God bless the BBC

MANIFESTO

Waiting for a plane at Heathrow allows me to blog on what I found to be the most impressive story I heard while in England. Viz., BBC television's admission that it had run some dishonest call-in shows on its various networks. This series of malfeasances was the major story of Wednesday evening on the news programs of ... the BBC.

Can anyone imagine comparable news organizations in the US (and I'm thinking specifically of the enablers, the New York Times and the Washington Post) featuring the various screwups they've been guilty of in such a prominent fashion? I sure can't, and it's certainly one of the reasons I'll miss England—and one of the things I'll remember it most fondly for.