Last week, the British Broadcasting Corporation, the globe’s largest news provider, launched a 24-hour news channel in America.

That worries Gerard Baker, a former BBC employee who is currently the U.S. editor of the London Times. At the BBC, he says, “producers and managers share one thing in common — a public-sector, European liberal, metropolitan elite view of the world.” The BBC believes that “the vast majority of Americans are morons who are perfectly content to swallow right-wing rubbish from their political and media masters.” But, they also believe, “there is an educated and sophisticated elite on the coasts that feels somehow its worldview is underrepresented by the current giants of the mainstream media in the US.” It also is a tenet of the BBC faith that “that capitalism is some sort of conspiracy by evil men against the ordinary working stiff and that big government and higher taxes are the only route to a fair society.” The BBC believes, too, “that Europe is the acme of human civilization and that if only Britain and America would emulate it (or in Britain’s case, completely subsume itself within it) the world would be a much better place. “It declines to call Islamist terrorists terrorists because the word is a value-loaded one, but it never fails to pore in infinite detail over every ‘atrocity’ committed by America or British forces in Iraq. “It thinks in any case that the war on terror was all got up by oil industry tycoons and clever neocons and that there is no real threat from violent political Islamism at all. “It believes Palestinians are the innocent persecuted victims of violence and imperialism (a recent Jerusalem correspondent memorably confessed to weeping openly when she caught sight of Yassir Arafat’s coffin at his funeral in Ramallah) and that the murder of innocent Israeli citizens is on a moral par as victims of war with the killing of Palestinian terrorists by Israeli forces. “It scoffs at religious belief (the last head of its vast religious affairs department was an agnostic), but it holds the doctrine that man–made global warming is true with the passion of any enraptured spiritualist awaiting Judgment Day. “It believes passionately in equal rights for homosexuals, though of course it urges cultural sensitivity when dealing with countries where such “deviancy” is rewarded by execution. … “But it is in its America coverage that it comes gleefully into its own. “To the BBC’s editors and reporters America is a country of backward, grass-chewing, Bible-toting religious fundamentalists, ignorant of almost everything that goes on beyond their shores. Americans are obese, gun-wielding fanatics devoted to despoiling the planet with their greed for ever larger cars and ever heavier hamburgers. The US is a country of grotesque inequalities of income and wealth in which the few rich laud it over the indigent many, fuelled by tax cuts and the hacking away of welfare programmes.” There’s more – and I recommend it highly — here .