For Pete's sake...the below story for awhile today was the headline...HEADLINE...story on their website.

A couple dozen Iranians get together to throw shoes at a Bush photo and it makes headline news on an international news source....puhleeze

God...BBC, you are normally far better than this!!

BBC NEWS | Middle East | Iranians join Bush shoe protest

You honestly think the BBC are better than this? You're behind the times. The BBC are no better a news source than anyone else these days. They used to be the standard bearer but, sadly, no more.

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Great Quotes from Great Americans:

"With regard to the words 'general welfare', I have always regarded them as qualified by the details of the powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphisis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."James Madison, Father of the Constitution

I wouldn't go that far, during our elections I consistently read articles by the BBC that did not hit American media until sometimes 2-3 days later. And they are more in-depth than America's infotainment outlets.

I am watching FOX more than i ever have in my life just because of shit like this

What exactly is your problem here?

It was on Boxing day when news is generally slow, it wasnt a headline story, and it was from the Middle East section of the website.

They have stationed reporters across the world, and they put up what they send in.

It still stands tall above all others. It even took on its own government over Iraq, what other news agency would do that?

Especially Fox.

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It was on the middle east section later...when I popped into the BBC main in the a.m. it was the main sites leading story. It is a nothing event, a couple dozen people get setup with the media that 'just so happen' to be standing by in a country that completely controls the media in it's borders. It was a media op and the BBC made it a worldwide one.

Well, as I watch the Beeb quite a lot for news, I would not completely disagree but they are not the organization that they once were. They used to report fact, nowadays, they are as bad as every other news station that feels the need to interject fact with opinion. I would much prefer for news stations to report facts and allow individuals to form their own opinions. Reporters these days seem to feel they are 'experts' to comment on all kinds of shit.... and, for the most part, they are not qualified to do so. The problem is that the audience holds their opinion in high regard so you end up with a media that basically tells us what to think. I am not comfortable with that.

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Great Quotes from Great Americans:

"With regard to the words 'general welfare', I have always regarded them as qualified by the details of the powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphisis of the Constitution into a character which there is a host of proofs was not contemplated by its creators."James Madison, Father of the Constitution

The BBC sometimes has a perception problem of what is relavant and what is not

I dont think the Beeb are so concerned with what some one person may think is so relevant all the time.

One time, when a Big Brother contestant once offended Indians, the beeb showed some indians whod made an impromptu protest at Britain and the TV show. Did it matter in the great scheme of things? Nope. Was there many of these guys? Less than 30.

But if you only post whats most relevant all the time, youll still be catering to one interest group rather than striving for the impartiality you seek.

Besides, the Beeb here wasnt making a big thing of it, just reporting it.

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More credit to them for that.

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

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Funny how convenient that viewpoint is. When news is against a certain viewpoint suddenly the beeb is some bastion of bias.

All the UKs enemies have said the same thing about the Beeb.

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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is superior to capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Guess who?