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On balance

  • Justin Webb
  • 21 Jan 08, 04:41 PM GMT

The points people make about the BBC are interesting and I take note of them. To my mind, the Democrats have been the bigger story up to now and I think we are right to do more about them; though that balance might well be about to change.

An imbalance in the minutes devoted to each side does not denote bias. What I watch for is a contemptuous attitude towards a party's values - or one that suggests that they are self-evident truths! Having said that, the BBC is a British news organisation and part of our appeal (I hope) is that we offer a foreign perspective. Un-American is okay, it seems to me - but not anti-American.

No love lost

  • Justin Webb
  • 21 Jan 08, 03:31 AM GMT

The Obama attack on Bill Clinton - on ABC TV - calls into question whether the Illinois senator will be willing to slope off into the night should he lose, lick his wounds, as is the custom in these matters, and then come back with some more or less genuine speech of support at the convention at the end of the summer.

Plainly the former president has upset the once future president and, while it seems obviously true that the Clinton camp and the Obama camp do not have the policy differences of, say, Huckabee and McCain, they plainly cannot stand each other. Bloomberg/Obama anyone? Or Obama/Bloomberg?

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