I have long since given up expecting honest, old-fashioned, balanced news reporting from the BBC.
Nor are the rest of the British broadcast media and much of the serious print media much better - at least when it comes to reporting on political and social issues.
What is thought of as 'balanced' and 'mainstream' media reporting in the UK has, for some time, been nothing of the sort. As a long-time observer and monitor of news reporting on both sides of the Atlantic, I can say that the situation in the USA is not much better. The only difference is that media observers in the USA are at least alive to their situation.
