All media is biased in their choice of "news" to report.
So if Fox News attempts to just report the "good" news coming out of Iraq, instead of the "bad" news, they're neocons. Which is kind of stupid because that infers they were something other than conservatives before, or that there has been some kind of change in the definition of conservatism. And if the BBC just reports news critical of any policies with which they do not agree, then that's not exactly unbiased.
All of this "reporting" is done under the auspices of the nation in question. In Britain, France, Germany, Denmark, United States, Australia, Japan, South Korea, this means that the reporter doesn't get murdered and his house burned to the ground.
In Burma. In India. In Pakistan. In Indeonesia. In Sudan. In Nigeria. In Libya. In Saudia Arabia. In Oman. In Chechnya. In Afghanistan. The issue of "journalistic freedom" operates under a different set of rules. You're free to report whatever you want, just so long as it's not critical of my dictatorship, or I'll kill you and your whole god damn family and burn your house to the ground and go in there in the middle of the night and urinate on your ashes. If they don't outright murder the "journalist", they'll expel the company from the nation. And then it will be MSNBC that "plays ball" with the dictator, and gets all the breaking exclusives from that country. Or it'll be CNN. Or BBC. Or AFP.
There is a strategic benefit to watching BBC, and you can thank god for it. You know what kind of taqiyya the enemy is focused on using against you.
Sun Tzu said it best. Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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