Viewing the DNC Convention the Wrong Way

I'm tired of the 24 hour news channels and network news. There's no journalism at these networks and I'm really really tired of the nitpicking and the anchors reading vitriol written by others who then go on to make snarky remarks (yes, Keith Olbermanm I'm talking about you). So, rather than endure more torture I found a new outlet to watch the convention - BBC America.

Yes, BBC America. The British National Network's USA division. A show hosted by Brits trying to decipher American politics. Do they make mistakes? Yes, the anchor tried to make a connection between President Kennedy's ascension to the president via the US Senate and the path for Barak Obama. A colleague had to remind him that it's the same path that John McCain would be making. Mistakes aside, I'm still not down on the coverage. They're trying and they're not under the pretense that the coverage needs to be from the right or from the left they want to neutral. And they're willing to do something that I'm not seeing from the American media - asking challenging follow up questions that force the interviewee off their talking points.

So, CNN, Fox, CNBC, ABC, NBC, CBS you all can count me out. I'll be tuning into the BBC for the next two weeks.