I used to buy whatever the beeb was selling, too. At least until 9/11. You would have thought that being freshly wounded, we might have found some comfort from the beeb and its quackmeisters, but I witnessed the most appalling hatred toward america on the part of the hosts and audience members of some trite chat show. I just never realized what a nation of america and jew haters the uk had become, til I began watching the beeb more carefully. I am not surprised anymore by the things they say. I only wish they had to live daily with the threat of suicide bombers on busses and subways. Clearly, 7.7 doesn't mean anything to them.