BBC America On PBS & Telling It Like It Is
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Well, BBC America's world news is now airing on PBS and considering that BBC America is a commercial network, expect the cries from the US political right to grow louder that the decision to remove government funding was justified.
They are also speaking about Libya telling us that even with the Allies, the progress made by rebels has now ground to a halt and Gaddafi's forces are again winning.
BBC America is also stating openly we don't know who the rebels are, that only now are the Allies trying to create a plan, the coalition is divided on what to do, America Britain and Frances demands including Gaddafi being put on trial are now being criticized as guaranteeing Gaddafi will not accept any offers to leave... in every possible way, BBC America is revealing that the Allies have royally botched things. Today, there will be meetings by the Allies to further determine what Libya's future will be... but as BBC America points out, they invited no rebel representation because it seems our leaders don't really know who to invite!
New claims of Allied airstrikes hitting, injuring and killing Libyan civilians are also now being reported by more than just Gaddafi and his forces.
BBC America also reporting on the situation in the nation of Ivory Coast where defeated President Laurent Gbagbo refuses to give up power. President Obama was put under pressure from African nations and foreign nations globally to intervene in the Ivory Coast situation because of our involvement in Libya and the situations being identical... thus, critics of Obama's actions have now been proven true on almost all counts including his explanations that we did this to stop Libya's leaders from killing his own people when there are many such leaders we will now face pressure to go after and remove from power.
Syria may be next to explode if it's entire government does not resign today as the same dynamics exist there as in Libya before protests began.
BBC America is even hitting issues like the US housing market which has stumbled yet again with growing foreclosures and is not expected to bottom out until 2013 if even then.
Of late, the news from BBC America has been more truthful, more honest and less biased than any of our domestic news sources as well as more concerned.
So while PBS may have just given it's opposition strong proof that cutting government funding can be justified... they have also just provided Americans with possibly the best news service in the entire country so that I can honestly say you should tune in to PBS if you want a daily dose of news without the distortions of left and right wing politics polluting the airwaves.
The only problem is they don't seem to understand what sports are popular in the US as as they seem to be reporting sports popular in Britain that have little popularity in the US.
They also have a slogan which will anger many Liberals... We Speak English (lol)
They are also speaking about Libya telling us that even with the Allies, the progress made by rebels has now ground to a halt and Gaddafi's forces are again winning.
BBC America is also stating openly we don't know who the rebels are, that only now are the Allies trying to create a plan, the coalition is divided on what to do, America Britain and Frances demands including Gaddafi being put on trial are now being criticized as guaranteeing Gaddafi will not accept any offers to leave... in every possible way, BBC America is revealing that the Allies have royally botched things. Today, there will be meetings by the Allies to further determine what Libya's future will be... but as BBC America points out, they invited no rebel representation because it seems our leaders don't really know who to invite!
New claims of Allied airstrikes hitting, injuring and killing Libyan civilians are also now being reported by more than just Gaddafi and his forces.
BBC America also reporting on the situation in the nation of Ivory Coast where defeated President Laurent Gbagbo refuses to give up power. President Obama was put under pressure from African nations and foreign nations globally to intervene in the Ivory Coast situation because of our involvement in Libya and the situations being identical... thus, critics of Obama's actions have now been proven true on almost all counts including his explanations that we did this to stop Libya's leaders from killing his own people when there are many such leaders we will now face pressure to go after and remove from power.
Syria may be next to explode if it's entire government does not resign today as the same dynamics exist there as in Libya before protests began.
BBC America is even hitting issues like the US housing market which has stumbled yet again with growing foreclosures and is not expected to bottom out until 2013 if even then.
Of late, the news from BBC America has been more truthful, more honest and less biased than any of our domestic news sources as well as more concerned.
So while PBS may have just given it's opposition strong proof that cutting government funding can be justified... they have also just provided Americans with possibly the best news service in the entire country so that I can honestly say you should tune in to PBS if you want a daily dose of news without the distortions of left and right wing politics polluting the airwaves.
