Trashed Panda there, with "Unlikely Outlaw"

There's no better way to spend an evening oil than painting a pomegranate ;-]

Watching this again, it’s so striking how eloquent and effective Miller is, and how feeble and dishonest Powell is. A foreshadowing of today’s bullies and bullshit merchants, with the difference that today those people are allowed free rein. What a shame we never saw Miller taking down Farage.

And the USA and Russia should be broken up into states, right?

Thought it was a joke when I first saw this news

This one is not his though www.snopes.com/fact-check/m...

needs more cheese

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Not sure what you mean by ideological paragons, but I think it's a bit disingenuous for TV news to blame social media for short attention spans when the rolling 24h news culture predates social media by years.
Can we really deny that news providers strive to be exciting, rather than informative?

The problem is that news and current affairs seem to see themselves as part of the entertainment industry. That which is important may well not be exciting, and vice versa. That's before we get into the fact that TV is picture-driven, and not everything is visual

But often/usually events are not like that. Enlightenment takes a long time to emerge. By which time the circus has moved on, often leaving false implications or snap judgments in its wake, which stay in people's memory as the "truth", never revisited

The whole "breaking" thing is part of this ritualised theatre of the "news cycle". The artificial excitement about something which may be of highly debatable importance, the implication that the news is happening in real time before our eyes (ooh!)
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I have no idea how you came to that conclusion but you're wrong I'm afraid.

Just not true ;-]

Ah well there we go then, you've convinced me

"So there's still no news?"
"No, we still have no information but we'll be sure to tell you as soon as we know anything"
"How about now?"
"Still nothing yet, but rest assured we're across it"
"There you have it, from the guys on the ground, still nothing to say, but please keep watching. PLEASE!!"

Often a major thing (according to the world view of the news provider) happens but there's almost nothing to say. And then they say it for BLOODY AGES. The number of words they use bears no relation to what there is to say, rather to how important they think it is.

If only this were true, that when everything's been said on a story the media attention moves on. But it's not, they'll go on repeating themselves for days or weeks if it's something want to talk about and they feel the public are still interested.