Whether it was politic or not to reveal the remarks, what Rupert Murdoch said Tony Blair had told him shows that at least someone pays attention to the remarkable (taxpayer funded) anti-American bias of the BBC. The BBC’s professional spokesmen and defenders have, of course, done their best to deflect attention from their political propaganda machine to the other issues. (The above is not to say that the BBC’s coverage is devoid of merit; I often listen, as I do to National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and Deutsche Welle, but their political biases are hard to mistake; what is especially offensive is the coerced taxpayer support of such political institutions.)