US - British Media Invade the U.S.

Sadly, it's the BBC and the Guardian. Americans should read this before watching the BBC.

And Jonathan Boyd Hunt, writing in Accuracy in Media, warns about the danger of both the BBC and the Guardian coming to America.

So inured are they with hatred for everything that conservatives stand for-even liberation of the oppressed-any issue that the BBC-Guardian axis can use to attack the Bush presidency suffices for that purpose: Israel, Hurricane Katrina, Kyoto, Christian belief, and countless other issues. Their coverage of those newsworthy events that ought to provide the President with a positive platform, such as overseas visits, instead focus on periphery dissent-that's when the "wide range of views" tactic comes in handy-while initiatives of humanity that cost the U.S. billions, such as Bush's program to defeat the African AIDS problem, or the U.S. Navy's relief operation following the Asian tsunami, get twisted or go unreported.

The consequence of all this is that the U.S. has suffered, and continues to suffer, immense unjustified damage to its reputation around the globe-and it really is time that Americans got their act together and dealt with the source of the problem.

Agreed, but how? American bloggers have their hands full combating the same left wing bias in American media - witness the CBS/Dan Rather attempt to steal the last election.

Even the Prime Minister is astonished at the BBC's bald attacks on America.

Recently, while watching the BBC's coverage of hurricane Katrina from Dubai, Tony Blair was so struck by its anti-Americanism he confided in Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox News parent company News Corporation. When the story broke, one paper captured the exchange:

"I probably shouldn't be telling you this," chuckled media mogul Rupert Murdoch, before revealing to a seminar audience how Tony Blair had reacted to BBC coverage of the U.S. flood disaster: "He [Blair] said it was just full of hatred of America and gloating at our troubles." Blair's strictures are quite right. The corporation's coverage of New Orleans was an anti-American hatefest. The tone was gloating: distrust of the Bush administration in particular now colours BBC reports to the point of caricature."

Read the whole thing.