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Monday, August 22, 2011

life's a riot at sky news

Watching the coverage of the England riots on Sky News.
A bunch of street gangs have broken cover and are laying waste large segments of the Capital and other cities.
The coverage is top heavy with respectful fawning omosach interviews with the looters, rioters, and burners of London.
I am reminded of the writer PJ O'Rourke's remarks viz a vis Northern Ireland, where he claimed that the IRA supporters were the most journalised bunch of people he'd ever met.
O'Rourke warmed to the Northies as people (Something I never did) but he reckoned every one of them, from the children, to the hoodlums, to the mafia godfathers, to the aged crones, every last one, had been trained by decades of media exposure to present themselves as the paragons of sociological victimhood.
So too with Sky's presentation of the rioters of London.
Pattycake interviews.
"Do you feel deprived by the injustices of our unfeeling capitalist society?"
"Yeah Man. That's it. I'm, like, so angry about society and stuff that I rape women, break people's jaws, shoot police officers, burn down hundred year old businesses, raze whole communities to the ground. Honest Man. I'm more of a victim than anybody."
Well folks, obviously it's time for Sky News to put its money where it's left wing principles are.
Presumably we'll be seeing hoodies on internships at Sky HQ any time now.
There'll be hoodies reading the news.
Hoodies presenting the weather.
Hoodies phoning in interviews with rioters.
Hoodies reporting from Libya.
And Hoodies making Sky's owner Rupert Murdock his morning cup of tea.
Personally I can't wait.

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