Trixie – you forgot to mention that the old woman lead (Window Twanky or the Ugly Sisters) is usually played by a man, while the Principal Boy (Prince Charming or Dandini) is often played by a leggy lady.

I know that they’re state funded and therefore expected to be objective, but people go apoplectic enough about the BBC in the UK and the ABC in Australia being allegedly run by a bunch of lefty liberal pinkos. How would they cope in the US?!

Dylan – Fox News has the danglies to say that it gives *both* sides – so it has Hannity *AND* Colmes, for example … it makes no attempts to have every 30-second segment be unbiased – while doing its best to have a given 24-hours’-worth be overall-balanced … thus, by comparison, it *seems* to be far-right, precisely because the NBCs and the like are so out-there left-biased while proclaiming their innocence of bias …

Try Pew Research Center’s write-up, for example …

In some ways, the saddest is someone like yourself, Dylan, who proudly says “But their news coverage is world-renowned for its – erm – marginal right-wing bias. Infact, their political persuasion is so well documented that I’ve never actually turned on the TV or radio to watch or listen to the news for myself.”

That is the classic recipé for blissful ignorance politically … Everyone knows how biased *this* outlet is that I’m not even going to watch it/listen to it ! … and that is compounded when those of us who watch both Fox and NBC and the like try to explain what we have seen, and yet *we* are the Pantomime bad guys …

At least in the UK, the Daily Mail and the Daily Express, and the Grauniad and the like proudly proclaim their biases …

What I do not understand even to this day is how many Brits end up here, and somehow their critical faculty seems to have been removed …

Oh and (grin) the Dirty Digger is in it for the money … he publishes what the market asks for … why do you think he doesn’t own the NYTimes or the WaPo or the LATimes or the various Tribune Group newspapers ? He makes money with Fox because he offers both left and right opinions on it …

“pantomime noun
UK INFORMAL panto) (in Britain) an amusing musical play based on traditional children’s stories, performed especially at Christmas”

Tends to be full of innuendo/double entendres and incorporates audience participation.The characters are caricatures – including their costumes and make up.

Kind of gets lost in translation.

Anyway, the point I was making is that traditionally there is a scene where the ‘baddy’ (that’s bad guy to you) is behind the narator/main character and the lead asks the audience ‘Have you seen . …?’. Hence, he’s behind you.

Really, really lost in translation.

http://richberta.expat-blog.net/post/uh-oh…now-we-ve-done-it...

what i liked the most were the individuals who, representing a network that was clearly leaning to one side, were blatantly obvious about their leaning to the other.

[If Obama wins, I fully intend to watch/listen to right wing tv/radio and wallow in schadenfreude.]