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>>nemoni+(OP)
People talk about misinformation on Facebook, but the British media are guilty of promoting criminals and fraudsters via news stories about their "success".

For example, my local newspaper published a number of articles about a "successful" trader who was offering training programmes. Last month he was sentenced to three years in prison for fraud.

There are numerous examples of this and even "reality" TV shows promoting these people as successful or rich, it is about time the media are held to account.

>>ID1452+Ka
From the article: > Continuing cuts to BBC budgets and deep job cuts, caused by successive licence fee freezes, have been blamed for recent errors in the corporation’s news output, especially in regional English newsrooms.

That is the main piece of news as far as I can see. (Maybe it's not news for those who have followed the British media more closely than me.) The BBC does have some internal standards, but is increasingly unable to follow them because of budget cuts by the government, leading to lack of internal quality control.

>>gpvos+jj
I don't believe so, their decline of quality and trustworthiness has been going on longer than cuts to the license fee.

I also don't feel that the license fee represents value for money anymore.