Whilst the Tory (sorry, Coalition) government ponders how it can best use next year's BBC licence fee negotiations to eviscerate the corporation, it's worth, for a few moments, taking a short e-trip over to the USA, where we can get some examples of balanced, impartial, well-considered commentary on the NHS in their media. My personal faves include the following gems:
- Fox News on why the NHS means that Britain produces Muslim terrorists
- How everyone in Britain now accepts that the NHS has comprehensively failed and that we should follow the (not at all chaotic, inefficient and profoundly unfair) US system
- Why Obama's new head of Medicare is a socialist (because he once said something kinda nice about the NHS)
It's a sad fact of the US that its media culture is utterly dominated not only by loony outlets like Fox News, but countless 'independent' think tanks and so-called academic research institutions like the Manhattan Institute... a torrent of right-wing noise punctured once in a while by the occasional (often milder) voice of reason.
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