It’s remarkable how easy it has become to guess that certain people rely heavily on BBC News for their grasp of current affairs. They emphasise and de-emphasise as the BBC does, ignore what the BBC ignores, exaggerate what the BBC exaggerates.
The most striking aspect is how easy it is to detect. Not so much a lack of curiosity, but comfortably managed curiosity. Heavily managed in the case of the BBC.
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And that's what we're dealing with, AKH, politically ... deep Woke left normies who don't even see this.
We live in an era of decadence. Where it is fashionable to say the right things. Not sure what people will think when digital ID and CBDC is forced on them. Perhaps they will be happy to work their lives away in order to receive their daily ration of Soylent Green. Perhaps not.
One thing is for sure, hardship breeds hard men and quite women. The quiet would be nice but I'm not looking forward to being a serf. I'm sure the Far Left BBC will still be telling us we have never had it so good.
Most unusually I watched a BBC documentary this week, on the Romans in Scotland. As you might expect there was intercutting with US troops fighting in Afghanistan (subtle!) and complaints of Roman genocide - without any suggestion of what the narrator had in mind. Obvs not Scotland - Gaul, perhaps? The implication was presumably meant to be that the US mass-murdered people in Afghanistan the way Caesar did in Gaul. Except of course the Yanks didn't. There's not been even a hint of it even though the US no doubt has its equivalents of Hermer and Starmer available to pursue bogus cases.
But I'll say one thing for BBC Scotland - their sound recording was excellent. I didn't need subtitles, I could make out every word said. The BBC drama people in London may therefore be assumed to be deliberately broadcasting aural junk - to annoy older listeners, presumably. Probably bloody Tory voters, eh?
James - and there it no point trying to explain - it scares them.
Mike - that's the conclusion I've come to, at least some level of genuine hardship is necessary to keep things in perspective.
dearieme - it's not easy to imagine why anyone would think of intercutting a documentary like that with US troops fighting in Afghanistan. Maybe they weren't aware of how absurdly political it was. Or they didn't care. Weird thing to do either way.
BBC Scotland is an oddity, Barb viewing figures suggest that hardly anyone watches it for some reason.
I gave up on the BBC several years ago, their content was just so leftie-biased, it stuck in my craw, to hear or see their lot pontificating and spluttering, and expecting citizens to pay for the privilege...
It's a much easier life here these days, I can get the news from a myriad of alternative sources, enjoy some Prime films, or dip into the vast collection of DVDs we've collected over the years!
Sigh...
Scrobs - and after giving up on the BBC because it is so dire, it seems even more dire. Yes, lots of choice these days, too much if anything.
I probably could guess, although not myself having any direct consumption of BBC content it would be pure;ly a guess. I finally gave up when, on moving to rural Somerset, the radio reception was inadequate. And the radio, having been thrown across the room a few times, wasn't worth replacing. So my knowledge, as with newspapers I no longer read, is indirect, through blogs like these.. You attend to such stuff so I don't have to!
djc - rural Somerset sounds like excellent compensation for poor radio reception and throwing it across the room sounds quite therapeutic.
I find blogs and YT video versions of blogs to be good sources of news too, they seem to encourage further investigation in a way that mainstream media doesn't. Their links are merely internal links to their own media.
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