Not sure if we'd go the same way. The print media is obviously very biased and theres no doubt about the politics of a Daily Mail reader for example. However, our news channels can't really get away with havinga blatant agenda or follow one political party devotedly the way they do in America. They usually stay out of favouritism in my view. To my knoweldge the only set of people who believe they're being attacked by the BBC Newsteam are pro-Isralies but thats just because the BBC are determined to show whats being done to the Palastinians.

In my view although the main news on major channels such as the lunctime and 6 O'clock news are blatantly dumbing down, for e.g. you never used to hear about celebrities on the news, we are still a long way behind the American news channels.

When I was last there, I couldn't believe the rubbish on the news and I'm sorry to say this because I love Americans, but the average American must be dumb to accept what I saw as a valid news story. For 2 days in New York, they were talking about a woman who had been rescued from her car after it fell in a river, not once did I hear any international news apart from when the whole of Britain got attacked on CNN by a commentator for allowing one if its subjects to make a film about the assisination of George Bus, oh, I forgot, Princess Diana was mentioned. My boyfriend and I were shocked that during those days dozens of car bombs probably went off in Iraq but the country wasn't mentioned at all.

Another thing that got us was that the anchors were allowed to have an opinion. In this country the news reader reads the news or interviews people about the news, you will never know whether Katie Ford, Trevor McDonald, Natasha Kaplinski, love Labour, hate Tory, hate foreigners or even like the colour blue because its not their job to tell us what they think. In America all of the anchors have an opinion no matter how ill-informed it is.