That the BBC is biased against the Grand Old Party and in favour of the European Union is common knowledge and probably part of the broadcaster's mission, if someone cared to look it up. Except for a regular slip here and there, the bias is executed in a professionally sly way. Not so at their statutory competitor, ITV. A most anti-American, leftist, Sandinista, Soviet-sponsored banana republic wouldn't be ashamed of what Alistair Steward and the invited 'pundits' (who must have been either financially or genetically Democratic) came up with during ITV's coverage of the 'The-Official-End-of-the-On/Off-Half-Coalition-Between-Reason-Responsibility-and-Democracy' US presidential election . If that wasn't cowboy* journalism, I don't know what shooting from the hip is.
*'cowboy' does not apply (here) to Mr Dimbleby, whose general professionalism, immaculate style - even if not always content - is very impressive and admirable (I just wasn't able to resist the illustration). The word was used for the bunch within the ITV corral; you may think me partisan - which I am - but suggesting that Mr Romney, at that point potentially the next US president!, is 'mad' because he has sympathy for some of the Tea Party postulates and gets on well with a few Evangelicals - which Mr Stewart did suggest! - was on par with the 'journalistic' standards that I vaguely remember from the pre-Reagan or pre-freedom (if it's not one of the same thing) days in the communist Poland.
**Actually, it was even worse: it was pure thick Euro-lefty cow journalism (sorry – I had to vent it out somehow; I feel better now).
picture of Messrs Dimbleby (slick) and Stewart (cowboy): independent
