Actually, I didn't have to look hard to see the resemblance between Silda and Jen!
As for the CNN/BBC conversation, the chattering classes here in Canada have the same attitudes about the CBC (the Caliphate Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). Personally I don't think our public broadcaster gives me news *or* entertainment, unless one finds being pummelled with anti-American and anti-free market propaganda entertaining.
I cannot comment on CNN TV news vs. BBC TV news, but I can comment on National Public Radio vs. BBC World Service Radio. I like both services. But, I find the BBC radio broadcast to be a refreshing change from NPR. I get to actually hear decent reports from Afghanistan and many other parts of the world that NPR does not cover... or, at least not nearly as well. And, I love the voice of John Jason. (I know, it's a totally obscure reference that only BBC radio geeks would understand). ;-)
Rondi, the only reason I watch television news at all is that it's hard to be reading the websites of newspapers while buttoning your shirt in the morning. And yes, most of the entertainment is of the unintentional variety.
Maria, you can get BBC Radio online, and I do listen occasionally. Don't know why, but radio news has never really done it for me. Out of my college friends, I think I'm the only one who doesn't listen to NPR a lot.
No, I mean Stephen Sackur. I looked it up, I mean; I didn't remember. (Jeremy Paxman is the one who looks like Richard Gere with digestion problems, right?)
Rarely watch either so I wouldn't know which is better. AFAIK know, however, BBC does not have a Nancy Grace equivalent and deserve full credit for that. I'm not sure they have an Anderson Cooper either (someone whose career was "made" by wildly inaccurate reporting during Katrina).
As for the CNN/BBC conversation, the chattering classes here in Canada have the same attitudes about the CBC (the
CaliphateCanadian Broadcasting Corporation). Personally I don't think our public broadcaster gives me news *or* entertainment, unless one finds being pummelled with anti-American and anti-free market propaganda entertaining.Maria, you can get BBC Radio online, and I do listen occasionally. Don't know why, but radio news has never really done it for me. Out of my college friends, I think I'm the only one who doesn't listen to NPR a lot.
Do you mean Jeremy Paxman? I think the Vulture newsreader of the Muppet show could've been modelled after him :-)