Earlier in the decade, former CBS News producer Bernard Goldberg wrote two books about the leftward tilt of CBS and the media in general, Bias, and Arrogance.
In the latest installment of Pajamas Media Blog Week in Review, Ed Driscoll, sitting in for Austin Bay, interviews Britain's version of Goldberg, Robin Aitken, who wrote the book, Can We Trust the BBC?
Probably not is the short answer. BBC News leans to the left, and appears to have an anti-Israeli bias.
Unlike CBS, the reach of the BBC is worldwide. The popular BBC World Service news broadcasts in 43 languages. So this British bias is not just a UK problem.
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