An email from a traveling reader gives you the picture:
We headed to the Alps, me shaken by the simplicity and vacuousness of the “arguments”. There, I had my first chance to truly experience the BBC – the only English-speaking channel that we got.
“Shocking” is one adjective that comes to mind. I now understand your reference to “Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation”. Every reporter, every desk anchor, every clip – and I mean every – pleaded the case not to bring military force to enforce the resolutions against Iraq. At times, the desperation to find someone to support this position bordered on a piece from “the Onion”: “we are here in Pennsylvania with Quaker school children who are against the war”… – really.
Even more offensive than the position that simply defy logic is the arrogance of the reporting. I saw an open forum involving the Prime Minister and some reporter from the BBC named “Jeremy”. I have never witnessed less respect for a nation’s leader than that which I saw during this forum. “Jeremy’s” disdain for Blair was palpable as he spit idiotic questions/statements at the Prime Minister: “we were told where the weapons were, we sent the inspectors there, and they found nothing: how do you explain that?”
Abolition of the BBC is essential to any serious political reform in Britain.
The Dish 