it. Red is very much an integral socialist / communist colour. But, no, in America - alone - the Republicans grabbed red as their party colour and then confused everything.
The colours were allocated by the news outlets, things were B&W until 1972 when CBS used blue ( colour TV now..) for the Republicans but in 1980 one network used red for Reagan and somehow that stuck!.
Yeah, the BBC gets slagged off by both sides of the political spectrum. Personally I think that the fact that both sides slag them off suggests they're at least trying, with varying degrees of success, to remain even handed.
Which is what the right wing have always relied on. Come on, you know that right wing parties and individuals will see something that entirely supports them 95% of the time and way, and then bitch and whine they are 'Commies' because there was 5% neutrality. It has always been that way. The right wing complain that way *because* there are many people who believe "Well if both sides are complaining then it must be fair, right?"
I'm no longer convinced that the BBC is impartial. I'm also no longer convinced they don't lie. I am convinced they lie less than most alternatives. So yes, it is, probably, the most trusted news source, but I would say that doesn't say much.
Breaking news, woman falsely reports presence of dog with blue collar passing her window. Update on Breaking News, Florida Woman make false accusation regarding local dog.
First off US left is considered centrist in EU. Most EU have a major public TV and radio that at least is supported to be non biased and take pride in digging up dirt on whatever party is in control. It is often the main or secon modt viewed or listen to radio.
I'd rather get my news from a trusted source IE the BBC rather than some YT channel who, usually in my experience, are biased. I'll stand on this hill and fight to the death - come at me Jean!
I’ve personally never lived anywhere in the UK that doesn’t have a localish newspaper…I say localish because it might be one tha5 now covers a larger area than it once would have. But to be honest, for people like me that don’t live in an area that they grew up in, the local paper isn’t quite as necessary reading as it would be if you grew up in the area due to the intimations (also known as births, deaths, marriages, in memoriam and also sometimes acknowledgements). The intimations are always where you keep track of the people you’ve known through your life and as a teenager (back in the late 80’s and early 90’s), I’d check the intimations at the front and the what’s on guide (normally included on a Thursday in my local paper) towards the back to see what bands were playing locally and that’s about it. I will add though, that here in the UK many of the local newspapers are evening editions that are released for sale in the afternoon. So depending on what time of day she was looking for them, they may just not have been available yet. I will also add that using the size of the US as an excuse for being insular when it comes to the news that’s being broadcast, is a bit weak. These news networks are churning out news 24 hours a day and instead of ensuring that international, national, state and local news all receive a decent amount of airtime to ensure that their communities receive a well rounded report. They instead concentrate either on really local issues or what is making the country more and more divisive. Here in the UK, I would say that the most watched news on the TV are ones that aren’t on 24 hours news channels, it’s the evening news on BBC1, ITV and Channel Four or the nightly news on BBC1 and ITV, along with the slightly later Newsnight on BBC2. Our main channel news programmes always show the reports in order of what has been deemed most important and may be either national or international and both BBC1 and ITV have local news slots after the national & international news programme. But then there is local radio stations both from the BBC and Commercial Radio, then the BBC also has the Welsh language channel and the Gaelic channel available in Wales and Scotland respectively (I think you can also get them on iPlayer too)…all along with the multiple 24 hour news channels…one o& which is BBC News 24.
You would be very hard pressed to find a copy of the Sun in Liverpool. It has been boycotted for many years because of the lies it published about Liverpool FC fans after the Hillsborough tragedy. A few years ago a newsagent new to the area started to stock it. A local person bought up every copy and dumped them in a rubbish bin outside.
A major difference between tv news here in Old Blighty and over there in The Colonies is the amount of time given over to news each day. If you take an ordinary weekday, The BBC on it's two main channels broadcasts over nine hours of news in addition to The BBC News Channel which is now merged with BBC World Service Television. In addition to BBC News, which is the biggest broadcast news organisation in the world, we also have ITV News, Channel 4 News, Channel 5 News and Sky News which is a 24 hours Satellite News Channel. While American news is skewed heavily on local and national US stories here in the UK we see what happens in different parts of the world every day. I know which one I prefer.
I used to work for a local newspaper group. They were owned by The Mirror Group. I have recently seen hard copies of their main county wide paper but the smaller town papers no longer exist as the Internet has made these no longer viable. They used to be very handy for checking out local businesses, local jobs and the local theatre and cinema listing as as well as news. Now all available on your phone. Goodbye job 😢
No! Both the BBC and the ITV stations have free to air local news reports. Where I live I can watch the BBC's East Midlands Today and ITV's Central Today.
Caitlyn is very astute. As a Brit I look for comments that I may disagree with - but almost never can. She is extremely analytical and presents it very professionally.
She didn't mention Channel 5 or ITV news. JJLA, there's at least 2 newspapers that cover the whole of E Anglia. East Anglia Daily Times, and the Eastern Daily Press.
And she gave the exact numbers of how many regions/areas did, vs how many didn't. More didn't. She never said many don't. She gave you the factual statistic that *most* don't. In addition, what she didn't say is that most 'Local Papers' are just vessels for generating advertising revenue, have very few if any 'reporters' or journalists of their own, and mostly just rewrite stories that are handed to them or found via other channels.
"It'll be like me doing this!" Proceeds to talk into the bottom of the microphone, not the 'other side'! Of course, that's such a good photograph of the Radio 4 presenter at work, because it is also being filmed and you can watch it online if you wish! They have the presenters sat around a desk so you'd want your mic set up to pick up the main focal voice from the presenter but also of everyone else around the desk/table!
The fact that the right say that the BBC is bias to the left and the left say the BBC is bias to the right is a good indication that they are pretty none bias.
Exactly, the BBC as an org is pretty neutral. The run of the mill stories on BBC News are balanced. There's unfortunately just a few of the bigger names at BBC news that damage their reputation, such as Laura K.
The BBC's bias is more about what they don't report rather than them biasly reporting items. But the fact so many top names left because of interference is very telling !!!
and don't forget that various governments have packed the BBC with management and "journalists" who "used" to work for Rupert Murdoch. So it is no longer completely unbiased, as it was supposed to be when set up
Over the last twenty years local papers have been losing money and some of them have closed down. My local newspaper used to be published every evening. Now it is once a week. Most TV stations have local news following the world news.
fishfinger8441 made a excellent point about Jerermy Paxman , another excellent political commentator is Andrew Neil who ever he was interviewing he had the opposite view , it was great when he interviewed someone from the left and he was coming from the right , he then would interview someone from the right and he would come from the left , all in the same program . He would of made a excellent PM . One time he interviewed an American speaker ( young ish and I think Jewish ) he totally wiped the floor with him , the American admitted after the show that he will never ever again do a interview with someone that he hasn't done some good research on them first 😂
Are you referring to Andrew's infamous interview of Ben Shapiro a few years ago when Shapiro had a meltdown, basically accused him and the entire BBC of being commies and walked off?
