EVERY day at 9:15am, an intense and unshakeable sense of doom begins to surge through me. It is, of course, the time at which The Jeremy Vine Show begins to air on Channel 5.
To give you a flavour of the show’s output, here are three questions it recently served up as points of national discussion: ‘Should we lock down the unvaccinated?’, ‘should pubs ban mobile phones?’, and ‘should we mandate vaccines?’ – In short, the show now caters for fools and fascists.
Worth reading as a reminder of just how ghastly people can be when offered the opportunity and a modicum of what could appear to be official approval.
The things we miss by not watching television.
5 comments:
I'd never heard of Channel 5, but now I certainly won't be seeking it out. I'm not surprised by the content, though. It seems to be about getting attention by stirring up emotion, which is the case for all media, it seems. Factual reporting and measured discussion is now a niche interest, probably because it requires thought (which is difficult) rather than emotional reaction (which is easy).
Like BBC Four, BBC Scotland, .....no, can't think of others, By 5 has some programmes which I like. 5 seems to have taken on the role that BBC 2 used to have - good documentaries.
So don't reject it totally. Keep an eye on schedules.
Channel 5 is said to be particularly popular in Yorkshire.
Here in Notyorkshire we have enjoyed its remake of All Creatures Great and Small and some Adam Dalgleish murder mysteries. Not bad at all.
Otherwise on the telly we watch precious little except the football highlights and rugby (me) and The Bake-Off (herself).
Oh, a few years ago we did watch a reshowing of Lord Clark's Civilisation. It had stood up pretty well.
And more recently I watched a comedy - The Detectorists. Quietly amusing I thought.
But Jeremy Vine is the superopinionated lycra lout cycling nut, can't imaging why anyone would want to listen to him?
Sam - yes that's it, factual reporting and measured discussion is a niche interest. As if many people feel that stirred emotions are symptomatic of authenticity. As you say, it's the easy approach.
Doonhamer - part of the problem I have, is however good a TV documentary, there are always a huge number of internet alternatives so the TV remains switched off.
dearieme - we recently watched a number of episodes of Public Eye on Talking Pictures, a TV series about a private detective which ran from 1965 to 1975. That was watchable but it has finished now, so we sometimes watch an Edgar Wallace mystery on the same channel but find that series more patchy.
Woodsy - I hardly know anything about him, but from what little I've seen he seems easy to dislike.
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