Rule # 1: Get your facts straight.

The BBC has gotten its high-toned butts kicked around the world’s block all last year. And they’re off to a fine start on today’s morning news program by getting its U.S. facts…completely wrong.


In dissecting “what it all means” on this inauguration day for its mostly European listening audience, the BBC World Service’s News Hour had on an anchorwoman – one (shrill) Judy Swallow – with the kind of peevish, almost cliched tone of voice that reminds us of Maggie Smith in “California Suite.”

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