BBC Biased?

Uh...yeah. So much so that even Tony Blair is shocked by the anti-Americanism in its "reporting" of Katrina and the aftermath. This article is from the "It's-no-wonder-they-hate-America" file.

My question is: Why is it that institutions that feed from the government trough--such as the Beeb--are so full of leftists with a largely monolithic viewpoint (i.e. myopic anti-Americanism often tinged with anti-Semitism). Everything is presented in terms that makes America look bad, stupid, hypocritical, etc. It's all so boring and predictable.

It's the same thing with American universities. These institutions are like magnets for "the enlightened" -- the Arrogant Class, who are the same types who populate the BBC. You know, the type that think we should be grateful to them for telling us how and what to think. Do you ever wonder why government-subsidized institutions always seem to be full of such smart, smug people? I think it's because the government's largesse affords them the opportunity to become theoreticians instead of practitioners, like the rest of us. That's why it's so nauseating to hear these people, who have never met a payroll in their lives, telling us about the unfairness of tax cuts, the immorality of capitalism, and on and on.

Thankfully, inherent within our capitalist society is incentive, which promotes competition. In the bad old days all we had was CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, the New York Times, the LA Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the like, which basically gave us a lopsided, leftist viewpoint. Today in America, we have multiple sources of news and information (talk radio, the internet, Fox News, etc.) that present other viewpoints from which we can attain a more balanced view of the issues. Competition prohibits healthy organizations from resting on their laurels by constantly challenging, which benefits society. In England, the BBC stands unchallenged (at least on the tele). So, their society is left (pun intended) with no one to challenge the conventional wisdom--America hatred. Like I said, it's no wonder they hate America.

UPDATE: This link is to Dr. Richard Landes' Pallywood, a .wmv that can be downloaded and viewed. It is a short video that focuses on footage of Palestinians besieging an Israeli checkpoint that is used in 60 Minutes. Landes uses the outtakes and a frame by frame analysis to show, convincingly in my view, that much of it was entirely faked. It's an interesting look at the American media, which seems too ready to believe, and even enhance, Palestinian propaganda.