The BBC is not government funded, and all television news in the UK, including Murdoch's Sky News is required by law to be unbiased.
If it's a choice between the BBC and the constant, blatant, society distorting lies you see in American "News", I'll take my Orwellian dystopia thanks.
They are only required to provide "balanced" coverage during an election, nothing more. The BBC is absolutely biased, as was made clear during the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum. The distortions and outright lies they continually produced were astonishing to me.
You can see plenty examples of this at Wings Over Scotland (which I know is biased, but is also scrupulously accurate)
Ah, I was thinking of the election rules where they are required to give a representative amount of time to each party, not the impartiality rules which, frankly, are vague to the point of uselessness.
