I can't remember the last time I read the Daily Mirror - it might have been when I was 'tasting' each of the British dailies to get a feel for which I felt most comfortable with, all the way back in August/September 1997 - if you haven't read my blog before, I settled on the Guardian - but today I have gone searching for a Mirror article referenced in a New York Times story. Crazy but true LOL.
The Times was doing a piece on the Channel Four mockumentary about Bush getting assassinated. In the film, this is due to take place in October 2007 in Chicago - the picture that has been going along with the story reminds me very much of what I have seen of Bobby Kennedy's killing back in 1968.
Didn't that also happen in Chicago? Or just the Democratic Convention of that year that basically looked like civil war on the streets about the whole Vietnam thing? This is from memory of archive footage on the History Channel I remind you, I wasn't around in 68 myself.
Anyways the assassination takes place against a similar backdrop of huge public protest against the Iraq war, and suspicion falls on a Syrian-American sniper or something. The important thing is that an interesting question arose from a Daily Mirror editorial, a situation which I don't think I have ever come across before.
'While Channel 4 chiefs are treading a fine line in terms of taste, it nevertheless provides dramatic food for thought. The continuing desperate violence in Iraq, the Taliban's resurgence in Afghanistan and the failure to capture Osama bin Laden are increasingly playing on the minds of Americans. The undoubted furore this will spark across the US and among the handful of Bush supporters in Europe must not obscure the real question facing us all.
Where is the War on Terror going? And how bad does it have to get before it gets better?'
It makes you think. Which is a good thing.
Paul
The Times was doing a piece on the Channel Four mockumentary about Bush getting assassinated. In the film, this is due to take place in October 2007 in Chicago - the picture that has been going along with the story reminds me very much of what I have seen of Bobby Kennedy's killing back in 1968.
Didn't that also happen in Chicago? Or just the Democratic Convention of that year that basically looked like civil war on the streets about the whole Vietnam thing? This is from memory of archive footage on the History Channel I remind you, I wasn't around in 68 myself.
Anyways the assassination takes place against a similar backdrop of huge public protest against the Iraq war, and suspicion falls on a Syrian-American sniper or something. The important thing is that an interesting question arose from a Daily Mirror editorial, a situation which I don't think I have ever come across before.
'While Channel 4 chiefs are treading a fine line in terms of taste, it nevertheless provides dramatic food for thought. The continuing desperate violence in Iraq, the Taliban's resurgence in Afghanistan and the failure to capture Osama bin Laden are increasingly playing on the minds of Americans. The undoubted furore this will spark across the US and among the handful of Bush supporters in Europe must not obscure the real question facing us all.
Where is the War on Terror going? And how bad does it have to get before it gets better?'
It makes you think. Which is a good thing.
Paul
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