February 11, 2004
Fix your own windows first
Is there anything more pretentious than an employee of the embattled (that's for you, Dawn) BBC criticizing the American media? Stuart Hughes has the usual, unoriginal, blah blah about how our news is so homogenized and how the media is filtered through a 'how does this affect America' prism. Now, I'm clearly an internet junkie and, as such, I find news from other sources to be one-dimensional and uninteresting. Why just hear the story when I can read it and 15 different takes on it? Still, it's a bit rich for a BBC employee to have words about our press, considering.
Further down on his page he picks on Fox News for ripping into the BBC regarding the Hutton scandal. Hughes writes 'One day all news will be like this.' Except that the clip he links to isn't 'news', it's commentary. The clip features the newscaster (Tony Snow, if I'm not mistaken) doing a segment titled 'my word'. I don't know how it works in Britain, but in America a segment called 'my word' translates to 'my opinion'. But hey, who needs facts, it's the BBC after all.
Via Buzzmachine.
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That was scathing I loved it.
Posted by: William V. Negherbon at February 11, 2004 09:00 PM"it's the BBC after all"
Well no, it was one employee. Much like Gilligan was one employee. If you look hard enough you could probably find a BBC employee saying the polar opposite of Mr Hughes.
Any excuse eh ? The American right are picking up where the UK right left off. Obviously they are doing something right.
to add to Bobby's comment:
"I don't know how it works in Britain, but in America a segment called 'my word' translates to 'my opinion'"
In Britian a blog is an opinion of the author not who he works for.
With that kind of cherry picking to use as an argument against somthing you don't like,you could write dossiers on WMDs.
So, you both are arguing that the opinion that the American media is limited and homogenized and that Fox News specifically is biased, is just the opinion of one guy at the BBC? You're really telling me that it isn't widely held, in particular by the BBC and its employees? C'mon.
Posted by: Kashei at February 12, 2004 11:32 AMI have no idea if American Media is limited and homogenised or not. Neither do I know if that is the opinion held by the BBC or it employees. I only know that it is the opinion of Stuart Hughes. For you to claim that from what he wrote is the BBC’s is wrong. Are my opinions that of the company I work for? I don’t think so. After the first read of your post and clicking on the link I expected to go to the BBC web site not a blog.
Posted by: Graeme at February 12, 2004 11:43 AMGraeme, It is the impression that I get that this opinion is one widely held by not just the BBC organization but by the wider European audience. I can't believe you're trying to tell me you've never heard of it.
Posted by: Kashei at February 12, 2004 11:49 AMI would be lying if I said I had never heard that opinion. Half the comments to Buzzmachine's original post were agreeing with it
But using a blog as proof is not a good argument.
The only argument that I was making was against equating the view of the BBC to one blogger (in much the way that you were rightly critical of him).
Fox News I cannot comment on, having never watched it. - although the rest of Murdoch's empire certainly reflects his agenda.
As for the rest of the American media - I have only had a limited experience in NY, but it is certainly not homogenised, and I was impressed at the diversity.
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