Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin

Ha, only one Derren Brown complaint in the "How to Control The Nation" segment, and that wasn't even for the subliminals or the "gluing" of people to chairs . "Generally Accepted Standards". Obviously a non glued individual

Religious Offence on BBC Parliament? Hmm, I'd love to know more.
Sex/Nudity on Deal or No Deal. One way to crank the Banker's offers up I suppose.
Bit concerned about "Offensive Language" on a Garfield cartoon. Fortunately not in breach but if we go down this route for kiddie telly it'll only be a matter of time before all the violence is chopped out of Tom & Jerry cartoons.

Dangerous Behaviour in the episode of Watchdog of September 10th. That was the first episode of the current series so it can only be that one-sided report on sunbeds that's been flagged up. Surprised more people didn't complain about the visual quality of the studio segments in that episode.

Everyone know HE's SO right wing he falling off the side of the broad. I;m not sure what ofcom can do, with him being in the usa.

O'Reilly Factor is probably classed as opinion which means by the very nature of the word "opinion" means it's going to be skewed one way or another. Which is probably the sort of thing you'd expect to see on Fox News with the slogan "Fair and Balanced" when it clearly isn't. Why the FCC lets this charade go on is anybody's guess.

But under Ofcom rules, opinions must be balanced, with no one point of view given greater prominence than another. So I'm quite surprised that Fox News has got away with it for so long.

Clearly sticking to the Ofcom code isn't going to be a constant pressing concern in the offices of Fox News, but AIUI as the channel is uplinked in the UK, so they still have to comply, and could be fined - or in the most extreme scenario could have their licence to broadcast in the UK revoked.

Fox have had complaints before which mainly haven't been upheld. I think Ofcom have agreed with Fox that their opinions are clearly flagged as such, and the complaints have seldom been about their core news reporters.

I suspect that a complaint of impartiality on Fox News would be upheld if it was covering British current affairs, especially during an election. However most of the impartial nonsense they put out doesn't really affect us over here

But surely all opinions have to be balanced with an opposing point of view to provide a balance. Are there some anti-Republican, left-wing tirades I've missed?

Sounds a bit like Ofcom can't be arsed.

NBC are like, I'm lead to believe, but It does open up a question does these rules only apply to UK? Chinnese news could get done, for not being fair.......

That's not the case in US broadcasting, the 'Fairness Doctrine' which enforced balance was abolished in 1987 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_doctrine

I would have to laugh at anyone who took anything that anyone on Fox News seriously. They don't report news, they make the news!

LOL, I'd agree with that one

Aren't News International campaigning for that to be dropped here too, so basically Sky could declare it's support for the Tories at the election in the same way The Sun have jumped on the bandwagon.