29-10-2015, 04:40 PM
James Ruby Wrote:I suppose I am slightly unusual, insofar as having never owned a TV, and consequently never having paid a penny to the BBC (increasingly a badge of honour). I can only really speak about Radio 4. Take the 'flagship' 'Today' programme: its decline into convulsions of banality is disturbing (and I go back to Jack de Manio, as I'm sure does DG...).
I have a Hancockian vision of hell:
I get stuck in a lift at Broadcasting House with Laura Kuenssberg and Melanie Phillips...
Aye, I remember him. As well as Hancock's Half Hour, Round The Horn and the Navy Lark - great radio shows and great humour too.
The problem with privatizing the Beeb - and let's face it, it has innumerable problems and the news has been converted to utter asinine garbage after Blair Iraq War Dodgy Dossier and the Dr. David Kelly affair emasculated it -- is that once it's gone, it's gone. And only then will people begin to see the consequences and what follows... but by then it will be too late. The thought of Murdoch controlling media life in the UK along with his other mega business media cronies is too awful to bear.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14