I'd be curious to see a link to the BBC admitting to "leftward" slanting and being Anti-US. Now I can see that they would be proud of their home in the UK, and wouldn't see the US in the same way we do living here, but for me thats part of the appeal of their news. It provides me an outsiders view on what goes on here, and also one of what happens in the rest of this world we live in. I don't think being proud of your home country makes you Anti-another country.

My main point is that I prefer news from sources that aren't trying to gain higher ratings to attract more ad revenue. Almost all US news falls into this category. Instead of telling me what is really going on, the news focuses on political talking heads yelling at each other (O'Riley, Olbermann, and tons of others). Either that, or it's filled with stories of the killer escalators at the mall, or some fly by night hollywood star throwing up from a party last night. And then some are even heavily slanted in one political direction or the other, enough that even the most diehard of republicans or democrats would admit it.

I also believe in getting my news from multiple sources to get all the different view points. news.google.com is a big source for me online. It's been rather interesting over the past few years tracking how big world and US stores are promoted differently on the different sites. Something bad about the current administration is much more likely to come later, or with less emphasis on Foxnews.com then CNN.com for example. Because I wasn't paying as much attention to this prior to 2000, I can't really comment if this is reversed when the political alignment of the executive branch is flipped.