Broadcasting House

BBC Radio 4's Broadcasting House programme today came from New York, and was duly greeted by the cries of listeners who are apparantly fed-up of specials always coming from the US and featuring something trivial. I can sympathise, and it makes me wonder if the media has the same fixation with the US as the poxy Blair government.

In any case, this morning's BH did include an interesting feature (dumbed down or not) on 'Air America Radio', a new liberal network of stations to take to the airwaves in the currently Republican dominated Mediumwave band. Clearly timed to influence the Presidential Election this autumn, the network is aiming to be an antedote to the extreme-right voices such as Rush Limbaugh.