This epitomises the essential difference between the two countries. The UK is far more interested in International and National news rather than in the US where it’s far more local first, then National with almost no International reporting. This is why the vast majority of Americans are so insular and uneducated about International events and stories.
There is a weekly magazine in the UK called simply "the WEEK" to reduce bias, it prints a news story stating what each of the newspapers are saying so it gives a more balanced view
Printed newspaper is available for free on buses and in some cafes so I feel like that’s an important point the make when looking at the us vs uk differences in paper consumption. 1 paper here can cover the news for multiple people on public transport daily
If I’m just aimlessly watching tv and the news comes on, I use that to tell the time 😂😂 “Oh it’s lunchtime? Because this is the lunchtime news”, “it’s 10pm already because it’s the 10pm news” Madness 😂😂
Re: UK newspapers (local Vs national): I live in Bristol in the SW of England, near South Wales and Somerset. As far as I can remember, we've always had local newspapers like "The evening post/The Bristol post", "The spark", "The Bristol cable", or local newsletters called "up your street". I think it really does depend on whete you live, but also your social standing, as in my experience, more working class/poorer people read/comsume local media, vs middle/upper class people who tend/seem to focus more on national media.
I don’t believe that a major event has happened until it’s on the BBC Breaking News. Especially if someone well known (that I take an interest in anyway). Which is part of the reason I nearly have a heart attack any time David Attenborough trends when he doesn’t have a programme on at that time.
In the UK we used to get “local” papers pushed through your door … for free, paid for by advertising, and perhaps a paid for one but they’ve virtually disappeared in my part of the UK. However, we can still get locally focussed news but it’s online. 🤷🏻♂️ Where once everyone used to know about local events which were happening people are now likely to miss them because they didn’t know about them.
We no longer get a local free newspaper as they have decided to have more of an online presence, but we do get two weekly magazines posted through the door. One is specific to our town and the other about the town next to ours. Both have articles that concentrate on very local news - achievements by local schools, community groups; the local police reports on crime figures; local council news… They also have advertisements for local businesses and events.
@ yeah, we still get a small sized monthly local magazine posted through the door by volunteers with local articles, useful numbers and a brief list of what’s going on. This too is funded by advertisers. However, it doesn’t really draw you in like the old style “freebie” newspaper did.
There are loads of regional and local papers in the UK, and even more so here in Ireland. I grew up in North Wales and my main sources of print media news were the North Wales Daily Post and the Bangor Chronicle. both of which kept me appraised of local politics and events.
I stopped watching TV news years ago, haven't bought a newspaper in over 30 years, and now just reach for the volume control when radio news appears every half hour during drive time. Remember when Trevor McDonald would end News at Ten with an "and finally" story that'd send you to bed with a smile? Those days are long gone! I'm an #InfoCurator now - I choose exactly what I want to know about and life's so much better for it. Only downside is you can't stop people telling you things you'd rather not hear! 😄
Scotland has its own national print media, which is different to England. Unfortunately Wales has very little in National Media - which is an issue when Wales is ignored in the English Media.
Not just in the UK, red was the colour of the left and socialism globally. Blue is less clear cut as an affiliate colour. The US only started using the colour red for Reps and blue for Dems after their 2000 election when a lot of TV channels used these assigned colours. Prior to that, the colours were often reversed. I'm not sure when the colours were officially adopted but probably in the last 15 years or so. In the recent past anyway.
We might not care that much about local news readers, but they can get a following. A former presenter on Granada (which is north west England on ITV), Lucy Meacock did have a song written about her by comedy folk band The Lancashire Hotpots.
It's actually cool that you yourself highlight how this different focus on local and insular over international and global awareness becomes a deeper cultural bias. You did this when you were surprised over the fact that the US Red vs Blue is different to the UK, and to most of the rest of the world. Despite the fact you've probably heard that the Russians/Communists used to always be called 'The Reds', that Communist flags in Russia, China, and elsewhere are red. That people of Upper classes or 'Noble' backgrounds are called 'Blue Blooded', etc. All around the world there has been a tendency for Rebels to choose Red. Even the US 'Rebel Flag' was on a red background. Meanwhile any institution that wants to be seen as 'Traditional' (another word for Conservative) often picks Blue - as in Royal Blue, 'True Blue', IBM being 'Big Blue', etc. etc. How were you not taught this or pick it up? Well, because your teachers, peers, neighbours, etc. were all within the culture that puts Local above National above Global in every sense. They've literally been 'culturally conditioned' that way, and they unconsciously pass it along to the next generation.
UK here I take a local paper every day. Mainly for the Crossword!! Although there is a fair bit of National content in it too. I noticed on my first visit to the USA back in the early 70's that there were lots of local TV channels even back then Until the WWW explosion and the likes of You Tube (obviously!) I did take a National Paper Cant remember the last time I actually switched the 'Telly' on purposely for any News content In fact until I just watched your reaction to this 'Girl Gone London' y tube I had not given the subject much thought! Good Video, very interesting J Just to say been watching for a while Just Subscribed! From'Just left of Centre UK!!😁
When i watched tv programmes in the US, most of the time in the hour was about medical ads..... haven't watch live there for years., not sure id ever want to!
To understand how we can have so many national daily newspapers it might help to understand that the UK is 60% of the size of California but has more than double the population of that state. To give another example, the UK is just 2% smaller than Oregon but has nearly 18 times more people. Distribution of any national publication is considerably easier in the UK then.
We had a local paper till just recently. Now the paper is online. The local news is on every evening prior to the main news which coves world news as well as main news in the UK
In the UK what about the Liverpool Echo,Worcester Evening News, Malvern Gazette, Birmingham News newspapers to name but a few local ones . Then there is the Metro newspaper, free on local transport . You can also add weekly local newspapers. Not forgetting Sunday newspapers.. There are breakfast news programs, of an evening tv channels have half an hour national news,then half an hour of local news at teatime and late evening news as well.
The traditional news outlets in the UK produce some of the greatest pieces of fiction available The Telegraph is one of the most consistent when it comes to fiction
Love your channel (and GGL's) But, pretty sure Radio 4 knows how to use microphones...btw... There isn't much use of using microphones in radio if it's only for the pictures!😉😂
So you don't have or had a local newspaper to your home town. Or at least an online presence of that local newspaper nowadays. So definitely not strange
im shocked by the lack of international squirrel skateboard coverage. I mean to say we get local squirrel news of course but also international squirrels, octopus and other animal newsflash/breaking news developments. TBF though, a lot of squirrel news is just nuts.
