Since this started, twenty-odd days ago, me and Andy have been posting a daily news overview. I have had to seriouly curtail my surfing activities, diving has long since gone out the window and I can only find the odd half hour to fit in my ogling practise. I watch most of the tv nets mentioned above and visit all of their websites. Two things have become obvious to me in that time.
When this first kicked off, all of the stations were doing their own thing. One network had one story, another network had a differant story. The overall view was more inclusive, more accurate. Sure, they all used "pool shots" where a beeb reporter stands in front of a story and talks about that story, for instance. When it`s shown on CNN, say, the beeb guy is edited out of the shot and the CNN guy does a voice-over. Since about day three, that changed. Now, what is shown on CNN matches almost perfectly, what is being shown on every other station.There is hardly any differance between the French Canel Neuf, NBC or the beeb or any other station. That`s scary. The two exceptions are a Spanish network and Russian tv, who are similar, and Al Jazeera. That`s my perception. I don`t speak Russian or Arabic but can get by in Spanish and French, the German station broadcasts in German and English. Don`t take my word for this, look at the websites. They look like they have all been writen by the same hand. They probably have. And that`s even more scary.
The second thing is how often the main networks nick stuff off the bloggers. The first to give credit to these guys was Reuters, they mentioned a source as
www.blogsofwar.com and overnight, this site was transformed. Because of bandwidth probs caused by millions of hits, it is now down to the bare minimum. There are many blog sites, ranging from the mostly accurate to the fantasists. Take the time and you`ll find out which is which. The sources for these sites are sometimes far more clued-up than the so-called professional reporters.
Black Propaganda( the production of storys which sound like they could be true) has long been one of my interests and I liked to spot the plants in British newspapers. Anything from" oops, I`ve just bit me pillow" Mandelson, was easy to spot as his nose would "intumesce"
The best example of Black Propaganda that you will be aware of was selling Herman the idea that the invasion of Europe would be in the Pas de Calais. There were Sigs troops in Kent who generated enough traffic to convince Herman that his "best worst case scenario" was about to come true. He bit bigtime. Seems like we are, as well.
ARMY boy, beeb kicked off Elmers tugs? I don`t think so mate. You are confusing this(or CNN is) with the story that the crew on the Ark requested Sky replace the beeb as it was less critical of British Forces in particular, and the Coalition in general.
Furthermore, can anyone tell me the source of the alledged Blue on Blue incident caused by British Troops engaging a US armoured vehicle as I have seen no mention of this, on any network.
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