Mmmm . . . my expectations are being bucked at the moment. That's nice. I do hope it's for real. What's been disturbing me about the Honduras coverage is the way the BBC jumped right into the coup - yesterday morning, they were calling Zelaya 'the former president' and Michiletti 'the new president'. Given what happened in Venezuala you'd think they'd be a little more careful to hedge their bets in cases like these - but this is the Internet age and all you have to do is change the text after Barack Obama bucks expectations and talks about terrible precedents. Which they have done.
The BBC has such great coverage in terms of having news gatherers everywhere, but it is highly politicised. Inevitable, I guess. Most state-owned media are, in a more or less but generally less way than private media, because taxpayers are so happy to cry foul. The interesting thing here is that it looks like a sort of inertia, rather than a particular agenda, just sort of drifted the BBC into saying the coup was an accomplished fact . . . and then they could just rewrite their language when they realize that no, the hegemons weren't supporting it this time. Inertia. Such a powerful social force.
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Mom never went ot school, so explaining politics are sometimes hard. But one thing is easy - since the BBC was pointedly anti Nationalist duing the toubles in Northern Ireland, my Mom always knew about press bias . So, it's always easy to point out where the press are reporting what they are told/pressed to report. The trick is that so many Americans actually blieve that the news they are being stuffed w/ is somehow not biased towards the corprate eilte.
having ssaid that, our press is so bad, it's actually a miricle to hace BBC here - as bad as it is, it's still bette than American Telly.
And I am an Nationalist, stilted praise for BBC nonwithstanding.
The US has some very nice satire, though. Its satire makes up for a lot because it's so superior to so much satire elsewhere; I daresay it's superior to the satire in the UK at the moment.
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