I didn't hear objectivity Alice, so maybe we need to politely disagree. As I said, I wasn't trying to be negative about you giving notice to the forum that this was on.

I'm pretty skilled at interviewing techniques, and I know hostile interviewers and confrontational interviewing when I hear them. I've also been on the "hot seat" while being interviewed by media people using these techniques.

It is important that we learn to make distinctions between what the media says they do, and the reality of what they actually do. Every journalism major is taught to do this sort of interviewing "to be objective". The problem is, being hostile and confrontational to interview subjects is not being objective or impartial. One must firmly take a position to engage in hostile and confrontational interviewing. The BBC commentator, in particular, seems to have done just that. I turned it back on after reading your post, hoping that it had improved. From what I'm hearing now, it hasn't.

But as I said, I am not trying to challenge you Alice, but to respectfully disagree with the way you are portraying the program commentators. And expressing my opinion.

It is tremendously important to hear what people around the world have to say about this issue, but I don't think they are being given an opinion forum to express their opinions. Rather, they are being "moderated" into a format that privleges the commentators over the callers. I've seen that dynamic used to hold dissenting opinions in check in public forums controlled by government and/or media for a long time too.