Dyke fingers wrong newsprogram

The Telegraph:

"Greg Dyke is not happy with the standard of impartiality set by American television stations during the Iraq war: in a speech in New York on Monday night, the BBC's director-general accused them of "banging the drum" for coalition forces - a grievous offence in the corporation's eyes....

"Day after day during the campaign, the corporation misled its audience by exaggerating the extent of resistance met by British and American forces - so much so that one of its embedded reporters begged it to stop. Paul Adams, a BBC defence correspondent, asked his bosses: 'Who dreamt up the line that the coalition are achieving 'small victories at a very high price'? The truth is exactly the opposite.'

..."Such skewed coverage is symptomatic of a wider problem. The BBC seems unable to control the political impulses of its journalists, which point with depressing uniformity in a Left-liberal direction. Why, for example, were so many broadcasters allowed to reveal their personal contempt for President Bush during his visit last week? The corporation needs to grasp that its bias is increasingly recognised by viewers...."

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