tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554094839017805685.post4617657999744809449..comments2023-08-02T09:42:47.494+01:00Comments on Moridura - - - ©Copyright Peter Curran 2015: A wee collection of ‘insult’ videos – and P.G.Wodehouse …moriduraalt.blogspot.comhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17002920496823680378noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554094839017805685.post-69295913381037208922013-02-03T10:55:47.477+00:002013-02-03T10:55:47.477+00:00KCRA - If you've read the blog, they are at th...KCRA - If you've read the blog, they are at the end of it, displayed beneath the text.<br /><br />regards,<br /><br /><br />Petermoriduraalt.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17002920496823680378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554094839017805685.post-16801832214838951372013-02-03T00:58:26.639+00:002013-02-03T00:58:26.639+00:00Where are the clips, please? Where are the clips, please? KCRAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00739860805170416209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554094839017805685.post-1187061607841386792013-02-02T23:22:10.265+00:002013-02-02T23:22:10.265+00:00Thanks, californiancrofter.
Social media undoubt...Thanks, californiancrofter. <br /><br />Social media undoubtedly offers a platform to challenge established media. (we have more trouble with indigenous Scottish media than with UK London-based media: English, Welsh and Northern Ireland local independent media, by and large don't pose any problem).<br /><br />Whether the challenge is effective currently - or will be - is a big question. There is no hard evidence either way - but the hardest evidence will be the outcome of the referendum. Even then, we'll never know what the influence of media was, anymore than we've ever known what its influence is on general elections.<br /><br />But the referendum is different, and more significant than any UK general election ever held - and perhaps in its full ramifications, bigger than the entry into Europe was.<br /><br />All I know is that media matters, facts matter, information matters, and so does emotion and factors that transcend reason.<br /><br />My God, I hope I live to see it through!<br /><br />regards,<br /><br />Petermoriduraalt.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17002920496823680378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554094839017805685.post-62898810249107871632013-02-02T23:12:07.087+00:002013-02-02T23:12:07.087+00:00Thanks, Bob.
I don't think the BBC should hav...Thanks, Bob.<br /><br />I don't think the BBC should have edited out the clip. On what grounds? Taste? It was legal, if ill-considered.<br /><br />Thanks for posting<br /><br />regards,<br /><br />Petermoriduraalt.blogspot.comhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17002920496823680378noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554094839017805685.post-35771341364235210762013-02-02T22:54:41.633+00:002013-02-02T22:54:41.633+00:00Can social media offer a platform that challenges ...Can social media offer a platform that challenges the established English media?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7554094839017805685.post-32348565579516546542013-02-02T21:49:50.267+00:002013-02-02T21:49:50.267+00:00I agree, Peter. It's definitely NOT a question...I agree, Peter. It's definitely NOT a question of being unable to take a joke. It's a question of said "jokes" being part of a continuing tendency to see the Scots themselves as a joke. I've told plenty of jokes about stingy, drunk, or over-religious Scots myself, but I do not see our whole society as being depicted truthfully therein. Much of England, in my personal experience and judging from people's comments in the media, DOES however. I spent many years in London being addressed as "Jock" by people with whom I worked and socialised because they simply could not be bothered remembering my name. Taffies and Paddies were in a similar boat. Scotland was viewed as some kind of amusing parody of a country by a population that, I am convinced, had great difficulty even imagining it was real.<br />The amusement is changing however. The thought that their kind of society might not be wanted or loved by their Northern neighbours is fuelling English indignation in many quarters and that this has taken a venomous turn can be confirmed by the extracts you have shown and by a glance at the English Press and their comments sections. Steve Bell's cartoon was a disgrace - especially since it was published by a supposed "Liberal" newspaper. The bile that comes from the English edition of the Daily Mail and its readers is little short of disgusting. <br />And then there's the BBC. I know you have defended the BBC as simply doing its job in the past, but you have to concede that it's not exactly behaving impartially these days. Quick to blow up a chance comment by an Irish politician into a definitive negative statement about our position re the EU, they have shown no signs of reporting her subsequent statement that they'd simply got it wrong. Question Time is an edited programme. Someone must have decided to leave that comment - and the subsequent audience approval of it - in the final edit. Even Dimbleby called it "chauvinistic" and yet the BBC let it go out - clearly implying they saw no fault with it - or, indeed, that they approved. If someone in a Scottish edition of QT had made a similar remark about England and it had been greeted as warmly by the studio audience, I'm pretty damnn sure the media ceiling would have fallen in on the haggis-munching Braveheart-watching Nationalist racists - as Mail readers seem fond of calling us.Bobelixhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09560064848522334094noreply@blogger.com