Ketchup

[poliphilo]

I'm slowly catching up on the convention. The BBC are showing looped highlights on their Parliamentary Channel.

Yesterday I watched Teresa Heinz Kerry. I'm sorry, but it's hard not to hear that as Heinz Ketchup- especially since the name is displayed on screen with the Heinz bit- the famous logo- dead centre.

And isn't there something slightly creepy about still dragging your dead husband's name around with you after remarriage?

A woman defined by the men in her life- the ones she's slept with, the ones she's given birth to- those wholesome, handsome sons.

And if she says anything off her own bat she's "opinionated". I liked her defence of herself on that charge, carrying the attack to the enemy. But isn't the whole enterprise, the parading of oneself as mother and sexual partner, just a little demeaning?

Look at me; See what a healthy womb I've got!

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[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

also, jon stewart of the daily show was interviewed by ted koppel for nightline the night before last, and had some really good observations about what's wrong with the media today, how they have the authority to call people out on their bullshit (which wouldn't be bias, it would be a simple matter of revealing how statistics are derived, or who's funding what, or going back to video archives and saying "yes senator, you said that and we have footage of it"), but they never do, and that's why people are frustrated with the news outlets. they don't provide analysis, or even a look at the bigger picture.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Thank God for the BBC- with its culture of taking the politicians to task.

But it's a dangerous game. A number of BBC personnel (including the Director General) lost their jobs over a radio report that went a little further than the ascertainable facts warranted in accusing Blair and his gang of lying over WMDs.

"The proce of liberty is eternal vigilance."