I'm from central England and we have a dedicated regional TV channel which is part of ITV network and is dedicated to reporting on local news rather than national and international news these are left for the main ITV network news team to report upon. The part where she mentions that there isn't many local newspapers in print available. After a quick look online I found almost 20 local Midlands newspapers okay not many are daily newspapers, some are weekly, but I feel like a lot of the other comparisons this lady provides isn't correct entirely and she need to get away from London and into the wilderness of the UK.
Just a couple of quick points, The UK has four full time national radio and TV English language stations plus in Wales Radio Cymru and BBC Cymru ( Welsh Language broadcasting ).My second point is the USA is not a massive or huge country when compared to many Canada, Brazil or China for example and is small when compared to Russia geographically or many other in terms of population.
What?. Canada has far fewer people than the US and saying its not a huge country is absolutely delusional. The US is the 3rd largest country by population in the world.
I am from London and every borough in London has a local Gazette Newspaper, I no longer live in London I now live in a town in Essex which also has a local Newspaper and when I lived in a town in kent that also has a local Newspaper. The difference I find between local Newspapers and National newspapers is that local newspapers outside of London only cover community things like up and coming things in the areas like Christmas markets, parades and local job vacancies and business advertisers they are very community-based and free they are usually based in a separate part of the super market compared to national newspapers that are sold. Local borough newspapers in London aren't free and tend to cover more controversial news like crime as well as having community stuff like local businesses and political crap. In London, there is also a free newspaper which you can usually pick up on the London Underground called the Evening Standard. I found when the Beer Bug the Big 'C' was around American Broadcasted news was a lot more scare mongering than UK Broadcasting news.
My town still has a local printed paper it also has a website. It used to be printed 6 days a week, but for the last few years it has only be printed once a week. It is quite a large town Northampton the county is Northamptonshire im not sure if other towns in my county still have printed papers but they used to. I know when i was a kid/teen we used to have 3 other local weekly newspapers because they were my paper round lol
Have you ever considered that reading competency -- as in newspapers, for example -- is a critical lifeskill? Regardless of the old chestnut that viewing/listening is "more natural" because you don't have to learn a skill (reading) to do it.
I've just posted 2 headlines from today. The first from the Washington Post says Trump spoke to Putin on the phone. The 2nd headlines comes from the ITV news which is a UK site which says the Kremlin denies call from Trump..
In the 80s ( yes I am Old ) most people I knew mostly read Local papers - always evening papers - Mostly due to regional differences in ITV scheduling and the weather. I know my parents only got national papers at the weekend.
When I lived in Texas, I got the Houston Chronicle. They had local news, which was Houston, National news which was Texas, and International News, that was America. I barely ever saw international news in the paper. I ended up finding a store that carried International papers, French, German and English. They had two English newspapers, the Times and the Telegraph. Once a week I would pay $5 for a Telegraph (and this was in the early 90s!)!
The BBC is meant to be impartial/unbiased so neither left, centre or right. If you believe that depends on who you ask. I was shocked when I watched the "news" in America.
The Guardian used to be a Liberal newspaper but got highjacked by the left. When I was in LA . many years ago I brought back to England their weekend newspaper via a vending machine. It was enormous, at least 2 inches thick and was pretty weighty. In films you can still see news boys on bicycles throwing rolled a papers onto lawns.
We definitely still have local newspapers, although they are usually only printed weekly rather than daily. But TBF the UK is about the size of Oregon and I'm guessing statewide news would class as local news?
Because the UK has a far more effective public transportation system many people commute to work on these systems and these often give out free printed news papers or have news stands to pick up printed news papers. This has helped keep the print version of the news going, compared to the states who commute to work far less than the average UK citizen.
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Your comment about Americans being more educated about Squirrels on skateboards is why we Brits heave a sigh of pity and disgust when American visitors to the UK gush " Oh ,it`s just like Harry Potter".
1000 years of architecture and history condensed into reminiscences of film watching .
Man - all that wonderful architecture was designed by a French speaking ruling class, but built by beaten Saxons - I still love it 👍🏽
The descendants of those Normans still own 90% of the land.
And unless you are one of the 7% privately educated your great parents were at best tolerated professionals and more likely factory fodder.
@@spruce381 What does your comment have to do with Harry Potter?
Very true. I am Dutch and the usual reaction that Americans have to anything Dutch is "how cute!".
Meanwhile we had a declaration of independence 200 years before the U.S. did.
The BBC World News is about world news, ABC World News is about American news!
And Fox News is all the lies you could ever possibly want about anyone who is not extreme right wing.
lol same as their world series doesn't have the world in it lol.
the BBC also broadcast to the world often in their language
@@mcncirceBill Gates donated money to the BBC a few years ago to keep the BBC World Service on the radio amd broadcasting to the world.
Yes, Kalyn (sp?) didn't mention BBC World Service radio, which is a serious omission - not that I'm blaming her, I mean that it's a significant outlet for anyone wanting to consume radio news, in that it is still quite genuinely about "world" news (despite having been cut back a lot in recent years) - not just purely UK- US- or Europe-centric.
The biggest difference I noticed between UK and US news reporting on mainstream TV is in the US the news is "sold" to the viewer where in the UK it less "dramatised" and just reported on.
It used to be that way in many European countries. But following the example of the BBC, news became much more business like by the late 70s
We have strict broadcasting standards in the UK. The news cannot lie to us, they would get in the sh*t.
Free newspapers are available on public transport. That may be why Brits still read newspapers.
My guess is that you live in London. Am I correct?
@@TheLynneee I wouldn’t use them for personal use. The paper quality is too low.
@@andypandy9013 well they are also available at national rail station, but not as prominent
Erm, only in place like London or the bigger cities. People still buy national papers here. We can also access their articles on their apps which are regularly updated during the day.
They’re definitely on plenty of buses in Nottinghamshire
The US looks inward and the UK looks outward.
@phillipnash2843 The US looks inward and the UK looks... meh. Maybe tomorrow. Whatever.
That might have been true, but the way the UK's shadowing the US, it's becoming less and less true.
Crackers in both countries look backwards at highly curated/imaginative versions of the past.
I think we're generally more erudite than Americans but not by much.
We're a small/medium sized country with a global empire in our past to learn about & WWII being an existential conflict for the UK affected our culture more, it forced us look outwards.
