I have a new favourite game! It involves walking through our shopping centre and being accosted by the salesman for "Sky," whose opening gambit is always,
"hello sir, have YOU got Sky?" *(satellite TV company)
to which I reply, "er ... no!"
He immediately launches into a pitch extolling the virtues of the whole Sky package and I innocently ask a very relevant question?
"Will this work given that I don't have a TV?"
... and here's the fun bit, watching someone trying to comprehend someone not having a TV and struggling (but failing) to imagine that this is possible.
Last night I happened to catch a few minutes of TV at someone's house and was painfully reminded that the "drug of the nation" is still not for me and I remain in agreement with John Stott ("TV makes people: physically lazy, intellectually uncritical, emotionally insensitive, psychologically confused and morally disordered")
Ok, maybe that's over stating the case a little as there are some great programmes, BUT the self important, sound-bite driven, speculation fuelled, posturing and blatant judgemental voyeurism of TV does annoy me ..... more than a little!
So, I REALLY enjoyed Charlie Brookers' dissection of the mechanics of a news report!
Furthermore I'd like "24 Hour News" to be made to entitle themselves more accurately as "Endless speculation!"
























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