Today the New York Times published yet another of its stereotype-laden "wacky Brits" stories. The subject of this one is the outcry over BBC News's new state-of-the-art, computer-generated weather map.

In the House of Commons, a Scottish legislator, Angus MacNeil, attacked the changes as rude and insulting to Scotland, saying the new map made it look disproportionately puny (the BBC has since made it bigger again).

In the House of Lords, Lord Pilkington, a Tory peer, said he was not pleased at all. "For the past two nights a gale has been blowing outside my house, but I did not hear anything about it on the weather forecast," he said.

Other viewers are complaining that the movement of the map makes them dizzy and nauseous.

I think the identical complaints caused CNN to cancel The Capital Gang.