Government Information TV Station.

Dictatorship is only if forced to do something against your will. This would help a lot of people cope with life as not everyone can get on with computers and there are lots of folk who are low intelligence or mild mental health problems, special needs etc who would find it very helpful. It should be free, as I said paid for from advertising, and a high degree of accuracy. It would also make more jobs.

As I said above, not purely benefits. I agree to an extent but recently my ex daughter in law received £20,000 for years of underpayment of her benefits. She is housebound. She did not apply just received a letter to say it would be in her account.

Many people still do not have computers, especially elderly. They wouldn't know their Google from their armpit as you can see from questions on here. Young people don't know how to cook so a proper show teaching basics like shepherds pie in real time would be helpful. The very fact it was government run would ensure it is not wrong advice. More likely to get bad advice on social media.

Lynibis like I’ve said, if it’s government run, it can be incomplete and/or inaccurate advice - and it’s motivated by political intent. It’s better to seek advice from a third party, although I’d admit that’s not easy for some. Social media has its pros and cons, just like anything on the internet - you have to use your own judgment to work out what’s useful and what’s not - but it’s still a powerful tool, and I wish I’d had it when I was a student to showcase all the student discount and deals I could have benefited from

Exactly my point Johnny. I knew nothing of any of this and a lot of elderly especially would not have a clue how to find that information. It would not be one doctor airing their own views but generally accepted, proven and up to date news about current treatment and break throughs.

I went for a flu jab recently and off the cuff the nurse asked if I had the pneumonia jab. I had no idea one even existed and everyone is entitled at age 65. Also as I said previously many older folk simply do not use computers or tablets. I have 2 friends my age who can barely manage email and a site like LD would totally fry their brain. I have offered lessons but they adamantly refuse.

No one is suggesting this station should be compulsory viewing but just there along with all the others with a programme menu so people could watch whatever they were interested in or needed help with.

It could also be useful for party political broadcasts so they don't interrupt normal viewing on the popular channels. They would have to air them all in one block to avoid cries of unfairness of one has a more popular time lol!

Lynibis The problem with TV is 'blink and you miss it' or go and make a cup of tea and you miss it, and that video footage is hard / expensive to correct or update. So if you weren't watching the 'pneumonia jab' episode on a Tuesday morning for example - it might not be on again for months, if ever.

The internet (the world's biggest library) doesn't have that problem. You can view and search the internet whenever you like, and hone in on what's specifically relevant to you.

And the problem with the Internet (as you have identified) is that many people of a certain age, roughly 70+, aren't computer savvy. It's unfortunate, but frankly many elderly folk have now missed the (internet) boat, and will have to rely on their younger computer savvy friends and relatives to help them access information, or get face to face help from their CAB or GP. Fast forward another 15 years or so and almost everyone will be computer literate and internet savvy.

Here's a few stats:

• In Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2017, 89% of adults in the UK had recently used the internet (in the last 3 months), up from 88% in 2016; while 9% had never used the internet, down from 10% in 2016.
• Virtually all adults aged 16 to 34 years were recent internet users (99%), in contrast with 41% of adults aged 75 years and over.
• 90% of men and 88% of women were recent internet users, up from 89% and 86% in 2016.
• Recent internet use among women aged 75 and over had almost trebled from 2011.
• 22% of disabled adults had never used the internet in 2017, down from 25% in 2016.

By the way, the NHS site has a big library of new articles already (almost 5,000):

https://www.nhs.uk/news/

Also for my circumstances, it’ll never work as the tv will only broadcast in English, so there will still be many communities who miss out (some might argue that they ought to have a thoro understanding of English to be here, but my argument would be that even people born and bred here may still lack an understanding of the language)