I'm reminded this from the comments here at the Trots where you can also enjoy a delightful exploration of the challenges facing us all in a multicultural age. Remember folks, public service broadcasting of this standard will be fairly ubiquitous over here soon when BSkyB and Daily Mail lobbyists get their way.
I dunno about you, but - in the context of a parliamentary democracy - the potential slow collapse of public service broadcasting seems to me to be a genuine threat to liberty and democracy in a way that many of the phantoms that are cooked up by the civil liberties lobby aren't.
It's time to take sides.
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Paulie; Taking a break from giving you the finest gospel house tips, can I make a point about the Daily Mail? I had the misfortune to be stuck somewhere yesterday and the only thing available to read was the Mail. I see the Mail once in a blue moon, ususally in such circumsatnces. Friends in the meejah tell me what a superb product it is, and friends on the left have said that from a rightist perspective its a fine ideological product. But I never got this, and yesterday's browsing confirmed my view; its a pretty poor read. Its full of dreck. The sports pages are tired and the telly stuff is very so-so. The news/opinion is hardly inspired. I started reading a thing by Steven Glover and just put it down and fiddled with my mobile phone instead. I can read rightist papers - I always get the Sunday Telegraph, though that is going off a bit too. I just don't get the awe that the Mail inspires. It s just poor.
I hope you're right Mike. Much of the stuff that's written about the media is quite groupthinky.
Maybe the Mail was that fine ideological stormtrooper a few years ago and maybe that's no longer the case. If you're right, the media columns will start saying so in a couple of years time....
But Paulie -- don't you know that vouchers would solve all these problems?
Vouchers I tell you -- that's what the masses need to free them from servitude.
And that.
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