If ones tracks “Have Your Say” roundups, one notes that the liberal-leaning comments are placed to the front about 75% of the time, with the conservative comments at the end.

I’ve studied the BBC’s reports on Katrina over the last few weeks. I perceive them not so much Anti-American as Anti-Federal Administration. They completely avoid discussing the balance of federal, state, and local powers, creating the appearance that emergency response is the sole responsibility of the federal.

In many cases, Bush’s name is inserted where the word “federal fovernment” or “state government” would be a more accurate choice. When Presidental popularity polls are cited, the BBC consistently chooses the lowest poll results of the 6-8 major polls conducted over the week period.

The BBC can never win — when Labour is in power they are accused of being anti-Labour, when the Tories are in power, they are anti-Tory, so I guess that means that they are pretty fair.

By the way, I am a journalist. Paid to do it. Unlike you.

Also, my personal politics (something I would never say in broadcast but will let you know here because you accuse me of being a neo-con) are burningly dyed-in-the-wool liberal. I have never, ever, ever voted Republican. I hate Drudge, but I read him to know where my enemies lie. I hate Fox News, and hate them so much that I actually quit a Fox affiliate job in Nashville, TN because of the improper political spin they put on everything (I took the job before the corporation offered the uber-Right opinion about everything, besides it was local).

So if you haven’t walked out of a job for journalistic integrity, then you really, really, really don’t know what it is like to jump off a financial cliff to do the right thing and be objective.

So people like you should learn that when Bill Clinton says that the BBC coverage of the hurricane is being mean and unfair, then perhaps, that even from a strong liberal perspective like Clinton’s, it is.

I didn’t tape the conversation in the car, I couldn’t. I didn’t have the ability.

Also, I would say this. As a person that writes into and out of people’s words every day, I know what their tone was. I understood what they were saying.

It was, in fact, derogatory and insulting. Period.

P.S. I too have a battery television in the dash of my car. It takes 3 AA batteries. Runs for hours. Check em out at Target.

The show transitioned into a talk segment, and all it referred to was the stupidity of living below sea level. The inherent failures and terrible behavior of the US Govt. It was obvious that the tone was “you deserved it for who you are.” Again and again, this was a session where I felt as though, as an American, I wanted to reach through the radio and strangle the living hell out of those radio personalities. Some of them were BBC paid.

Look, it is one thing to be Rush Limbaugh, it is another thing to be an insensitive, hate spewing Rush Limbaugh-like and be supported financially by a governmental entity.

I wish I had a recording of what was said. I would play it for you. Needless to say, I don’t think I will ever trust that the BBC in a blanket, we’re objective kind of tone. I wish I could have called in to that program, I would have given them a piece of my mind, for all of their insensitive, oafish, smug, ‘They got what they deserved’ talk that they brought up.

Disgusting. And I used to read the BBC everyday. I used to trust them. I’ll be damned if I’ll listen to them now.

Perhaps you missed my quote from no less than Bill Clinton, no friend of Bush, criticizing the BBC for their reporting.

Do you read you ever read/watch anything besides the BBC for a more balanced perspective? Bet not. Better to keep your insular universe intact.

Come on Gunther give Jarvis some credit…he saw it on drudge so why would he need to do any fact checking.

Hilarious!!! But are they on to the frauds they have perpetrated. Like Putin’s autocratic dismissal of regional governor elections, illegally repatriating YUKOS back to the state for his lackeys to plunder, his human rights violations in Chechnya? Perhaps you haven’t been aware of the recent Liberal Party scandals in Canada?

Hugo Chavez is a autocratic psychopath anyway you slice or dice it. The EU’s stagnant economics and bureacratic bloated problems aren’t anything to be commended.

Apparently you don’t seem to be on to fraud outside of your singularly focused and not well researched universe of the lame hachneyed Bush/Cheney-ruined-my-life/world/whatever.

Well, Gunther, even Bill Clinton thought the coverage was biased also:

“Bill Clinton, the former US president, and Sir Howard Stringer, chief executive of Sony Corporation, also criticised the tone of the BBC’s coverage during a seminar on the media at the Clinton Global Initiative conference in New York.

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Please. Creating for grandma a cool spot in the Paris heatwave isn’t exactly in the same league as organizing survival for a category 4 hurricane which will soon physically destroy the city.

If the French couldn’t save grandma with cars, hospitals, roads and powerlines intact just what would those moron’s do if faced with Katrina? Surrender as always? They seemed to have surrendered to the weatherman.

Dying in sweltering heat when there aren’t 120 mile an hour winds and flooding outside blocking rescuers is just stupid. The French deserve to be sneered at.

Personally – probably some anti-americanism in the world press. Probably some schadenfreude. Probably some nationalism. Probably some honest reporting. And probably some disillusionment. It’s not a simple either/or.

while people drowned while the cameras rolled

that president/figurehead is ripe for criticism by the media, foreign and domestic.

to even think the word “anti-american” is just as lame as thinking the word “unpatriotic” to people who criticize a war based on lies.

when bushie said “you’re either with us or against us” i had no idea how many intelligent people would drink that super big gulp of kool aid.

fascinating how many are still drinking it.

A reporter made a sweeping pronouncement that Americans are losing faith in the President to contend with emergencies such as this, then offered a terribly clipped version of the nursing home tragedy. *We* know that the owners of the nursing home are already targetted for litigation. But they pointedly left that part out and presented it as a mystery. “No one knows” how such a thing happened, but in context of the schpiel on Bush, it was implied that it was one more terrible thing that happened because of his incompetence.

It’s like an amplified version of the leftist response at home, stripped of any pretense of rational criticism. Pure pig piling.

BBC Coverage and the Economist Article are both on target and accurate. The cats been out of the bag big time since Abu Graib: that was the defining moment in world sentiment. Watch PBS Frontline, all the world’s dictators and despots were created and fuded by our government.

Welcome to Web 2.0, image making is over: Europen Union and Canada, Russia and Venezuela are on to the fraud of Bush/Cheney. China, Japan and Saudia Arabia are in blind denial and continue to buy our Treasury debt which finances our incompetence, war profiteering and special interest corporate profits. We have the highest per capita (that’s per person) spending on healthcare while not having Universal Healthcare and the most uninsured. We are a not the great nation that our well-polished media convey. I say this out of love for the US and as a Patriot, what do we have that Canada and France do not. Our processed food and mass culture have spread: the exception is the the intellectuals and artists of course. We need to change our government together. We need to open source our government.

Here’s an idea: with Web 2.0, raising big money will become unnecessary to run for office. We can connect 24/7 at negligible cost. It will no longer take 30M to run for office. Let’s build up organic support for candidates with integrity online. The only issue is that we are out-numbered by deluded bible thumpers. Bush still has 40% support. His support should be 0%!

With Web 2.0, the Bush/Cheney Rackateering Operation has been exposed though still continues. Rove had a Texas state staff member who questioned his voting record in Texas, fired with just a quick phone call. That’s how the mob works: she was wacked Bush style. All the cronyism is beyond disguting and dangerous. Bush/Cheny are guiltyof RICO Rackateering. I’m tired of empty gestures. Are you? Let’s tip this cow over.