Bibi Versus The Beeb
July 31, 2006 at 8:28 pm
The Jerusalem Post notes that Israeli opposition leader Bibi Netanyahu has given dozens of interviews since the Mideast war began to CNN, Fox News, Sky News and the BBC:
Rating the foreign news networks, Netanyahu said that the American Fox News Network was the most favorable to Israel and the BBC was the worst. He said there were good and bad interviewers at every network and he did not want to generalize, but that at the BBC, some of his interlocutors were “needlessly nasty.”
There was a time when the BBC wasn’t so nasty. In fact, the first BBC anchors famously wore tuxedos on air, to prove, in their estimation, how formally important their news was.
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