Hear! Hear!

Melanie Phillips:

What Americans need to know is that, far from its reputation as an international kitemark of accuracy and fairness, its journalism embodies a totally closed thought system which filters events through a prism of hatred – of Israel, of America and of western values. The BBC is simply the single greatest cultural weapon in the armoury of those who intend to bring the west down.

As a Canuck, I had to look up "kitemark": "the official kite-shaped mark on goods approved by the British Standards Institution".