BBC WATCH

Two small items from last week. As this blog recently lamented, the BBC has just produced a dramatic series designed to defend and glamorize the famous Communist spy ring that infiltrated M.I.6 during the Cold War. One astute analyst of the script has described it as little more than “KGB propaganda.” Stalin, Saddam … idealists and patriots all. Then there was the classic BBC description of the looting that occurred after the liberation of Baghdad. The news organization pronounced that Iraqis were now living in “more fear than they have ever known.” The Blair government protested the coverage.