Month: February 2003
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The Vicious Political Circle
Interesting piece by Michael Cockerill in advance of a programme to be shown on Saturday looking at the ways the media treats politicians, and in turn the way politicians answer their questions. Is it any wonder that people are becoming less and less involved in political debate?
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Is North Korean War Close Too
Interesting leader in The Guardian today, pointing out that North Korea may rapidly attain more importance than the Iraqi situation, despite that not being the order the Dubya wants to take them in. I guess the US isn’t exactly keen to get into Korea again.
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Tony Benn Interviews Saddam
I rushed home this evening to catch the interview. No not yesterday’s fascinating Jacko documentary with Martin Bashir, but today’s showing of an interview that Tony Benn conducted with Saddam Hussein at the weekend. I can’t pretend it was the most involving interview ever, with sometimes easy questions being lobbed at Saddam, and his ponderous…
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Great Articles in Today’s Guardian
There were a couple of fascinating articles in today’s Guardian. Firstly, the cover story of G2 looked at the amount of coverage given to the Space Shuttle explosion in comparison with other stories about peoples’ deaths. All the US networks carried lots of live stories about the story on Saturday, pre-empting usual programming. I must…
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Hyde Park Being Used
Finally the Stop the War March is allowed to use Hyde Park as a meeting point.
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Columbia
Tragically the Space Shuttle Columbia was lost on Saturday, and the inevitable recrimonations have begun. There have been the inevitable calls for the termination of the manned space programme. But this seems unduly reactionary, and one hopes that the accident will be carefully studied and any mistakes made, remedied. Overall the Shuttle has proved to…
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In A Dry Season
The book chain Ottakers occassionally runs special 99p promotions on novels to introduce you to a new series. So I picked up In A Dry Season by Peter Robinson as a result of one of these promotions. It’s one of a long series of Inspector Banks novels, and very good it was too. I must…
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Donnie Darko
What an excellent little film this is. I missed it in the cinema but a chance to get the DVD for six quid including postage was too good an offer to miss, and it proved to be excellent. I won’t even bother going into the plot too much, but it puts the likes of A…
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Jackass: The Movie
Oh dear. Free tickets etc., so I went along, and in parts it was quite fun. But overall I’m not sure about the whole thing. The series is pretty juvenile, and if it continued much more (I think they’ve pretty much stopped producing it now), would surely result in either a major accident or fatality.…
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24 is Back!
16 February is the date in my diary for series 2 of this fun drama. Can’t wait.
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LBC Media Show
I haven’t listened to an awful lot of LBC 97.3 FM since it relaunched and switched frequencies with it’s AM rolling news sister station. One show that does warrant listening to is Brian Hayes and Matt Wells Sunday afternoon media show. Two hours between 1.00 and 3.00pm every week – it’s pretty thorough in its…