Saturday, February 19, 2005
The Funniest Thing I've Read All Day
UK Tory politician and apparent chowderhead Iain Duncan Smith thinks that the Tories can use conservabloggers to take over the UK media. Sorry, IDS, but judging from this example of what passes for your reasoning, I think I know why your party has been dead as a doornail for a decade in the UK. Certain conditions obtain in the US that don't obtain over in your neck of the woods -- here's two of them, just off the top of my head: A lack of a strong and independent public broadcasting system. PBS is at the mercy of whichever party rules Congress, and has in any event never drawn the viewership of the commercial networks. The BBC, on the other hand, is not only the UK's oldest and most trusted broadcaster, it's also funded directly from yearly license fees and need not bow and scrape to whoever the Prime Minister happens to be. No organized right-wing moneybags seeking to undermine the UK media to spread the right-wing message. The worst you can do is Rupert Murdoch, and even he can't be as right-wing in the UK as he is in America.
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