but aroused no significant interest in this development.

After Tony Blair got mad at the BBC for going after the deception involved in bringing the UK and the US into Iraq, they changed the rules so that Trustees to the BBC Board would be selected by the Prime Minister, and to make it easier to outsource BBC reporting/programming (i.e., to cronies).

Previously, it was ONLY on the BBC that I'd heard that there WAS an alternative explanation for the infamous "aluminum tubes." Now that programming has been replaced by talk about sports and celebrities.

Have you noticed, the countries in which little or no mass media reach most of the population, seem to be the ones in which the people are rising up against unjust governments?

... I guess Egypt's "Constitution" doesn't mention "Freedom of Speech or of the Press." Yeah, I noticed. The natives are rising up all over the world. Watch London one of these days. They are upset about Austerity measures and are vowing to get a couple million people in the streets. But here at home?

The rot is setting in, after 9 years of appointments by Conservatives. The top positions have been filled with either mouthpieces, or those hell bent on taking the institution down from the inside.

Having a public broadcaster is great, until its co-opted by the same people that own the rest of the MSM.

Whistle Blower ended up dead.

that Occupy had begun. Meanwhile, they were hyping every two hour Tea Party event at which "two or three" were gathered, both before and after the event began.

And our media at least pretends to be independent-when they remember to, anyway.

.... amazing

-Laelth

angry about something, of course, and it will get round-the-clock coverage.

Comedian David Schneider tweeted that if the protesters wanted coverage for their march, they should have named it Nigel Farage.

Incidentally, the current head of BBC News is a former Murdoch lackey. Which I'm sure has absolutely nothing to do with this disparity.

showing our governments who's really in charge. We in America need to stand for a guaranteed minimum income and free education at state universities. They should wipe out student loan debts. Our bloated defense budget needs to be slashed. They could take the military budgets of several other countries who have the next largest budgets, combine them, and our military budget would still be larger than that. We don't need to be in Iraq at all. They can close down that fucking embassy if they have to.

Almost every day there are protests (some huge, some not) in Greece, Spain, Italy, Portugal. Even England. I see them on Euronews.

And in South and Central America.

it's what keeps me from despair. because for sure there is no mass movement here, (US) altho there are many people - in small numbers around the country - doing good things - like fighting debt, fighting foreclosure, Moral Monday in North Carolina.

But the numbers are not such as to create a mass movement.
of course in Europe these are not mass movements, but they do get out for ex 60,000 people in the streets.
And not just young people - older people, middle-aged people, employed, unemployed, even sometimes cops. It's really wonderful.