Television in the United Kingdom 4 Corp, according to BARB's viewing figures for January 2018. On 18 January 2011, then Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Hunt announced his intentions to set up a network of local television stations across the UK. The initial plan was to create a network of local television stations, connected through a national backbone. This plan would create a television network similar to that of the network-affiliate model in the United States and Canada. In June 2011, however, it was announced that the national spine plan would be scrapped, and a 'bottom-up' approach would be followed instead,
Media bias in the United States bubbles are an extent to framing. Filter bubbles are what companies such as Facebook and Google use to filter out the content that user might not agree with or find disturbing. Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky in their 1988 book "" proposed a propaganda model to explain systematic biases of U.S. media as a consequence of the pressure to create a stable and profitable business. In this view, corporate interests create five filters that bias news in their favor. Part of the propaganda model is self-censorship through the corporate system (see corporate censorship); that reporters and especially editors share