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Would it be alright if I create a "channel4news" community? (feddit.uk)

submitted 4 weeks ago by tetris11@feddit.uk to c/feddituk@feddit.uk

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I quite like channel's 4 coverage over certain topics, it feels sometimes more impartial and more nuanced than BBC News.

They are quite left-leaning, which is great news for me, but I fear others might raise some eyebrows and feel the need to open more right-leaning communities (e.g. "gbnews" "channel5news" etc.) which might then heavily politicize/polarize this somewhat tame server, and also start making it overall more news-oriented, which is always a bad sign.

Yay or nay?

For context this is what I wanted to post on feddit.uk but couldn't find a suitable comm:
https://feddit.uk/post/44877928

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[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 4 points 4 weeks ago

I'd just go ahead and do it :)

[–] flamingos@feddit.uk 4 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Go ahead. A GB News comm would be in conflict with rule 4 anyway.

[–] fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 2 points 4 weeks ago

Of the Feddit.uk sidebar rules? Also rules 1 and 2.

[–] Zombie@feddit.uk 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

https://feddit.uk/c/britishtelly

This exists and I see no rules against politics or news there. Might be better to contribute to an existing comm than make a new one from scratch that is incredibly niche, and as you say would open up the idea of mouthpieces for propagandists

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 6 points 4 weeks ago

I like the idea of this, but it just feels misaligned content-wise: I'm seeing mostly links about TV shows but not the videos themselves, and it's a wide range of topics. It's not a comm I'm subscribed to myself mostly because I think it's too general in scope