[SevenofNine]

Got ping Brit Freepers on this

[Echo Talon]

hmm seem like this sort of thing is like the plague, and it has already infected the globe... institutional leftism...

[Texas Eagle]

The BBC's world is one in which America is always wrong, George W. Bush is a knuckle-dragging simpleton, people of faith are frightening ignoramuses, and capitalism is a rot on the fabric of social justice.

It really is a small world after all.

[struwwelpeter]

Last year BBC's Russian language service, looked at various Russian newspapers and examined the 'americaphobia' that was growing out of the Iraq war. One nailed it:

"What did the propagandistic CNN and BBC make out of the eve of the war? They converted the Anglo-Saxons into a giant and evil Goliath, and Iraq was given the role of a the frail little shepherd boy David. Right or wrong - that's another question. And when they refer (to the subjects in this manner), then it is understandable why the sympathies of the majority of television viewers has proven to be on the side of Iraq." (Wrote Yuri Bogomolov of Izvestiya)

[Glyndwr4Cymru]

"Britain's taxpayer-funded behemoth, arguably the most powerful media brand in the world, sports a worldview remarkably at odds with a good percentage of the population to whom it purportedly answers."

Precisely.

[driftless]

American tv is just as bad as the Beeb and sometimes worse. Many times American tv does not even bother to try to disguise its leftism. And it permeates even things like true-crime shows like "City Confidential". I was watching an episode a while back and at the start of the show, the narrator, Paul Winfield, was describing the city involved, which I forget, and some local characters. The time was 1982. The writers of the show apparently felt that only liberals watch true-crime shows because in his opening narration, Winfield mentioned the nation being in the grip of Reagan's "voodoo economics". I wanted to throw a brick threw the tv screen. Incredible bias, but like the lefties at the Beeb, they most likely believed that everybody thought Reagan's economic plans, which rescued the country from Carter's stupidity, was a joke. This leftist worldview permeates a great deal of American tv.

I was watching a show on the military channel the other day, "Fields of Armor", that focused on Vietnam. That episode could have been written by Noam Chomsky. The South Vietnamese leaders were depicted as cruel autocrats, while the NV commies and Ho Chi Minh were characterized as democratic patriots who kicked out all the evil invaders namely the U.S. and the French. The Military Channel, for crying out loud, would be the last place one would think would be one place where lefties would not be in control. I was wrong.

There's also that show "Military Blunders (?)". One episode had kicking the Cubans out of Grenada shown as a huge blunder. Of course Reagan was the president at the time. The lefties are not just in the mainstream news or entertainment. They've even wormed themselves into shows about our military. They're like a bacteria that is everywhere.

[sphinx]

I met a couple of NPR staffers recently, my first encounter with the breed. (I don't move in media circles.) They truly see themselves as middle of the road. They're so deep inside their little bubble that they have no clue. I imagine the BBC staff is much the same.

[FreedomPoster]

"institutionalized leftism"

Nice.

I'm going to use that, frequently, from now on. It well-describes the L/MSM and academe, just for starters.

I encourage others to do the same.

[Frumious Bandersnatch]

U.S. Republicans sprinkle Third World children over their Cheerios for breakfast.

ROTFLOL. Sure has a gift with the verbiage.