[DManA]

It seems like I hear a lot more Posh British accents on Big Media lately. Just my impression backed up by nothing.

[hinckley buzzard]

It seems like I hear a lot more Posh British accents on Big Media lately

You may be right. A large population of insecure Americans automatically think someone with a British accent is speaking with authority or superior wit. I can only speculate why this should be, but I've seen it, and so too the media moguls must know all about it.

[Little Bill]

They're just trying to separate themselves from the riff raff. From my experience only a small number of people in England speak what we would recognize as English, Toffs and Poofs as it was explained to me.