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MSM wars? Times savages BBC

This from today's Times:

"You really do have to leave the country to appreciate fully how pernicious the BBC’s grasp of the nation’s cultural and political soul has become. The groupthink and assumptions implicit in almost everything broadcast by BBC News, and even less explicitly by much else of the corporation’s output, lie like a suffocating blanket over the national consciousness."

 Good fun to read, especially for the mention of the New York Times, of all organs, having a bash at al-Beeb for being too antiWestern. Click here to read the whole thing, it's quite amusing.

Posted on Friday, March 16, 2007 at 04:04PM by Registered CommenterMr Smith in | Comments2 Comments

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Here's the OpEd piece from the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/15/opinion/15stewart.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
You will notice that it is not the NYT "having a bash at al-Beeb" but a contributor, Frank H. Stewart, who is a professor in the department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a visiting scholar at New York University.

Friday, March 16, 2007 at 04:57PM | Unregistered CommenterAlan McDonald
I dont think that was the central theme so much Mr Smith but i did like its acknowledgement that London is the best capital city in the world (course!). Who gives a monkies arse what the NYT think - dreadful paper. However i thought it was funny that he was a bit slow on the uptake about Biased BBC? Slow to catch on but got there in the end. The Times also covered the student censorship issue which is great for the UK - as it is important this issue is exposed for a wider audiences appreciation.

I LOVED his remark about Helen Mirren - I heard that interview also and now LOVE Ms Mirren for trashing the snobby interviewer whose assumptions are typical of the loony left.

God Save the Queen!
Friday, March 16, 2007 at 05:03PM | Unregistered Commenteralison
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