The only problem is they don't seem to understand what sports are popular in the US as as they seem to be reporting sports popular in Britain that have little popularity in the US.
They also have a slogan which will anger many Liberals... We Speak English (lol)
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Kane Fernau 2011/04/06 14:50:42Sounds like the world news from BBC America hits the spot
You wouldn't know about them without Satellite and many Cable providers didn't start carrying it until recently because they couldn't draw a strong audience until recently.
Their news, however, has been highly accredited worldwide even if they have been panned for things like their focus on British sports like cricket that Americans have no interest in and miss a lot of American sports we are interested in because they are Brits rather than Americans doing the broadcasts and are a little out of touch with American activities in the area of sports lol.
PBS has numerous valuable properties but the problem is that being non commercial and having so many small stations broadcasting it... they actually don't have the money. It's what they call "Principle over Practicality" as the principle is being commercial free when practicality proves without question that to survive they need to go commercial. No one forces them to air commercials for anyone they don't like and during an election year... they could make a killing from election ad's the other networks don't like to carry.
I watch the History Channel, Discovery, SyFy, Science, Investigation Discovery, National Geographic, Green, the Military ChannelTravel Channel... a huge number of networks that provide the same material as PBS. I even watch the Kids PBS Sprout on occasion and RFDTV http://www.rfdtv.com/ which is a network aimed at rural America... and these are the main reason I have Satellite tv which I pay for. The reason I don't watch PBS is because of all the old British shows and it's just so far and inbetween that the...
PBS has numerous valuable properties but the problem is that being non commercial and having so many small stations broadcasting it... they actually don't have the money. It's what they call "Principle over Practicality" as the principle is being commercial free when practicality proves without question that to survive they need to go commercial. No one forces them to air commercials for anyone they don't like and during an election year... they could make a killing from election ad's the other networks don't like to carry.
I watch the History Channel, Discovery, SyFy, Science, Investigation Discovery, National Geographic, Green, the Military ChannelTravel Channel... a huge number of networks that provide the same material as PBS. I even watch the Kids PBS Sprout on occasion and RFDTV http://www.rfdtv.com/ which is a network aimed at rural America... and these are the main reason I have Satellite tv which I pay for. The reason I don't watch PBS is because of all the old British shows and it's just so far and inbetween that they air anything of interest that I just ignore them as with all the other networks... I can find something to watch. In fact, I also watch BBC America lol.
PBS can go commercial but the problem is they want to control what we see and government funding allowed them to do that whereas everyone else based a show continuing on how many watch it.
Go check out RFDTV if you have it. It's all about rural Americans and things like rodeos, Hee Haw, caring for a farm, country festivals... take a look at their schedule http://schedule.rfdtv.com/?tz=1 as it's pure Americana from the heartland you almost never see on PBS anymore because they have lost their focus.
We have options to PBS and if they want to survive... they need to look at these options to see what they can do to compete commercially against these groups.
Now, it's starting to look like the whole world was sold a pig in a poke with BO's election.
"President Obama was put under pressure from African nations and foreign nations globally to intervene in the Ivory Coast situation because of our involvement in Libya and the situations being identical"
Are they really identical? Is he going to stick his foot in his mouth yet again? This would be really hilarious if it wasn't true. It reminds me of a Monty Python skit.
Obama has put his foot in his mouth over the Ivory Coast but it appears his backpeddling on Libya is keeping us from military action which France is happy to provide.
That's why I like them because as outside observers, they can see exactly what I see.
But for PBS, they kept selling packages from the 60's and 70's for the most part when the BBC was nowhere near as good as it began to become in the 90's.
And lately .. it seems that a lot of US studios are trying to duplicate successful series from the BBC/UK .. (to not much success) ...
But Benny.... there were none better from Britain in my book as his childish antics made him look like a big kid with out of control hormones.
And he wasn't afraid to wear a dress lol.
I still miss the guy