tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post761257431354539766..comments2024-03-25T15:07:41.959+00:00Comments on Nigeness: The Hadow-BBC MissionNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-48520319029299533202009-05-15T18:24:00.000+01:002009-05-15T18:24:00.000+01:00Absolutely - and they don't keep sending an expens...Absolutely - and they don't keep sending an expensive dummy like Huw Edwards to countries where they've already got perfectly good reporters.Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-9162870005205209572009-05-15T17:50:00.000+01:002009-05-15T17:50:00.000+01:00The reporter on the story, David Shukman (the BBC'...The reporter on the story, David Shukman (the BBC's Environment Correspondent), seems to spend most of his life in a helicopter or plane.<br /><br />It's not the implicit hypocrisy that bothers me, it's the expense. ITN and C4 don't seem to spend nearly as much on this sort of palaver, but then they don't get free money.Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-24883376711035791882009-05-15T14:04:00.000+01:002009-05-15T14:04:00.000+01:00Meantime our pension schemes are in trouble becaus...Meantime our pension schemes are in trouble because, amongst other things, we are all living too long.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-78351103432035216972009-05-15T12:00:00.000+01:002009-05-15T12:00:00.000+01:00Oh yes that's good stuff - Gill - who'd have thoug...Oh yes that's good stuff - Gill - who'd have thought it?Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-74620271456039714532009-05-15T11:26:00.000+01:002009-05-15T11:26:00.000+01:00I read a good article in some american journal the...I read a good article in some american journal the other day about mankind's in-built instinct to love apocalypse scenarios.<br /><br />and AAGill, that once rather good critic had some fun (and true) stuff to say about Moonbat this weekend:<br /><br />"The real killer thing is the schadenfreude: the naked, transparent, hand-rubbing glee with which they pass on every shame, sadness and terror. No disaster is too appalling or imminent that the green movement can’t caper and keen with a messianic glee. Take George Monbiot, the Malvolio of the green movement, who, as I’ve pointed out before, would be a geography teacher if it weren’t for the amazing good fortune of imminent apocalypse. Every week, he sifts the minute details of demise, like a jolly self-congratulatory Scrooge. Most of us would rather drown with the polar bears and Bangladesh than get in a lifeboat steered by Monbiot. This is a real problem. Or, rather, it’s a serious blockage on the road to solving the real problem. Eco-advocates are viscerally unconscionable people. The enormous, vicarious pleasure they get from frightening folk makes them repellent, and they get all hurt when we don’t thank them for it. Nobody wants to trust a future to a bunch of malcontents who plainly have so much of their self-worth and cachet invested in it all going to hell in a recycled handcart. This isn’t merely a question of presentation, or marketing, or tone, or spin, this is serious cultural blindness and childish arrogance."willhttp://www.ruminantics.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com