BUSH GREETED BY CROWDS OF PRO-AMERICAN PROTESTERS IN KOREA. Funny, did that make the news?

UPDATE: Well, it made the news somewhere:

Mr. Reynolds

I’m no fan of the Beeb, but I should point out that on my way to work today (that would have been around 10:00 EST) I heard a BBC World Service piece on Bush’s visit to Korea and the protests/counter-protests. I was surprised when much more time was given to descriptions of the pro-US demo than the anti-US one, including two interviews with participants. The surprise I felt of course underlines how much one assumes that the BBC – like other large western media companies – will let their bias colour their coverage, but this was a rather pleasant exemption. Perhaps the Korea/SE-Asia bureau is less rabidly anti-American than the western ones?

Bjarni Olafsson, Iceland

Lately, the British media generally seem less hard on Bush — and less enthusiastic about Obama — than their American counterparts for some reason.