The BBC tries to silence American critics

From Expat Yank

Not content with venting their anti-American rants on their own channels, the BBC are now trying to muzzle American news organizations.

Here is a sample; read the whole thing.

In 2002, the Independent Television Commission (now defunct, replaced by Ofcom) here in Britain went after a CNBC/WSJ panel discussion program for violating a British programing rule preventing a television discussion program partnering with a newspaper. (They apparently have such a rule, yes.) The ITC threatened CNBC with heavy fines if the program were subsequently ever shown in Britain. So CNBC naturally pulled it. Such is the power even of a supposedly free government, to control what we are permitted to watch and to hear. (In any event, the program was cancelled on CNBC in the States some months later.)

This could be bigger. The BBC's "protectors" appear now to be after Fox News, which has a very small audience in Britain -- compared to that of the BBC's 4 major channels and its boring 24 hour news channel, all taxpayer funded. Jeff Jarvis:


. . .At last month's The Week event, FoxNews' John Gibson said he was in trouble in the U.K. for calling the BBC a bunch of liars.

Strange but true.

The official British FCC, Ofcom, just handed down a ruling against Gibson. . .
Funny, do you think Ofcom monitors al Jazeera (also shown on cable and satellite, but in ARABIC) in a similar fashion, for what Ofcom terms?:
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