[the Real fifi]

And I will remind you that the BBC coverage was so laughably biased that the UK servicemen threw the BBC crew off their ship and tuned into Fox.

Gilligan, at the heart of this mess, was broadcasting the Coalition was failing in its advance at the very moment Fox's Kelly was on a tank in the heart of Baghdad.

It is so vehemently anti-Semitic that it broadcast a program in which the speaker called for the murder of emigrees to Israel from the UN, punished a comedian who made fun of jihadis, and just hired someone from Al-Jazeera .

[tjwmason]

And I will remind you that the BBC coverage was so laughably biased that the UK servicemen threw the BBC crew off their ship and tuned into Fox.

When did I claim that the B.B.C. News was unbiased?

What we need to do is to turn the board of governors into a supervisory board which is independent of the day-to-day work; as hinted at by the leader of the Conservative Party (or would you turn him into a leftist too).

My point is that the structure of the B.B.C. permits high-quality broadcasting. I am wondering how many commercial broadcasters would run the B.B.C. Proms, which are acknowledged as the world's greatest music festival. I am wondering how many commercial broadcasters would produce channels such as B.B.C.4, and B.B.C. Radio3 & 4, because none of the British commercial ones get even close.

You are attacking one element of the B.B.C., i.e., slack control of newsbias, and then you use that to attempt to destroy the whole system. The B.B.C. carries 120 hours of national radio every day; and I am guessing around 100 hours of television; you are talking about one tiny part of that. The answer is to remedy the problem, not turn the whole thing commercial, and let it still stay left-wing.