World Service cuts will reduce UK's global 'soft power', BBC report warns
[size=1.125]Corporation’s Future of News report warns of ‘dangerous and disparate’ threat to independent and reliable world news from well-funded Chinese and Russian state broadcasters [size=1.125]The BBC has warned the government that its global news presence will end up marginalised by overseas rivals such as Russia Today and al-Jazeera unless multimillion-pound cuts are reversed.[size=1.125]The report said the World Service was under increasing pressure from big state-sponsored rivals, such as al-Jazeera and Russia Today, both of which now have UK operations, and China Central Television, as well as digital platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter. “China, Russia and Qatar are [color=rgb(28, 125, 255) !important][backcolor=transparent !important]investing in their international channels in ways that we cannot match, but none has our values and our ability to investigate any story no matter how difficult,” said the report.
Highlighting Russia and Turkey, it said “in many parts of the world, there is not more free expression but less”. John Whittingdale, chair of the Commons culture, media and sport select committee, said last month it was “frightening” how the World Service was being “outgunned massively by the Russians and the Chinese”. ****************** ..bila RTM nak buat world services? inilah masanya MULAYU KU PERLU BANGKIT...
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