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Hils wrote:
Fine - just don't force people who want it to pay more for it. If the discredited politicians, burned-out sportspeople, neo-aristocrats and other talentless luvvies currently on the BBC's payroll were purged, this would be eminently achievable. :-) And there are none of these on commercial channels? I'm an astronomer get me out of here! ----------------------------- Martin Frey http://www.hadastro.org.uk N 51 01 52.2 E 0 47 21.1 ----------------------------- |
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"Martin Frey" wrote in message
... "Grimble Gromble" wrote: "Martin Frey" wrote in message . .. And it was good tight drama - but I agree with thesis that it suits the climate of fear necessary for government by diktat as favoured by rulers like Bush, Blair and Saddam. But it was also the same BBC that so brilliantly (if repetitively) aired the exposee of the climate of fear in a 3 parter a couple of weeks ago. I'd hardly call it an exposé as Michael Moore had already broached the idea in 'Bowling For Columbine' and later extended the idea and given it more weight with 'Fahrenheit 9/11'. What is promising is that the BBC took up the idea and it hasn't (yet) disappeared from public discussion. I guess the problem now is to persuade the patient over the pond (and a fair chunk of our own society) that it is sick (pathological even), but there may be help. Grim The programmes revealled the academic and philosophical roots, back in the 50s, of selling your people a myth, religious or political, which was new to me, as was the parallel rise of the same method in Egypt. Also fascinating was that indiscriminate blood-letting led to a mass rejection of the extremists and fundamentalism in Algeria and elesewhere. There comes a point where common sense may prevail of propaganda and fear - very heartening. I am a fan of Michael Moore - but don't his films contain precisely the jump-cutting, flashes and bangs, so much derided in so many BBC critiques? Personally I think that, if this is required to reach an audience then so be it. The climate of fear programmes were much more reasoned and academic - so much desired and supposedly absent from the BBC according to its critics. I concur with every word you say, except exposé. It was indeed a much better and deeper analysis than Michael's, I just felt he deserved some credit for bringing up the basic idea earlier (no doubt he didn't originate it, but he made it readily available in a form I come across regularly and I felt might have inspired the BBC to make their own production). His films, Bowling For Columbine in particular, were a revelation for me, and probably prepared me for the BBCs production. Hopefully the BBC's production will also be made available on DVD. Grim |
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