10-02-2010, 08:07 PM
The piece was reasonably good at exposing the banality of TV news grammar, with its building blocks of open-ended piece-to-camera, GVs (aka General Views or filler shots), vox pops for "authenticity", strangely framed wides for graphics etc.
There's more to say on the grammar, but it's too banal for me to be bothered.
My favourite pastime whilst watching MSM News is to play ye olde parlour game known as....
SPOT THE SPOOK!
BBC News is stuffed full of them.
BBC journalists are not allowed to express opinions and are constitutionally & contractually obliged to be fair and balanced in their reports. However, the MI5 and MI6-owned BBC correspondents always editorialize.
Their "fair and balanced" reports are often a revealing insight into deep political agendas.
There's more to say on the grammar, but it's too banal for me to be bothered.
My favourite pastime whilst watching MSM News is to play ye olde parlour game known as....
SPOT THE SPOOK!
BBC News is stuffed full of them.
BBC journalists are not allowed to express opinions and are constitutionally & contractually obliged to be fair and balanced in their reports. However, the MI5 and MI6-owned BBC correspondents always editorialize.
Their "fair and balanced" reports are often a revealing insight into deep political agendas.
"It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted...."
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war
"Proverbs for Paranoids 4: You hide, They seek."
"They are in Love. Fuck the War."
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
"Ccollanan Pachacamac ricuy auccacunac yahuarniy hichascancuta."
The last words of the last Inka, Tupac Amaru, led to the gallows by men of god & dogs of war