Horse excrement - all you are intending to do is beat Britain with the anti-semitism stick and you're not enjoiyng it when I point out that there is a problem in the States as well. If you're going to talk about the UK, climb off your high horse before you do so.
Might I remind you that the US does not have Europe’s sordid past with regards to anti-Semitism. Thus cause for alarm is greater when things escalate in Europe.
Britain did not fall to Nazism, and the Fascists in the UK were a fringe element. There have been British heroes of Jewish origin extending from Benjamin Disraeli to Harold Abrahams that few countries in Europe can lay claim to.
As to CNN, your link is from 1998. And the BBC has much worse grades from Jewish watchdog groups recently if you follow such things. In addition the 1998 link is about CNN International which is, as I acknowledged earlier, worse than the US CNN. You get CNN I in UK. Nevertheless BBC is still worse than CNN I. Further are you following the recent “housecleaning at CNN?”
Yes I am. However I sincerely doubt you are going to continue to find anything less than hostile to Israel attitudes out of the likes of Peter "I dated Hanan Asrhawi" Jennings, and the American press. I refuse to accept that this is just a BBC problem - yes, it is a problem they have, but to ignore the fact that it is a Mainstream Media problem is dishonest.
And I already said the UK is not going to “hell in a handbasket.” So stop mischaracterizing what I did say.
I'll believe you're honest if you stop referring to anti-Semitism as a particular problem for the UK - it's a problem for many countries, including the United States.
Ivan
hmm one more point. Can you imagine any reason that CNN International shown in UK would be more anti-Israel than the CNN shown in the US?
and Peter Jennings is mild compared to the UK press.
Have you forgotten the BBC's very own "Brooklyn born Israeli settlers should be shot" Tom Paulin. No, I'm happy to say we have nothing comparable even in the worst of our MSM.
Check this out:
http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/critiques/Dishonest_Reporting_-Award-_for_2001.asp
http://www.bbcwatch.com/old.html