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Related: About this forumSo what has SKY-TV been like re: the death of Matron?
I assume all the Murdoch organs are in full void mode. Any UK DU'ers have the stomach to watch them?
Warpy
(110,907 posts)I know how they feel, I remember the week long Reagan death pageant and it looks like Thatcher is going to get one pretty much like it, squandering 3 million pounds the country doesn't have to squander.
Even dead, she's a selfish cow.
I might go to the display of her body but I'd be taking a stick to poke it with, just to make sure.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,152 posts)She's pretty much taken over the schedules - I suppose they all had their specials already edited, since she'd been frail for a long time. I saw a bit of Channel 4 News, who at least had Alexei Sayle on (a left wing comedian, at his peak during her time). But Sky would, I imagine, be pretty much all praise, all the time.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,152 posts)You can call it socially liberal, I suppose. And it's not as 'establishment' as the BBC. It is a public corporation, whose charter says it must be 'diverse'. It runs adverts, and many programmes are made/bought to be 'commercial'; but it doesn't have shareholders who take profits - if it makes a surplus, the money has to go back into programme making, or feature film making (it was involved in producing many of the best known British films from the 80s onwards).
T_i_B
(14,734 posts).....and it was wall to wall Thatcher. If that's what the free rag on the buses is like then it's a fair assumption that the rest of the newspapers will be a full on Maggie Thatcher wankfest.
If there is anything else going on in the world, it's a struggle to hear about it from our media today.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,152 posts)which isn't surprising, really, given what she did to those regions:
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2013/04/09/local-newspapers-across-uk-less-glowing-about-thatcher/
T_i_B
(14,734 posts)....although I tend not to read that paper for the simple reason that it's rubbish.
LeftishBrit
(41,190 posts)I don't watch it at home in any case (thought they'd changed to pay-to-view; apparently they haven't, but I'm not even interested in it for free!). But I'll certainly make sure to give it a miss completely during the Long Worship Session for Our Blessed Martyr St Margaret. Even TV news in general is only possible for me in quite small doses at the moment, with all our right-wing politicians from Boris Johnson to Tony Blair lining up to give fulsome tributes.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)Its a freeview channel same as Al Jazeera etc. I watch "what the papers say" most nights @11.30 - provides a reasonable balance for the following day's news.
LeftishBrit
(41,190 posts)but evidently they didn't. Shows how strong my desire to watch Sky News is, that I didn't check this! Certainly I'm not going to give it a go, as long as this Thatchergasm is going on. The papers and BBC news are bad enough right now.
dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)to accept the "opinions" of any news channels. Would be as daft as accepting opinions from blogs. Best just stick with cold hard facts - she's dead. Much to my surprise whatever she did or didn't do has overtaken chained CPI here in importance.
fedsron2us
(2,863 posts)and on all TV channels. For a moment I thought I was back in the 1980s
BTW my top tip for winding up Thatcher lovers is not to rant about the iniquities of her government but to suggest politely that her historical significance is overrated and that Stanley Baldwin was probably the best Tory peace time Prime Minister of the 20th Century. I have found it works a treat. I even had one idiot accusing me of promoting my 'socialist heroes' (I kid you not). Quite what Stanley Baldwin would have made of his being placed alongside Keir Hardie and Nye Bevan I can only imagine.
fedsron2us
(2,863 posts)coming up ? We can but hope.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,152 posts)We just have to hope he didn't inherit her longevity genes.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)The mind reels.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,152 posts)(In Dec 2012 - a bit further back that I realised)
non sociopath skin
(4,972 posts)They obviously got a group deal when they made their pact with Satan.
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