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Sponsors and media bias

think especially with sky they probably have some sponsors yeah exactly and they have to yeah and a lot of the the people that run these companies have shares in certain things...

Course: Big questions in societySection: How Britons consume and trust newsSubtitles: en

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think

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especially with sky they probably have

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some sponsors yeah exactly and they have

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to

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yeah and a lot of the the people that

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run these companies have shares in

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certain things okay so you're very aware

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of this when you're watching the news

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yeah and so for instance the um the

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whole petrol situation yeah i think

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you know if um the the news kind of the

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newspapers

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dictated that a lot and scare-mongered

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people into going to the petrol station

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yeah and

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have they not done that people wouldn't

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have known to do that can you give us

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like a really just like brief

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like like you're a newscaster what was

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like what was that kind of situation

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that happened yeah can you explain what

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happened with this the petrol shop um

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well i think that um

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i think that in the morning the

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newspaper is sending out a message that

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you should go to the petrol station and

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fill up your tanks before it all runs

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out basically made people scared

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especially a certain generation of

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people maybe that read the newspaper all

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the time and um listen to that sort of

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news and they they ran to the petrol

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station

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and and now that and then the petrol

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diesel prices went up

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um and so

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people that maybe were in charge of

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those

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