tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post3694712173359083127..comments2024-03-29T01:58:40.773+00:00Comments on Yorkshire Pudding: SyriaYorkshire Puddinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06019673884543913089noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-48438109840464391542013-07-26T00:18:13.692+01:002013-07-26T00:18:13.692+01:00I agree with you all! Luckily, off the beaten trac...I agree with you all! Luckily, off the beaten track of Big Media, there are still people and smaller media interested and trying to explain what's happening in the world.<br />On Syria, one of my students, a journalist has just come back from a 3-week stay there preparing a documentary on the situation of the Kurds stuck between Syria and Turkey. Hopefully, they'll get it edited and somehow into the public domain. It's hard to fight against the royalbabiesfootball syndrome, but possible!Brianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06613762050863476962noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-52061498325887739732013-07-24T21:21:37.641+01:002013-07-24T21:21:37.641+01:00If I may borrow a concept from Karl Marx, mainstre...If I may borrow a concept from Karl Marx, mainstream media reporting is the opiate of the people.<br /><br />Fortunately (or not), we have Rupert Murdoch's Fox Network (which is now the most watched Cable network on American television but is still not considered mainstream) to straighten all of us out. rhymeswithplaguehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10870439618129001633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-42061760719369848022013-07-24T14:23:32.225+01:002013-07-24T14:23:32.225+01:00Lettice Leaf, I couldn't agree more and have e...Lettice Leaf, I couldn't agree more and have expressed similar sentiments. If politicians noses were going to get squashed they would think twice about committing tthird parties to murder by proxy<br /><br />Bring back Jousting and proper moral values. ADRIANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07113961163396562781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-46100557222360031922013-07-24T12:29:09.423+01:002013-07-24T12:29:09.423+01:00There isn't a simple answer, We all sit in ou...There isn't a simple answer, We all sit in our ivory towers and do nothing. <br /><br />Brace yourselves... My idea is, each country's President or Prime Minister, who at the first whiff of argy-bargy, is sent to slug it out with their enemies equivilent. United Nations can referee with the words 'We want a good clean fight!'<br />The dispute is settled without the loss of life and innocent children being affected. The funny thing is, war would become a thing of the past overnight.<br /><br />LLXlettice leafhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17637631435776710877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-43339563663389302062013-07-24T11:23:27.001+01:002013-07-24T11:23:27.001+01:00Hippo hits the nail on the head - Syria has ceased...Hippo hits the nail on the head - Syria has ceased to be news because the situation is pretty much the same as it was months ago.<br /><br />Sad to say, the only way Syria will make its way back to the top of the news agenda is if there is military intervention and it is English or American troops that are being killed.Shooting Parrotshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07503757845024102476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-44710761852537998492013-07-24T10:49:59.330+01:002013-07-24T10:49:59.330+01:00I too was wondering at the lack of coverage. Last ...I too was wondering at the lack of coverage. Last time I heard Putin had told Dithery Dave to shit or get off the pot.<br />It has one up side I don't have to listen to William Hague droning on about what he might do or send to Syria. We all know he will do nothing.<br />The Royal parasi...whoops prince will be called Kevin. I told you that just the other day.ADRIANhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07113961163396562781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13883584.post-53819181647214098842013-07-24T10:34:16.771+01:002013-07-24T10:34:16.771+01:00I feel the same way, YP
I came to Angola and caug...I feel the same way, YP<br /><br />I came to Angola and caught the last decade of a three decades long civil war and was perplexed to note there was absolutely no coverage of it in the international press yet many more prople were dying here than are doing so in Syria. Yet another civil war in Africa just wasn't 'news'.Hippohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09468795398813061897noreply@blogger.com