the BBC is walking on eggshells wrt Gorgeous George at the moment; they gave him a complete and utter monstering on election night and are presumably wary of him making a complaint to the Broadcasting Standards Council.
dd -----Original Message----- From: PEN-L list [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carl Remick Sent: 18 May 2005 00:40 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Galloway The BBC World News tonight led with story, and yes, Galloway was videogenic. I just watched the coverage on the PBS News Hour with Jim Lehrer, and PBS showed Galloway in a less favorable light than the BBC. E.g., concerning Galloway's meetings with S. Hussein, the BBC report included only Galloway's (very effective) testimony that he met with Hussein twice, the same number of times that Rumsfeld did, and that unlike Rumsfeld his aim hadn't been to sell Hussein guns. The PBS News Hour, OTOH, emphasized footage of Galloway being received by Hussein and speaking in flowery terms about him (btw, didn't that used to be called diplomacy?).
