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To: TimF who wrote (60171)	6/21/2007 8:10:01 AM
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BBC-ing Bias By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Posted Tuesday, June 19, 2007 4:20 PM PT Media: Britain's government-owned BBC has investigated itself and found rampant left-leaning political correctness and anti-Americanism. Hell will have to freeze over before its U.S. counterparts do the same. Like alcoholics who become their own worst critics after entering AA, the British Broadcasting Corporation after a year-long internal probe is now saying things about itself that echo the complaints of conservative media watchdogs. An inherent liberal culture within the BBC's staff is behind its bias, the investigation's report concluded, and so BBC personnel must challenge their own beliefs. "There is a tendency to 'group think' with too many staff inhabiting a shared space and comfort zone," the report charges. A preview of the findings came to light last year when a leaked internal memo revealed left-wing and anti-Christian views and disproportionate representation of homosexuals and ethnic minorities. The most startling example came when executives were presented with a scenario in which a program featuring "Borat" comedian Sacha Baron Cohen asked guests to throw things they hated into a garbage can. BBC brass said they would broadcast anything thrown in the trash, even the Bible — but not the Koran, for fear of offending Muslims. The executives would also be in favor of broadcasting an interview with terrorist chieftain Osama bin Laden. As the Sunday Times put it, "What emerges from the report is a picture of an organization with a liberal, anti-American bias and an almost teenage fascination with fashionable causes." Americans need no official government probe to tell them that our Big Three networks are biased, along with the state-owned PBS and NPR. But imagine if there was. Think of the fit Bill Moyers would throw if a PBS higher-up suggested he get out of his ideological "comfort zone." And oh, how that multimillion-dollar smile would vanish from Katie Couric's face if her fondness for Al Gore was publicly described by a CBS exec as a "teenage fascination." Thankfully, in America we haven't had to wait for the government. Press watchdogs like the Media Research Center and Accuracy in Media exposed the media elites in this country for what they are long ago. ibdeditorials.com

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