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Wednesday 20 February 2008

BBC 10 o'clock news coverage of the US Presidential nominations race

Pathetic in the extreme, pathetic almost beyond belief. The Justin Webb report had lots about Barrack Obama and Hilary Clinton obviously and the only reference to the Republican party was re them starting to take Barack Obama seriously as they attacked his wife for (what the BBC perceive was) a slip of the tongue.

In the early stages of the Primaries, defenders of the BBC's coverage said that the BBC were concentrating on the Democrats because that was a two horse race whilst the Republican contest was too confused to cover. Now I presume the excuse for all but ignoring the Republican contest will be that it is now too settled. Is there any level of contest within the Republican party that the BBC would deem suitable of covering? The answer of course is no; the BBC is not interested in reporting and analysing the news it is interested in getting a Democrat elected President.

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