tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7867015.post109697631621648260..comments2023-09-24T13:40:29.462+01:00Comments on Squander Two: Why I don't watch the TV news any more.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7867015.post-1097163833532998002004-10-07T16:43:00.000+01:002004-10-07T16:43:00.000+01:00Well, if that's what you saw, that's what you saw....Well, if that's what you saw, that's what you saw. I couldn't watch it live, as I have a job, and, by the time I got home in the evening, it had been relegated to news oblivion and all the journalists could talk about was Peter Mandelson's first day at his new job. Maybe SpaceShipOne was big news for a couple of hours, but it didn't last.<br /><br />Spoke to my dad on the phone yesterday, and, although he had been watching the news enough to be pissed off by the endless Mandelson coverage, he hadn't even heard about the flight.Squander Twohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06968628314723491478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7867015.post-1097160184929187002004-10-07T15:43:00.000+01:002004-10-07T15:43:00.000+01:00I watched it all live on Sky News. Are you going m...I watched it all live on Sky News. Are you going mad? Fox News had even more coverage, but Sky covered it live from the point of separation from White Knight all the way up and back down to landing.Andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09723826090700679434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7867015.post-1097068280795750712004-10-06T14:11:00.000+01:002004-10-06T14:11:00.000+01:00True. I'm pretty sure that with the exception of ...True. I'm pretty sure that with the exception of some of the features, almost all their material is simply syndicated Reuters stuff. That's one reason I like it, there are virtually no emotive words in the reporting, so it is as close to objective reporting as possible. Hence, you get articles about alleged paedophiles with the words "evil" and "scum" and articles about Bush without "cowboy" and "i hope he dies in his sleep", which just isn't that common in pay-pers (see how I coined a clever new phrase? And even worked in a relevant pun in drawing your attention to it?).<br /><br />Toodle-pip.andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17976237671158666251noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7867015.post-1097015510217119162004-10-05T23:31:00.000+01:002004-10-05T23:31:00.000+01:00We don't get Metro over here. If what you say is ...We don't get Metro over here. If what you say is true, then well done to them.<br /><br />It's a strange paper, is Metro. It can be so good and so, so bad.Squander Twohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06968628314723491478noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7867015.post-1097015075586633722004-10-05T23:24:00.000+01:002004-10-05T23:24:00.000+01:00What that behemoth of current affairs, The Metro? ...What that behemoth of current affairs, The Metro? Front page today was SpaceShipOne. Tsk, Jo; sloppy research! :-)andyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17976237671158666251noreply@blogger.com