Yeah, let’s make it a commercial station. That’ll encourage objectivity.accountability

Just fixed that for you.

Fox and MSNBC are accountable at the very least to their shareholders and advertisers.

The BBC is accountable only nominally to the british government of the day.

Imagine a US Government where the (Judicial branch) Supreme Court chooses the leaders of the (Legislative branch) Senate and it’s committee chairs, the House and it’s committee chairs, the (Executive branch) President, and all of his cabinate positions. Those positions that are voted on by the people, well, the Judicial branch gets to select which names appear on the ballot.

Viola…Iran.

percysunshine on April 26, 2008 at 12:47 PM

Good description.

When is the BBC not shilling for tyrants and despots?

Badger in KC on April 26, 2008 at 11:25 AM

Yeah, that about sums it up. Kind of a “dog bites man” story.

Many reformist candidates had been disqualified from standing in the election by the country’s non-elected Guardian Council.

No wonder the Beeb loves Obama so much. Obama/Chicago = Ahmadinejad/Iran. He’s a perfect fit.

Will Obama ever recognize this fact?

You may not have noticed, but Ed just did do better… and from home, too.

Of course, you didn’t notice, because it doesn’t fit your iron-clad preconceptions.

Yeah, let’s make it a commercial station. That’ll encourage objectivity. Maybe all you cheeto-stained blog critics should go to Iran to cover the elections if you think you can do it better.

I thought the coverage was fine. As lexhamfox point out, Ed didn’t even read the article fully.

Still the BBC ought to be made a commercial station just for the fact that its wrong to charge the British public money to fund a partisan, leftist news channel.

Would you, as a lib, want your tax money to pay for Fox News?

The entire organisation should be privatised or disbanded

Yeah, let’s make it a commercial station. That’ll encourage objectivity. Maybe all you cheeto-stained blog critics should go to Iran to cover the elections if you think you can do it better.

I find the same crowd that swoons over NPR is also weak kneed about the BBC, more preachin’ to the choir!

dmann on April 26, 2008 at 12:40 PM

Not at all surprising-the Beeb started a partnership with NPR way back in the early 1990s. It started with them partnering with the flagship station in Boston, and it was all downhill from there.

Coincidentally, that’s about the same time Auntie Beeb went into the loo.

The entire organisation should be privatised or disbanded – there is no excuse for a taxpayer funded western media organisation that represents nothing so much as Al Jazeera. BBC reporter Orla Guerin crying over Yasser Arafat’s funeral really told you all you needed to know about the BBC.

Conservatives = bad guys.

I was reading some text the other day that briefly discussed the French Revolution. At the beginning of the revolution it referred to the evil monarchy as “conservatives” and the revolutionaries as “liberals.” But after the Reign of Terror, suddenly the revolutionaries were “conservatives” and The Directory were “reformers.”

the Guardian Council holds all of the real power in Iran.

That’s what’s so wonderful about dictatorships (or oligarchy, or whatever). You don’t have to have an election to determine the will of the people, you just have to ask the Grand Poobah’s. (To paraphrase Jimmy Carter)

..And yes, I’ll go find the friggin’ link in the morning..

Viola…Iran.

I find the same crowd that swoons over NPR is also weak kneed about the BBC, more preachin’ to the choir!

I guess one fraud cannot recognize another.

Ahmadinejad, an obscure mayor

He was mayor of Tehran, hardly obscure.