They have a massive country, their wars also happen in far away places & never affect their civilians too much.
Daily Mail is also known as the Daily Fail in the UK. They make so much stuff up that they've been banned as a source on Wikipedia of all websites 😂
😂 this is good news!
Or the Daily Malicious
Prior to WW2 they were also big supporters of fascism and wrote openly about it. These days they still are, but they try to lure people in with photos of semi-naked celebs.
twig. Nonsense.
Daily Hate Mail. Very popular paper in Germany in the 1930s.
Out of interest, in March 2024, I compared the news stories on a UK TV channel as compared to a US TV channel.
For the UK I used the BBC evening bulletin and for the US I used the NBC one.
The results were interesting.
BBC
Domestic stories: 7 (54%)
Stories involving both the UK and a foreign country: 2 (15%)
Purely foreign stories: 4 (31%)
NBC
Domestic stories: 9 (90%)
Stories involving both the US and a foreign country: 1 (10%)
Purely foreign stories: 0 (0%)
I think that tells you all you need to know about the lack of knowledge that most Americans have about the world outside their borders.
I moved to the us in the early nineties and Fox News was just in it's infancy. Imagine my horror as I watched 'World in a Minute' when half of the news was about the US! Sigh.
@@WooHooCrossStitch So when Fox "News" was learning how to lie then? 😠
as uk folk, it seems an odd notion to us, to rely on ~news~ as a way of building "a feeling of" community. here, we prefer to dispense with the 'feeling' and the middle man, and just actually build community, by spending time with each other in public social spaces, and the like.
Interesting point! Yeah, we don't have that pub culture like the UK. I wish we did!
@@JJLAReacts , The big thing that really split the UK was of course Brexit , suddenly your ok news program was telling you lies and after all the years of you watching them plus most of the others they suddenly were not at all patriotic and they wanted to remain inside the eu and be run by the left wing who were a close selection of people that selected the next president of the organisation ( it's not a country ) without any elections .
It was not just the television but also the radio and the newspapers as well wanting to be run by some europeans .
When I ask people that voted to leave the eu what they would of said if we had not won they always say " nevermind better luck next time " .
The people that lost to this day can't accept they lost and always say that Brexit failed BUT every conservative government has always had a majority of remainers running the country doing their best to over turn the democratic vote .
The result of this is now everyone scrutinises anything on any news programs and even game shows etc etc and you can always pick out the remainers by what they say and how they say it .
Some idiots have said when asked why stay in the eu -- I don't have to have a passport for my dog and prove that they have had the anti rabies injection !!!
I don't have to queue to show my passport !!!
I want to work in the eu but now have to fill in forms !!!
It cost more if I want to stay full time in a country in the eu !!!!
@@JJLAReacts When my partner starts ranting at the telly, I send him down the pub..Was this his ploy?
lol absolutely.
Definitely! 😅
I bought a daily mail to line my pals parrot cage with, but the parrot won't even sh1t on the daily mail!
Before the election, I had a reform leaflet put through the door and my cat pissed on it 😂
Try the sun 😇
@@CyanideSunshines good cat!
@@CyanideSunshines some twat in my village has a double union jack flag in his garden with reform on one lol , nice to see the fascists can't help but expose themselves to the rest of the community ;)
@@JillHughes-n1h I've been a Liverpool fan for 51 years......
I went to Florida on holiday when I was younger. The day after we arrived, one of the largest man-made catastrophes EVER, happened back home. That story never featured once on any of the US TV news channels or in any newspapers. When I got back home and heard the about it I realised then that World news that we take for granted in the UK simply doesn’t exist in the USA.
When you repeated ‘ Thank-you Google’ … my google home full on scared the s**t out of me when it announces ‘ you’re welcome as always’ to your comment on this. 😂
I would NEVER EVER use RUclips for news, last place I'd look.
Why?, do you not want unbiased truth?. Keep sucking Murdochs teat, I'm sure it tastes great.
I mean all news channels have RUclips channels so it’s not much different where you watch it.
i ALWAYS look for different sources of news. probably not on YT though... I noticed during p@ndemic, they were all saying the same. So, i search for my own news sources. X is good
Meidas Touch keeps me up to date with the rallies. They can skew what they show, sure, but they can't put the actual words in the maw of IQ45 when I am watching actual footage.
@@hmtqnikitashakur3399 X is garbage.
I think that the USA must be the only country in the World to use Red as right leaning and blue as left leaning. Look at the flags of China and the USSR - Red Flags for Left Wing. In fact the anthem of the UK Labour Party is ‘The Red Flag’. ‘The Red Flag’ is a socialist song, emphasising the sacrifices and solidarity of the international labour movement.
In the late 50s and early 60s in the USA they were worried about 'reds under the bed' and they were not thinking about Republicans
We have OFCOM in the UK, you are not allowed to purposely mislead or be dishonest on TV news, with legal teeth to fine a company if they are dishonest or misleading. GB news was just fined by OFCOM for breaking the rules.
BBC are always being investigated for pro hamas and anti israel propaganda . They're always apologising for something biased in their reports lol.
BBC are being investigated yet again for biased reporting. They're always apologising for it 😂
"Teeth" is a generous description.
BBC have been fined countless times before too.
The BBC political team is actually right leaning, believe it or not. They are or were affiliated to the Conservative Party.
I think it is also important to note that the BBC still has the World Service with its own global and globally regional radio and television stations etc. And us in Britain get to enjoy that worldwide perspective at night, when the BBC News channel switches to those World Service channels.
You'll find that for a few years now the BBC News channel has broadcast to the world. They only broadcast UK centric news at 1pm, 6pm & 10pm on BBC 1 and the News Channel.
@@steven54511Yeah BBC world news is broadcast in the US on the PBS channel.
When I worked for a year in the US (Chicago) around 1980 the hourly TV News was 45 minutes on Chicago, 10 minutes on Illinois, 4 minutes on USA and 1 minute on the world ended yesterday - so the type of news coverage in the US has not changed in 45 years
I found this video fascinating when I watched GGL originally.
The whole local/ national/ international ordering explains a lot. When people say the US school system must be rubbish because Americans seem to know little about the rest of the world, I always think that we in the UK don't actually learn most of it from school either- we just pick it up from information we get throughout life. But if your news barely has room for international stories, then you wouldn't pick this stuff up.
I get most of my news via BBC Radio4 - with this information supplemented by stuff that I see online.
We do get local weather forecasts on TV tacked on to the local segments of news reporting - because even here in the UK the story is different depending on where you are.
true! if i see a world map once in school and then never again, how would i remember what countries were on there!
