BBC World is awesome

[burythehatchet]

for someone seeking world news at 2 AM Sat.

[slutticus]

1. BBC Wold is awesome any time of the day

[NMDemDist2]

2. how do you recieve the broadcast? n/t

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

3. Often it is shown on your local PBS affiliate

or, alternately, if you have satellite and BBC America you can catch it there a couple of times a day, we get it at 5 pm central, 6 eastern. Great news show. I see stories that get ZERO coverage here on both BBC and CBC (Canadian, also off dish).

[burythehatchet]

5. PBA 30 in Atlanta its a public TV station

[Swede]

4. I was so glad I got BBC when the war was on last year.

They didn't paint such a gung ho rosy picture.

[enigmatic]

6. CBC, Too..

Since I've moved up here watching CBC, CTV, and BBC and going back to CNN, MSNBC and the like have been like night and day. And don't forget shortwave radio; here's a wealth of awesome stations out there that give you perspectives on the news that US stations will never give..

http://www.radioenigma.com

[sandnsea]

7. It's like throwing open the windows

and letting a fresh clean air blow the stale old fish smell right out of the house! I rarely turn on US news anymore.

[Fed Up]

8. you must be kidding

BBC television news (IMO) is just as bad. All they do is play fear stories that makes Bush look necessary. Just yesterday, Colon Powell's visit to Baghdad got on before Kerry's speech!

Then the bald headed anchor kind of shakes his head and wonders why would Americans replace a president in the middle of a war?

Every war or terror story they play has a sublime message that George Bush is saving the world, and we can't get on without his Churchillian leadership. F the BBC.

Why don't cable companies offer news stations other than American and British? I'd love to get CBC.

[allemand]

11. The BBC has a very high standard of objectivity

They are really fair and balanced, so you do find conservative journalists with conservative opinions, but even they have to show respect for the ideal of journalistic objectivity.

Unfortunately, there is a lot of terrorism in the world right now. If there is a bomb blast in Tashkent you will see it reported on BBC World.
It would be a logical fallacy to infer from the scandalous politicization of that issue by the Bush administration that there is no terrorism at all.

I wonder where you did get that subliminal message about Bush saving the world from. It would presuppose that you think that Bush is a an effective leader in the war on terror, while the facts being reported on BBC World and elsewhere simply do suggest the opposite.

[Fed Up]

12. the Beeb swallowed Bush's war hook line and sinker.

In the buildup to Iraq I just got tired of the BBC (and of course, our TV). They acted like he was Winston Churchill.

That's just my opinion, others may not detect that.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. I can't say it looked like that to me

Given that they did things like put Tony Blair in front of an audience full of anti-war people (producing the memorable line "do you, the member for North Texas, ...") to try, unsuccessfully to defend his policies.

I saw a couple of weeks of US CNN in the immediate buildup to the invasion, and the contrast between their cheerleading for war and the measured reporting of the BBC (and other UK broadcasters) was stark.

Since the war they have had the reports that caused the Hutton Inquiry (yes, the inquiry didn't criticise Blair in its conclusions, but the rest of the country did), and further reports, like the Panorama one a couple of weeks ago, when a serving government adviser said all the civil servants thought the WMD dossier was rubbish - - he's since been sacked by the government.

The BBC has also been responsible for Greg Palast's reports showing how the people who weren't ex-felons were stopped from voting in Florida, and the Saudi 'charities' that Bush stopped the investigation of (they possible funded the 9/11 hijackers).

[Spider Jerusalem]

9. You know, you can watch BBC World Service news online...

there's a RealMedia stream (maybe Windows Media, too...I know there's Windows Media audio)

[lebkuchen]

10. BBC World is one of the few media outlets remaining to real news

outside of the bloggers who are gradually replacing ABC, CBS, NBC and CNN.