Great stuff, as always. Do they even have a Blue Peter garden these days? Last time I watched it everything was measured under the Winchester standards. So, next Tuesday.
To be fair, the news have been "great British" for decades. Compared to other countries, the news coverage in the UK is _extremely_ inwardly looking. News from abroad are as rare as hens' teeth. They would rather spend the entire 10 o'clock news by talking about some obscure celebrity whose 20th anniversary of death it is today than report what happened in France, let alone in countries like, let's say, Moldova
That's not true, when there's a natural disaster or a plane crash the news will point out "..which killed 473 people, 12 of them were British" to remind us that incidents abroad only matter if British people were involved and we should be 2.7% as sad about this disaster as we would if it had happened in Colchester.
@@martinperry1843 That's a very good point. Would our friends living in France, Germany etc care to tell us whether bad news are reported like that in their countries, too?
@@martinperry1843 Lol. I remember a guy - a commenter - on a Brexit blog (run by a leaver) who insisted covid was not a real danger since no member of the Westminster cabinet had caught it .... Greetings from Bavaria
@@olmostgudinaf8100 They are reported for what they are. Catastrophes, accidents etc.. Usually at the end of the report there is mentioned, in one sentence, if and how many German citizens were among the victims.
"compared to other countries" I spent a week in the US in (before covid) and heard nothing of the oputside world AT ALL in the entire time. It was frightening. Compared to that, our news is vastly better at covering going-ons in other countries. It's no wonder all the yanks think the world stops at the US coastline.
Authentically British as fish and chips? Fried fish like in “fish & chips” is a Spanish/Portuguese creation of Dutch immigrant Jewish people to the countries around the 16th century and chips are a French/Belgium invention a century or so after that. Putting the two things together may have been a British invention but that’s not exactly an achievement. It’s like claiming to be the inventor of tomato ketchup just because you saw some tomato sauce and decided to add it to your chips….
Privately educated was the line. If only a TV company did an investigation on how the 7% who are privately educated actually run everything, whilst the 93% have to work even harder to get anywhere.
Apart from the disasters TV news is addicted to there was little coverage of European news and cultures in the 47 years we were in the EEC/EU. We in Scotland have had enough and will see the rest of the UK back in the EU in ten years.
"Oh!!" Brilliant again. Matt. To think that the tiny Blue Peter Garden can feed all the actors, (British, of course) who will be taking part in the Great British......................(fill your own words in here).
