[G. Adams]

Well when I was in the US the only TV I ever did watch was news channels as there was nothing but commercials on every other bloody station.

I landed on Feb 14 of this year, and was gutted that I had missed the big march in London, but thought at least I'd be able to see some of it and other ones around the world on TV. Wrong. There was nothing on such issues. Boring stuff on the RC hiding its priests from conviction (by the way, how should a church be able to pay like $80mil in compensation, if its a church all its money should be going to charity...) and more right wingers mumbling on about why we should attack Iraq (no counterviews though) etc

I also watch CBS on Sky News for the whole half hour its on at 12:30am, and it had some old guy interviewing Rummy. For gods sake he was laughing and joking with him. If they sent Paxman or David Frost (if he's in the mood) over there they'd have a field day, and I think the administration could be brought down in one night. There are no critical grillings being given, as far as I can see. Funnily enough you used to see Paxman interviewing Rummy and Perle etc before the war, but now you only get lackies. I think someone is scared of getting a real interview.

Even the NYTimes, supposedly the US equivelent of the guardian is only strong enough to say "erm, maybe we should *cough* help the people of iraq more..." Come on, where's the absolute ripping to shreds of each and every mistake like its supposed to be? Perhaps the Guardian should do a US paper as good as its UK one (without Aaronovitch please, you chubby new labour scum), as long as it has Hoggart, Liddle and Polly Toynbee, we should be seeing a Democrat (or Nader if we're really lucky) by 2004.