10-12-2013, 11:00 AM
Does Pat post here?
I saw most, but not all of these programs here in the UK. I too was surprised by the lack of even a pretence of balance. I seem to recall that for the 25th and 30th, at least, there was a fairly even distribution of pro- and anti-conspiracy shows. The irony here is that the AARB documents make the existence of a conspiracy more provable, not less.
The BBC, which journalistically, is rapidly disappearing up its own orifice, ran a stinkingly badly informed "minute by minute" special on Radio 2 on Nov 22nd. It aired at 6pm-ish UK time, to tie up with the six hour difference between GMT and CST. It was pure WC. I asked the presenter Jeremy Vine, on Twitter prior to the show going out, whose "timeline" he was using. He replied "Dallas. Is there another?" (can you believe this? Jeremy Vine also presents political and investigative shows on BBC TV!)
I replied that there are several aspects where even the mere timing is disputed, such as the Tippit shooting. He didn't reply.
FWIW, I think that by the 25/30 year mark, those that control the media (at least the visual media, if not the print) thought that they could afford to give CTs enough rope to hang themselves, and that the public would eventually tire of it all. That's why TMWKK - for all its faults - was allowed out, along with other shows like the one James Earl Jones hosted. Sure, they countered with Posner etc.
However, I think that this time they realised that they could not let their foot off the research community's throat. They could not, and did not, allow any oxygen of publicity to reach the research community, regardless of what the evidence is.
I saw most, but not all of these programs here in the UK. I too was surprised by the lack of even a pretence of balance. I seem to recall that for the 25th and 30th, at least, there was a fairly even distribution of pro- and anti-conspiracy shows. The irony here is that the AARB documents make the existence of a conspiracy more provable, not less.
The BBC, which journalistically, is rapidly disappearing up its own orifice, ran a stinkingly badly informed "minute by minute" special on Radio 2 on Nov 22nd. It aired at 6pm-ish UK time, to tie up with the six hour difference between GMT and CST. It was pure WC. I asked the presenter Jeremy Vine, on Twitter prior to the show going out, whose "timeline" he was using. He replied "Dallas. Is there another?" (can you believe this? Jeremy Vine also presents political and investigative shows on BBC TV!)
I replied that there are several aspects where even the mere timing is disputed, such as the Tippit shooting. He didn't reply.
FWIW, I think that by the 25/30 year mark, those that control the media (at least the visual media, if not the print) thought that they could afford to give CTs enough rope to hang themselves, and that the public would eventually tire of it all. That's why TMWKK - for all its faults - was allowed out, along with other shows like the one James Earl Jones hosted. Sure, they countered with Posner etc.
However, I think that this time they realised that they could not let their foot off the research community's throat. They could not, and did not, allow any oxygen of publicity to reach the research community, regardless of what the evidence is.