I went to High School in the US at 14yrs old and they have to move me up 2 yrs and even then school in the US was just fun, I didn't learn anything that I didn't already know at 14! So easy too, no GCSE's or A levels either, no pressure at all.
Great point from a well known political commentator: Upon his first interview with Jeremy Paxman (A renound interviewer in politics etc), he made his points succinctly and saw Paxman nod/ slightly smile at his answer before moving on to the others with an opposing view. As the others answered with their opinions, said commentator sat with crossed arms, looking quite smug. Paxman then turned back to him with a straight face and sternly remarked, 'what are you smiling about?'. In essence, journalists and interviewers in the UK (BBC in particular) cannot just sit in front of the camera on express their own views in such a situation, rather they must take on the role of devils advocate. There are exceptions to this of course, but in terms of serious reporting about important issues, such as much of Paxmans work, the job has nothing to do with showing your own motives or opinions, they are often not at all expressed, although tone is a tool sometimes used.
Douglas? love it
@ yep! Was a great insight aha
13:53 it isn't just size, it's the degree of autonomy and decentralisation. Scotland has its own papers and usually its own versions of the UK national papers too.
GB news is the closest thing we have to an extreme right wing broadcaster. It’s been struggling since day one, famously getting fewer viewers than the Welsh language edition of Paw Patrol.
"Extreme Right" ? What makes GBnews "Extreme Right" ?
@@EnochPowellsLibrarianthe fact that it repeats russian disinformation and is funded by Russia. The fact it hires racist scumbag hosts, the fact that it publishes lies time and time again. They fact they trick people into thinking immigration is some huge issues. They just got fined by ofcom for over 100k for lying. GB news is literally owned by Rupert Murdoch the dude who owns fox and the same dude that admitted lying to the American people about the election and called what his company did by repeating trumps lies 'a great disservice to the American people''. Google fox dominion lawsuit, it's all online for free to view, hundreds of pages of fox knowing their lying and choosing to lie, choosing to be racist and try to promote Donald trump stealing the election. It's all in noead daylight and morons like you ask if gb news is right 😅😅😅😅 catch a fucking grip mate and join us in reality
GB news also recently fined by OFCOM for breaking impartiality rules
@WookieWarriorz Funded by Russia? 😂😂 grow up you little boy. And owned by Rupert Murdoch? Has little Wookie boy got Trump derangement syndrome too ?🙄 Have Martians got a piece of GBnews aswell little wookie? I hear aliens are "far Right" too 😂 The BBC has been investigated and fined for breaching impartiality rules countless times, so wind your neck in little "everyone is waycist" wookie boy!
@@peterjones6640 BBC have been fined before for breaking impartiality rules on multiple occasions. What's your point?
The biggest difference when it comes to news quality, which wasn't in the video but has been said below multiple times, is Ofcom. Having a regulator outside the government that is unbiased and can fine/prosecute news broadcasters is fundamental to keeping our news honest in the UK. GBNews has only this week been fined £100,000 for misleading in one of their reports, for example.
thats funny. 🤣 Ofcom? unbiased?
Ofcom lol.
In this instance they actually did the job were meant to do, finally.
In this instance they actually did the job were meant to do, finally.
I can’t agree with this at all, just because the news isn’t giving global news. It doesn’t mean that it isn’t accessible, the problem is most Americans really don’t give a toss about what happens outside of American borders.
Hmm, that's definitely happening. Most Americans are living day to day trying to feed the kids and don't have the energy to seek out global news. If it's not spoon fed to us then we probably won't see it. If we don't see it, we don't care. I see your point and I agree, but I wonder if it's a chicken/egg thing.
@@JJLAReacts yeah good point! if you are struggling to survive you wont have time for that. we live in luxury in europe compared to that.
@@JJLAReactsit starts at a school level , teaching kids that the USA is best and nothing else really matters .
@@JJLAReacts Hmmm, people are struggling day to day in most countries, but are not necessarily ignorant to the world around them. I think it's more to do with mindset than energy.
@@JJLAReactsBeing kept so busy with life that you have no time to find out what goes on in other countries sounds like a great way to keep a population ignorant. New conspiracy theory unlocked
Yeah, you Americans have got your political colours the wrong way around.
Like, socialists wave the red flag. They have an anthem they sing all about it called "the Red Flag".
The USSR's flag was red with a hammer and sickle. China's is red with a star on it.
Red is very much an integral socialist / communist colour.
But, no, in America - alone - the Republicans grabbed red as their party colour and then confused everything.
The colours were allocated by the news outlets, things were B&W until 1972 when CBS used blue ( colour TV now..) for the Republicans but in 1980 one network used red for Reagan and somehow that stuck!.
red white and black are the socialist colours because they were the three cheapest colours to print. globally. the rich can afford fancy colours ;)
Yeah, the BBC gets slagged off by both sides of the political spectrum. Personally I think that the fact that both sides slag them off suggests they're at least trying, with varying degrees of success, to remain even handed.
I trust the Beeb to tell me the truth on important matters, but it undoubtedly has a progressive leaning in the details.
@@Robhalifax So why are they called British Bulls** Company. Programmes good but news??? Come on does anone believe their Bullcr*p
Which is what the right wing have always relied on. Come on, you know that right wing parties and individuals will see something that entirely supports them 95% of the time and way, and then bitch and whine they are 'Commies' because there was 5% neutrality. It has always been that way. The right wing complain that way *because* there are many people who believe "Well if both sides are complaining then it must be fair, right?"
@@Robhalifax
Since when is progressive bad? The opposite is regressive?
I'm no longer convinced that the BBC is impartial.
I'm also no longer convinced they don't lie.
I am convinced they lie less than most alternatives.
So yes, it is, probably, the most trusted news source, but I would say that doesn't say much.
BREAKING: Man dies after eating five butter sculptures.
now he wishes he could have read the world news instead.
Breaking news, woman falsely reports presence of dog with blue collar passing her window.
Update on Breaking News, Florida Woman make false accusation regarding local dog.
First off US left is considered centrist in EU.
Most EU have a major public TV and radio that at least is supported to be non biased and take pride in digging up dirt on whatever party is in control. It is often the main or secon modt viewed or listen to radio.
I'd rather get my news from a trusted source IE the BBC rather than some YT channel who, usually in my experience, are biased.
I'll stand on this hill and fight to the death - come at me Jean!
