I love the BBC, and listen to it whenever I can. Ironically, I find that I can often learn more about U.S. politics from the BBC than from U.S. news outlets -- even NPR.
Sad, isn't it?
What I'd really love is to hear some of those aggressive, take-no-BS BBC reporters interviewing a few U.S. politicians. Not that Bush or Cheney or any of that lot would ever agree to such an interview, but I can dream.
Wasn't there a news clip circulating about 2 years ago from Bush's visit to the U.K. in which he made the mistake of giving an Irish reporter an interview? As I recall, you could see and hear him growing quite upset when she refused to simply accept his stock answers -- and then she flat-out told him he was wrong when he claimed to be quite popular in Europe, which he very clearly did not enjoy hearing. (This was soon after a large percentage of Britons rated Bush as the single greatest threat to world peace.) If only we had such reporters/interviewers here in the U.S.!
Cheers,
Michael
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