Actually, we love the Beeb, it's CNN we really hate

I’m sorry to disappoint A North Country Man, but the Beasleys are Americans. We know nothing about British English, except that they misspell words like manoeuvre, organise, tire and every word ending in -or. They also mispronounce at least one – vitamin – which is pronounced “vaitamin”, not “vittamin”.
But since they invented the language, whether they are Cockneys, Geordies, Scots or Oxford toffs, anything they do with it is okay with us.
My son Hadrian once studied Mandarin, and he is upset at the habit of ALL newscasters, both British and American, of mispronouncing the name of the Chinese capital. It’s not “Beizhing”, it’s “Beijing”, as in “Jingle Bells”.
Our concern is not with the BBC, but with the ongoing deterioration of CNN, which has lost some of its best anchors (where are you, Colleen McEdwards?) and constantly inflicts upon us the insufferably pompous and obnoxious Richard Quest.
CNN has also become an interminable promoter of Africa, with not one, but FOUR programmes on that prestigious continent, and they’re on ALL THE TIME.
Whatever the flaws of the BBC, it beats CNN hands down. A North Country Man should be grateful for that.
Constance Beasley