A CHILE WELCOME FROM THE BBC

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An ungracious report on the swearing in of the new centre-right president of Chile here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8561340.stm
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After dwelling on the popularity of Mrs Bachelet, the outgoing centre-left president, the report spends much of what little space is left for the newly-elected president Mr Pinera pointing out how rich he is:
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Paragraph 1: Chilean tycoon Sebastian Pinera is due to be sworn in as president of the country, which was recently devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami.
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Paragraph 9: "We won't be the government of the earthquake, we'll be the government of reconstruction," the 60-year-old billionaire said recently.
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Paragraph 12: Mr Pinera is one of the country's richest men. He made his fortune introducing credit cards to Chile, then went on to buy a television channel, a stake in Chile's most successful football club, and millions of dollars in other investments.
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Besides showing sour grapes on the BBC's part that a right-of-centre candidate had the cheek to get himself voted in by a Latin American electorate, I think the (anonymous) reporter here is trying to tell us something about Mr Pinera! And it doesn't seem to be that he's clearly a very gifted man.

CUBA NOT LIBRE

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The ever-excellent DB on the Biased BBC website reports on a remarkable piece of pro-Cuban bias from the BBC News website over an unhappy piece of 'breaking news': http://biased-bbc.blogspot.com/2010/02/cuba.html and there's a fine bit of comparative analysis by Not a sheep, which demonstrates that even The Guardian is a far better source for such news than the biased BBC: http://notasheepmaybeagoat.blogspot.com/2010/02/not-whole-story-on-bbc-re-death-of.html
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