I’ve personally never lived anywhere in the UK that doesn’t have a localish newspaper…I say localish because it might be one tha5 now covers a larger area than it once would have. But to be honest, for people like me that don’t live in an area that they grew up in, the local paper isn’t quite as necessary reading as it would be if you grew up in the area due to the intimations (also known as births, deaths, marriages, in memoriam and also sometimes acknowledgements). The intimations are always where you keep track of the people you’ve known through your life and as a teenager (back in the late 80’s and early 90’s), I’d check the intimations at the front and the what’s on guide (normally included on a Thursday in my local paper) towards the back to see what bands were playing locally and that’s about it. I will add though, that here in the UK many of the local newspapers are evening editions that are released for sale in the afternoon. So depending on what time of day she was looking for them, they may just not have been available yet.
I will also add that using the size of the US as an excuse for being insular when it comes to the news that’s being broadcast, is a bit weak. These news networks are churning out news 24 hours a day and instead of ensuring that international, national, state and local news all receive a decent amount of airtime to ensure that their communities receive a well rounded report. They instead concentrate either on really local issues or what is making the country more and more divisive. Here in the UK, I would say that the most watched news on the TV are ones that aren’t on 24 hours news channels, it’s the evening news on BBC1, ITV and Channel Four or the nightly news on BBC1 and ITV, along with the slightly later Newsnight on BBC2. Our main channel news programmes always show the reports in order of what has been deemed most important and may be either national or international and both BBC1 and ITV have local news slots after the national & international news programme. But then there is local radio stations both from the BBC and Commercial Radio, then the BBC also has the Welsh language channel and the Gaelic channel available in Wales and Scotland respectively (I think you can also get them on iPlayer too)…all along with the multiple 24 hour news channels…one o& which is BBC News 24.
You would be very hard pressed to find a copy of the Sun in Liverpool. It has been boycotted for many years because of the lies it published about Liverpool FC fans after the Hillsborough tragedy. A few years ago a newsagent new to the area started to stock it. A local person bought up every copy and dumped them in a rubbish bin outside.
I'm surprised the scouser paid for the papers & didn't pinch em....they're vile...
@@jayb8298 Scousers or the sun?
A major difference between tv news here in Old Blighty and over there in The Colonies is the amount of time given over to news each day.
If you take an ordinary weekday, The BBC on it's two main channels broadcasts over nine hours of news in addition to The BBC News Channel which is now merged with BBC World Service Television. In addition to BBC News, which is the biggest broadcast news organisation in the world, we also have ITV News, Channel 4 News, Channel 5 News and Sky News which is a 24 hours Satellite News Channel.
While American news is skewed heavily on local and national US stories here in the UK we see what happens in different parts of the world every day.
I know which one I prefer.
none?
We do still get local news in the UK but it’s online now rather than a newspaper as it used to be.
I used to work for a local newspaper group. They were owned by The Mirror Group. I have recently seen hard copies of their main county wide paper but the smaller town papers no longer exist as the Internet has made these no longer viable. They used to be very handy for checking out local businesses, local jobs and the local theatre and cinema listing as as well as news. Now all available on your phone. Goodbye job 😢
No! Both the BBC and the ITV stations have free to air local news reports.
Where I live I can watch the BBC's East Midlands Today and ITV's Central Today.
Plenty of local rags still in all my local stores.
Caitlyn is very astute. As a Brit I look for comments that I may disagree with - but almost never can. She is extremely analytical and presents it very professionally.
She didn't mention Channel 5 or ITV news. JJLA, there's at least 2 newspapers that cover the whole of E Anglia. East Anglia Daily Times, and the Eastern Daily Press.
Also Western Daily Press covers the South West from Wiltshire west 😃
BBC radio 4 is amazing...
BBC World Service too
minus the Archers....
Many UK towns and cities have local newspapers.
Exactly.
And she gave the exact numbers of how many regions/areas did, vs how many didn't. More didn't. She never said many don't. She gave you the factual statistic that *most* don't.
In addition, what she didn't say is that most 'Local Papers' are just vessels for generating advertising revenue, have very few if any 'reporters' or journalists of their own, and mostly just rewrite stories that are handed to them or found via other channels.
When I look on the BBC website, I look at national, international and local news
When I look at the BBC website, i throw up .
😂
@@EnochPowellsLibrarian When I look at all your comments on here I just feel very, very sorry for you. You poor deluded fool.
"It'll be like me doing this!"
Proceeds to talk into the bottom of the microphone, not the 'other side'!
Of course, that's such a good photograph of the Radio 4 presenter at work, because it is also being filmed and you can watch it online if you wish! They have the presenters sat around a desk so you'd want your mic set up to pick up the main focal voice from the presenter but also of everyone else around the desk/table!
When I starting visiting the US 20 years ago the lack of international news was starkly obvious
why aren't American children taught critical thinking and researching in high school
Because we have all these squirrels on skateboards to look at! 😂
@@JJLAReacts LOL I would have preferred that if I'm honest, thanks for all your great content you are one of my favourite curators.
We have at least 2 local news papers in my area. But they only print once a week.
I thought an ad for Ground News was coming after the recommendation to get news from the other side.
The fact that the right say that the BBC is bias to the left and the left say the BBC is bias to the right is a good indication that they are pretty none bias.
Exactly, the BBC as an org is pretty neutral. The run of the mill stories on BBC News are balanced. There's unfortunately just a few of the bigger names at BBC news that damage their reputation, such as Laura K.
The BBC is definitely left wing. Quite obviously so.
The BBC's bias is more about what they don't report rather than them biasly reporting items. But the fact so many top names left because of interference is very telling !!!
and don't forget that various governments have packed the BBC with management and "journalists" who "used" to work for Rupert Murdoch. So it is no longer completely unbiased, as it was supposed to be when set up
@@ogribiker8535 Oh yes? Come on then, WHICH 'names' left "because of interference"? Names and dates please.
Britons can relate to international news more, because when a story comes up about a foreign land - we're like "Didn't we used to own that?"
Over the last twenty years local papers have been losing money and some of them have closed down. My local newspaper used to be published every evening. Now it is once a week. Most TV stations have local news following the world news.
fishfinger8441 made a excellent point about Jerermy Paxman , another excellent political commentator is Andrew Neil who ever he was interviewing he had the opposite view , it was great when he interviewed someone from the left and he was coming from the right , he then would interview someone from the right and he would come from the left , all in the same program .
He would of made a excellent PM .
One time he interviewed an American speaker ( young ish and I think Jewish ) he totally wiped the floor with him , the American admitted after the show that he will never ever again do a interview with someone that he hasn't done some good research on them first 😂
Are you referring to Andrew's infamous interview of Ben Shapiro a few years ago when Shapiro had a meltdown, basically accused him and the entire BBC of being commies and walked off?
