And I'm Not Talking Fox, I'm Talking The Good Old BBC

[poliphilo]

Sharon is "fighting for his life"- that's the reigning cliche. But how do they know? Sharon is in a coma; he's not doing anything- and if he is, it isn't visible to bystanders and certainly not to Our Special Reporter Camped Outside The Hospital (poor sod) or his Anchor. Maybe Sharon is longing to just get on with it and pay the ferryman and is furious with the doctors who are holding him back.

I don't know if the standard is getting worse or it's just that I've tumbled to their tricks, but I'm always catching myself shouting at the newscasters these days.

Comments

[cybersofa.livejournal.com]

Yes indeed, complete waste of time sending Our Special Reporter to interview Our Middle East Editor outside the hospital, when the only available information was the hospital bulletins which could have been read out by a studio presenter.

The interesting story here is surely Sharon's successor and his ideas and policies, and for that, as ever, you have to listen to the radio.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

Sharon is already the past.

I was watching a repeat of The Day Today last night. You'd think the TV journos might have taken some notice of that blazing satire- but it's as if it had never been

Water off a duck's back.

[cybersofa.livejournal.com]

Damn, wish I'd known that repeat was on. I enjoyed Broken News very much, too.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Broken News was good. But what a shame that TV news is still such an easy target for satire.