BBC got soft with Seoul's Lee Myung bak

Have the BBC gone soft? It might seem so had you caught BBC worldwide news yesterday [6 July 2008]. A brief glimpse of the interview of its correspondent in Seoul with president Lee Myung bak. T'was all vanilla and chocolate pudding, it was. Piously Lee admitted that he should've listened to his people about allowing US beef to be again sold on the South Korea market. He didn't and he isn't, the more especially the street protests that his decision engendered are going strong in to a third month. And the call for Lee's resignation has not quieted one whit. Lee is now getting tough, so it is not surprising that we're beginning to see broken heads and arrests, but this, too, has if anything simply fueled the protests. Lee is as tone deaf to public opinion as his hero Bush who will drop in to see him at the Blue House before or after the Olympic games in Beijing. And boy if you've not seen street protests before, just you wait. Wonder how the BBC will paint them?
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