This epitomises the essential difference between the two countries. The UK is far more interested in International and National news rather than in the US where it’s far more local first, then National with almost no International reporting. This is why the vast majority of Americans are so insular and uneducated about International events and stories.
There is a weekly magazine in the UK called simply "the WEEK"
to reduce bias, it prints a news story stating what each of the newspapers are saying so it gives a more balanced view
Printed newspaper is available for free on buses and in some cafes so I feel like that’s an important point the make when looking at the us vs uk differences in paper consumption. 1 paper here can cover the news for multiple people on public transport daily
This is refreshing to hear Americans actually analysing the situation and not the MAGAnified rubbish
If I’m just aimlessly watching tv and the news comes on, I use that to tell the time 😂😂
“Oh it’s lunchtime? Because this is the lunchtime news”, “it’s 10pm already because it’s the 10pm news”
Madness 😂😂
We tend to get local news letters as apposed to news papers, written by locals as apposed to real reporters.
Do you get worldwide weather disasters such as what is happening in Spain at the moment?
Re: UK newspapers (local Vs national):
I live in Bristol in the SW of England, near South Wales and Somerset.
As far as I can remember, we've always had local newspapers like "The evening post/The Bristol post", "The spark", "The Bristol cable", or local newsletters called "up your street".
I think it really does depend on whete you live, but also your social standing, as in my experience, more working class/poorer people read/comsume local media, vs middle/upper class people who tend/seem to focus more on national media.
I don’t believe that a major event has happened until it’s on the BBC Breaking News. Especially if someone well known (that I take an interest in anyway). Which is part of the reason I nearly have a heart attack any time David Attenborough trends when he doesn’t have a programme on at that time.
In the UK we used to get “local” papers pushed through your door … for free, paid for by advertising, and perhaps a paid for one but they’ve virtually disappeared in my part of the UK.
However, we can still get locally focussed news but it’s online. 🤷🏻♂️
Where once everyone used to know about local events which were happening people are now likely to miss them because they didn’t know about them.
We no longer get a local free newspaper as they have decided to have more of an online presence, but we do get two weekly magazines posted through the door. One is specific to our town and the other about the town next to ours. Both have articles that concentrate on very local news - achievements by local schools, community groups; the local police reports on crime figures; local council news… They also have advertisements for local businesses and events.
@ yeah, we still get a small sized monthly local magazine posted through the door by volunteers with local articles, useful numbers and a brief list of what’s going on. This too is funded by advertisers.
However, it doesn’t really draw you in like the old style “freebie” newspaper did.
There are loads of regional and local papers in the UK, and even more so here in Ireland. I grew up in North Wales and my main sources of print media news were the North Wales Daily Post and the Bangor Chronicle. both of which kept me appraised of local politics and events.
I stopped watching TV news years ago, haven't bought a newspaper in over 30 years, and now just reach for the volume control when radio news appears every half hour during drive time. Remember when Trevor McDonald would end News at Ten with an "and finally" story that'd send you to bed with a smile? Those days are long gone! I'm an #InfoCurator now - I choose exactly what I want to know about and life's so much better for it. Only downside is you can't stop people telling you things you'd rather not hear! 😄
The butter cow sculpture news was truly eye opening I wish we had that in the UK!
Scotland has its own national print media, which is different to England. Unfortunately Wales has very little in National Media - which is an issue when Wales is ignored in the English Media.
I live in Rainham, the London borough of Havering,i know of at least two local papers they come out once a week i think, there may be more
The mic with radio 4 logo is the guest mic. Hers is just visible behind and is fixed to the desk.
Yeah blue and red are the other way round in the UK just to confuse things
😂
Not just in the UK, red was the colour of the left and socialism globally. Blue is less clear cut as an affiliate colour.
The US only started using the colour red for Reps and blue for Dems after their 2000 election when a lot of TV channels used these assigned colours. Prior to that, the colours were often reversed. I'm not sure when the colours were officially adopted but probably in the last 15 years or so. In the recent past anyway.
We might not care that much about local news readers, but they can get a following. A former presenter on Granada (which is north west England on ITV), Lucy Meacock did have a song written about her by comedy folk band The Lancashire Hotpots.
She is lovely, Granada had some great presenter/journalists eg: Tony Wilson.
@ She will forever remind me of going to my grandparents on a Friday night cos they would always have it on.
Online paper, radio and TV, I've dipped into CNN but honestly how many adverts in the USA!! UK covers world events more.
It's actually cool that you yourself highlight how this different focus on local and insular over international and global awareness becomes a deeper cultural bias. You did this when you were surprised over the fact that the US Red vs Blue is different to the UK, and to most of the rest of the world. Despite the fact you've probably heard that the Russians/Communists used to always be called 'The Reds', that Communist flags in Russia, China, and elsewhere are red. That people of Upper classes or 'Noble' backgrounds are called 'Blue Blooded', etc.
All around the world there has been a tendency for Rebels to choose Red. Even the US 'Rebel Flag' was on a red background. Meanwhile any institution that wants to be seen as 'Traditional' (another word for Conservative) often picks Blue - as in Royal Blue, 'True Blue', IBM being 'Big Blue', etc. etc.
How were you not taught this or pick it up? Well, because your teachers, peers, neighbours, etc. were all within the culture that puts Local above National above Global in every sense. They've literally been 'culturally conditioned' that way, and they unconsciously pass it along to the next generation.
UK here
I take a local paper every day. Mainly for the Crossword!! Although there is a fair bit of National content in it too. I noticed on my first visit to the USA back in the early 70's that there were lots of local TV channels even back then
Until the WWW explosion and the likes of You Tube (obviously!) I did take a National Paper
Cant remember the last time I actually switched the 'Telly' on purposely for any News content
In fact until I just watched your reaction to this 'Girl Gone London' y tube I had not given the subject much thought!
Good Video, very interesting J
Just to say been watching for a while
Just Subscribed!
From'Just left of Centre
UK!!😁
I havent bought a newspaper since 2002!
When i watched tv programmes in the US, most of the time in the hour was about medical ads..... haven't watch live there for years., not sure id ever want to!
To understand how we can have so many national daily newspapers it might help to understand that the UK is 60% of the size of California but has more than double the population of that state. To give another example, the UK is just 2% smaller than Oregon but has nearly 18 times more people. Distribution of any national publication is considerably easier in the UK then.
Most people I know in the UK refer to the "Daily Mail" as the "Daily Hate"
Reference: 1984, George Orwell
The Daily Fail or Daily Hail.
