No-one on this side of the Atlantic is talking about it but Blair is trying to softpedal on the reports recently crowed all over the rightwing blogs that he had told Rupert Murdoch he felt the BBC was anti-American in its coverage.
The Independent reports on an interview in which the BBC's Andrew Marr asked Blair about the allegations out front.
Tony Blair looked uncomfortable when quizzed by Andrew Marr over whether he thought the BBC coverage of Hurricane Katrina shown "anti-Americanism" within the corporation. Deny it and he would risk a public clash with Rupert Murdoch, who had blurted out the Premier's private views. He blustered: "There were certain bits of the reporting I didn't much care for but that's my view. I'm not making any great criticism of the BBC."
As more than one commenter said at the time, it looks very like Blair was brown-nosing Murdoch because he wants the tycoon's media empire to continue to cheerlead for him and is now brown-nosing the BBC because he knows he was out of order.
Pleeeaaasseeee can we have Gordon now? Hells bells, even Kennedy would be better than Tony Blur.
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