Sunday, 11 July 2010

Barbara Ellen: 'Don't Blame Us, You Want It..'

Words of wisdom on the Raoul Moat All-Time TV Extravagaza:
It's too pat to blame the news media. They are merely feeding the "public interest" monster...
Oh, cheers for that, Barbara.

I didn't realise the Sky News HQ and Television Centre had been beseiged by howling mobs, waving flaming pitchforks and chanting 'No 'Corrie'! Show us Moat instead!' and 'What do we want? Raoul Moat! When do we want him? ALL THE TIME!!'...

Well, really, what were you meejah types to do when faced with that, eh?
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5 comments:

  1. Shug Niggurath11 July 2010 at 16:48

    Oh I dunno, there is a bit of a carcrash mentality here. I admit to having the news on in the room on Friday when normally it'd be a DVD or something.

    What scunners me is the way it's reported - in the run up they goaded him with articles like the one with his mother saying he should die, a 'friend' saying he had a small penis and so on, during the stand-off they began to portray him as the victim of the piece and now they've moved on to it being all the fault of the police.

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  2. JuliaM11 July 2010 at 18:00

    That's the meejah for you - everything is meat and drink to them. Whichever way it comes out, they win.

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  3. Area Trace No Search11 July 2010 at 20:57

    Julia - I can't find an email for you. If you have a blog email, could you email me?

    ASNT

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  4. Anonymous11 July 2010 at 23:44

    Looking at your comments on the meejah I often feel the same JuliaM. I used to use adverts and film to try and get people to understanding 'reading' as active. Now I'm inclined to think most prefer to remain clueless. We are now in neurotic overdrive. My favourite examples are the ritual abuse and Nico Bento miscarriages. What we lack is a sane idea of how dull life is and how it is filled with 'work' and 'entertainment' no one needs.

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  5. JuliaM12 July 2010 at 05:40

    "Julia - I can't find an email for you."

    Sorry, I keep meaning to put one up, but always wonder what sort of spam I'd have to deal with if I did!

    Of course, Wordpress bloggers already have it if I've commented there. But I see you're on Blogger like me.

    Have sent an email.

    "I used to use adverts and film to try and get people to understanding 'reading' as active. Now I'm inclined to think most prefer to remain clueless."

    I think most people do lead such bust lives (though maybe, as you say, not always busy to any good purpose) that it suits them to let the images just wash over them.

    The advent of 24 hour news channels hasn't helped. That airtime has to be filled with something...

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