We had a local paper till just recently. Now the paper is online. The local news is on every evening prior to the main news which coves world news as well as main news in the UK
In the UK what about the Liverpool Echo,Worcester Evening News, Malvern Gazette, Birmingham News newspapers to name but a few local ones . Then there is the Metro newspaper, free on local transport . You can also add weekly local newspapers. Not forgetting Sunday newspapers.. There are breakfast news programs, of an evening tv channels have half an hour national news,then half an hour of local news at teatime and late evening news as well.
I live in Yorkshire and out of interest we get half an hour local news followed by an hour of National and International stuff
The traditional news outlets in the UK produce some of the greatest pieces of fiction available
The Telegraph is one of the most consistent when it comes to fiction
The Guardian is up there too,along with the Mirror.
@ you can add the Sun, metro The LES and the BBC
It’s all Propaganda
@@EnochPowellsLibrarianNot even close.
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@@EnochPowellsLibrarian Yeah with that username I'm sure you are coming from a nice, unbiased position.
Love your channel (and GGL's) But, pretty sure Radio 4 knows how to use microphones...btw... There isn't much use of using microphones in radio if it's only for the pictures!😉😂
Watching American shows like The Simpsons it seems super weird that they have a TV news channel for the town. The idea of local news is strange.
So you don't have or had a local newspaper to your home town. Or at least an online presence of that local newspaper nowadays.
So definitely not strange
im shocked by the lack of international squirrel skateboard coverage. I mean to say we get local squirrel news of course but also international squirrels, octopus and other animal newsflash/breaking news developments. TBF though, a lot of squirrel news is just nuts.
I watched a documentary about a US news team and the key takeaway was - 60% of the time, it works everytime
I'm from central England and we have a dedicated regional TV channel which is part of ITV network and is dedicated to reporting on local news rather than national and international news these are left for the main ITV network news team to report upon.
The part where she mentions that there isn't many local newspapers in print available. After a quick look online I found almost 20 local Midlands newspapers okay not many are daily newspapers, some are weekly, but I feel like a lot of the other comparisons this lady provides isn't correct entirely and she need to get away from London and into the wilderness of the UK.
Just a couple of quick points, The UK has four full time national radio and TV English language stations plus in Wales Radio Cymru and BBC Cymru ( Welsh Language broadcasting ).My second point is the USA is not a massive or huge country when compared to many Canada, Brazil or China for example and is small when compared to Russia geographically or many other in terms of population.
What?. Canada has far fewer people than the US and saying its not a huge country is absolutely delusional. The US is the 3rd largest country by population in the world.
@@scottneil1187 Well it's not huge compared to Canada and small when compared to Russia. The US population is only a fraction of China or India
I am from London and every borough in London has a local Gazette Newspaper, I no longer live in London I now live in a town in Essex which also has a local Newspaper and when I lived in a town in kent that also has a local Newspaper. The difference I find between local Newspapers and National newspapers is that local newspapers outside of London only cover community things like up and coming things in the areas like Christmas markets, parades and local job vacancies and business advertisers they are very community-based and free they are usually based in a separate part of the super market compared to national newspapers that are sold. Local borough newspapers in London aren't free and tend to cover more controversial news like crime as well as having community stuff like local businesses and political crap. In London, there is also a free newspaper which you can usually pick up on the London Underground called the Evening Standard. I found when the Beer Bug the Big 'C' was around American Broadcasted news was a lot more scare mongering than UK Broadcasting news.
The BBC go out of their way to fact check most of the news. Less spin, less bias.
Even The Sun and Fail fact check at times.
They actually contact BBC journos to check their sources.
Unless it's economic news affecting working people, or the genocide in Gaza.
@@MsPeabody1231 In fact both have been found, in court, to do very little fact checking at all and they regularly lie.
Bullshi*..😂😂....you're an idiot...
UK media is both political and class bias based e.g. Telegraph is upper middle class right wing and GB news is working class right wing
And Channel Four is champagne socialists.
@thostaylor true definitely middle class left wing and the daily mirror working class left wing
My town still has a local printed paper it also has a website. It used to be printed 6 days a week, but for the last few years it has only be printed once a week. It is quite a large town Northampton the county is Northamptonshire im not sure if other towns in my county still have printed papers but they used to. I know when i was a kid/teen we used to have 3 other local weekly newspapers because they were my paper round lol
Have you ever considered that reading competency -- as in newspapers, for example -- is a critical lifeskill? Regardless of the old chestnut that viewing/listening is "more natural" because you don't have to learn a skill (reading) to do it.
If you want a full picture try Ground News. It analyses and allows you to get a full and educated set of news
I've just posted 2 headlines from today. The first from the Washington Post says Trump spoke to Putin on the phone. The 2nd headlines comes from the ITV news which is a UK site which says the Kremlin denies call from Trump..
In the 80s ( yes I am Old ) most people I knew mostly read Local papers - always evening papers - Mostly due to regional differences in ITV scheduling and the weather. I know my parents only got national papers at the weekend.
Local news here is called 'quintessentially British memes'
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Heyy yall,welcome back :)
The US "left wing" is closer to the UK "right wing".
When I lived in Texas, I got the Houston Chronicle. They had local news, which was Houston, National news which was Texas, and International News, that was America. I barely ever saw international news in the paper. I ended up finding a store that carried International papers, French, German and English. They had two English newspapers, the Times and the Telegraph. Once a week I would pay $5 for a Telegraph (and this was in the early 90s!)!
The BBC is meant to be impartial/unbiased so neither left, centre or right. If you believe that depends on who you ask. I was shocked when I watched the "news" in America.
She's speaking into the back of the mike, because they want the logo facing the camera.
I'm thankful for tv news here, how bad would it be to get international news from the likes of T rump?
The Guardian used to be a Liberal newspaper but got highjacked by the left. When I was in LA . many years ago I brought back to England their weekend newspaper via a vending machine. It was enormous, at least 2 inches thick and was pretty weighty. In films you can still see news boys on bicycles throwing rolled a papers onto lawns.
It's so funny when incels make provably wrong and dishonest comments here.
The biggest problem I have with the UK News is the ridiculous level of coverage of the US election.
We definitely still have local newspapers, although they are usually only printed weekly rather than daily. But TBF the UK is about the size of Oregon and I'm guessing statewide news would class as local news?
Because the UK has a far more effective public transportation system many people commute to work on these systems and these often give out free printed news papers or have news stands to pick up printed news papers. This has helped keep the print version of the news going, compared to the states who commute to work far less than the average UK citizen.
Don't forget the centre of the USA and of the UK are definitely not in the same place! the uk centre is left of the US centre