You don't hear from Colin Powell some of the things that you hear from say Richard Pearle who's not actually a member of the administration, but you can hardly turn on a radio or television programme without hearing the ubiquitous Mr Pearle, and there are probably European voices which grate on American ears.

BBC: Breakfast with Frost

No other American television news programme, cable or broadcast, did better (though the BBC and Al-Jazeera were both swifter and more plugged-in).

ECONOMIST: But the real winner was an unusual hybrid of old and new media

No television programme on the north-south divide is complete without shots of boarded-up houses in Salford or Newcastle.

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