{"id":7105,"date":"2004-10-28T11:07:20","date_gmt":"2004-10-28T18:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/10\/28\/coverage-2.html"},"modified":"2004-10-28T11:07:20","modified_gmt":"2004-10-28T18:07:20","slug":"coverage_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/10\/28\/coverage_2.html","title":{"rendered":"Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m trying to figure out how BBC World can have the following line-up of commentators and analysts for their US election coverage<\/a> and still maintain some pretence of impartiality:<\/p>\n

BBC World will also broadcast a special edition of ‘Question Time’ featuring film-maker and author Michael Moore, columnist Richard Littlejohn and former Bill Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal.
\nOther discussion programmes feature guests such as Madeleine Albright, George Soros and former CIA director James Woolsey.<\/p>\n

Albright and Blumenthal both served under Bill Clinton, as did Blumenthal. Woolsey also served under Clinton, though he was hawkish leading up to the war in Iraq. The political opinions of George Soros and Michael Moore are not exactly secrets. <\/p>\n

Richard Littlejohn is — well, from the references I can find, he’s a right-wing nutjob British writer.<\/p>\n

Now, those aren’t the only folks — perhaps — that BBC World is going to be having discuss the US elections, but, still, it hardly seems to be a representative example of folks with a broad range of opinions about, say, who might make a better US President, or who truly reflects the will of the American populace.<\/p>\n

Weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m trying to figure out how BBC World can have the following line-up of commentators and analysts for their US election coverage and still maintain some pretence of impartiality: BBC…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[52,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-2004","category-fourth-estate"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":131771,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/11\/who-is-feeding-russian-news-stories-to-donald-trump.html","url_meta":{"origin":7105,"position":0},"title":"Who is feeding Russian news stories to Donald Trump?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 11-Oct-16 4:37am","format":false,"excerpt":"An obscure story in the Russian official news service attributed (falsely) a Wikileaked statement by a journalist to Clinton confidante Sidney Blumenthal, one of the bogey-men of the Right, seeming to indict Hillary Clinton for her conduct regarding BENGHAZI!. 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