Nightline request TONIGHT

[Matt]

Something slightly different... does anyone get American news channel ABC?

If so 'Nightline' is doing a documentary on the adult porn industry ( details here ) and I'd really like to see it.

I don't have ABC, so if you do, would you mind taping it and sending it to me - I don't mind paying a reasonable price.

Easiest money you'll ever make!

Cheers,


Matt

PS Email me if you can, cos I appreciate this is a little o/t

[magoo]

I do get some ABC programmes either via trans-atlantic downlinks designed for the likes of the BBC or Sky to pick up or via the European media links which show raw footage for any tv networks that fancy covering a story but I`m not sure about nightline because it might be encrypted. I will keep an eye open.

BTW watching the raw newsfeeds makes you realise how much our news is censored in this country. Not just for political reasons but also all the horrible war footage that gets bounced around the globe is also edited before we see it. And also domestic stories, I picked up a feed tonight from Reuters showing a Brazilian policeman blowing a shoplifters brains out. That will be shown all over europe but not on UK tv stations because we like things soft and cuddly in this country. Reality is not what our media want us to see.

BTW I am not a journalist. Just a satellite anorak.

[magoo]

And a sat anorak who cant spell either. Sats is wot I will call them in future. Also I expect the all-knowing Matt was hoping for a better class of reply or respondent. Eh Matt?

Viva Max Hardcore (only joking Matt)

[Two Tongue Ted]

Ah, an interesting post magoo. It is indeed a fact that those who control the media only allow the stories and pictures to surface which back up their own political/bigoted/loony views. The journalists and programme controllers also like to have a quite life, so they stick with 'safe' i.e. bland stories and footage, as they do not want their bosses, The Daily Mail and subsequently politicians to get on their case. Just look what happened to Channel 4's Brass Eye program a while back when it pointed out a few home truths about the paedophile hype industry.

It is supremely patronising and offensive to those with half a brain that some cunt deems that they might be upset at a seeing the reality of the world and take it upon themselves to present a sanitised version of events. This affects the population at large, dulls their senses, shapes their opinions, views, and voting habits. But of course that's what the politicians and newspaper proprietors want. Unfortunately, when people?s cosy little lives and cruel reality collide it came come as a terrible shock.

Don't accept censorship. Actively oppose it at every opportunity. ?They? are taking the piss.


T.T.T.

[Matt]

Magoo, thanks for recognising my all-knowingness. Did you manage to catch the programme? If not don't worry too much - turns out ABC actually sell their programmes on video anyway!

Good points about the news - thought provoking stuff..


Matt

[magoo]

Sorry Matt it was nowhere to be seen. Looks like you will have to buy it. I know Sky News repeat some of ABCs output but I dont think Nightline is one of them.

On the subject of censorship of the news. I saw an interview with a BBC journo who filmed a massacre in Bosnia a few years ago and he had a huge row with his bosses in London when they refused to show the footage. They claimed it might upset the viewers. Surely it would be better to allow people to see the true horror of what goes on.

Sorry Im off topic I know!

[The POPe]

The Eleventh commandment

"thou shall stick to the topic"

Say twenty hail Marys's and your forgiven my son

[magoo]

Thankyou Your Holyness. But I thought you lived in the Vatican not South Oz..stralia.

[The PoPe]

Said your 20 hail marys my son Magoo.

Off topic again,lets make it 40.

Down in South Oz teaching the theory of the Rythmn method to my Arch Bishops.(LOL)

[Matt]

Well I don't see you posting stuff to get us on topic again? Why don't you keep it shut until you contirbute something of worth, huh?