Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> ____/ [H]omer on Tuesday 28 August 2007 23:23 : \____
>
>> Verily I say unto thee, that Mark Kent spake thusly:
>>
>>> Bush to BBC reporter: "I didn't know you were still here"
>>>
>>> BBC reporter to Bush: "I didn't know you cared"
>>>
>>> Bush to BBC reporter" "I don't".
>>>
>>> Well, clearly, he did, otherwise he wouldn't have started the exchange,
>>> but the amazing thing is that this is something out of a primary
>>> playground child's debate, not something for grown-ups, and certainly
>>> not something you'd expect from a "world leader". What a t*sser.
>>
>> He may be a "world leader" but he has a pickled walnut for a brain, and
>> he's also one of the most vile bastards I've ever encountered. The look
>> of sheer insincerity in his eyes when he's talking about certain
>> "security" issues (in which he was probably complicit IMHO) is painfully
>> transparent.
>
> It's a regime of strings. At the moment, it is driven by many corporation that
> fund the election campaign. It's sad to see that even Britain is going down
> this route (well, more than it did before). Assimilation to American culture
> (including American programs which require DRM for dissemination) is the type
> of thing that corrupts the BBC.
>
Except they don't require DRM though... incidentally, the choice and
usage of so much US programming actually can be traced back to the
Government forcing the BBC to outsource a proportion (was it 40% or 60%,
I can't recall?) of its production from outside the corporation. This
was to "encourage competition", or, to put it another way, allow US
studios who'd been badgering the government to sell more programming to
the BBC, funded by *me*, whilst sacking some British employees from the
BBC. Yes, this is called "competition".
Well, we have it now - wall to wall low-grade yank crap TV.
About 10 years ago, I was sat in a pub called the Printer's Devil, close
to Fleet Street (hence the pub name), awaiting some folk. The barman
was aussie, and there was an older yank couple sat behind me.
The yank couple asked for the television to be switched, on, so the
barman did, and scanned through the channels. The choice was a couple
of Aussie "teen" soaps, and a couple of yank soaps. Both the aussie and
the yank proceded to engage in a long conversation about how crap TV was
in the UK!
I was so close to asking them to take their crap TV back home, it was
untrue, but I managed to stop myself. Still, if it hadn't been for
neighbours, we'd not have had Kylie :-)
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