Re: don't trust em...
As it is now officially the weekend, and I will not be responding any more to this thread, please accept an upvote and a virtual pint!
The only thing I would add is that media controlled by big business is almost as bad; in this respect the BBC is a rare thing, being state-owned but not state-controlled (although the Tories are working on it) and truly independent (it gets as many accusations from the left about being right-wing biased as it does from the right about being left-wing biased, suggesting it is, if not totally objective, at least biased to a fairly neutral standpoint).