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I like to follow the old dictum, “If you can’t say something good
about someone, don’t say anything at all. So this is what I have to say about
Margaret Thatcher.
Interesting trivia- Mrs. Thatcher was a chemist before entering politics, joining a few others who traded in their test tubes and flasks- Dolph Lundgren, actor Angela Merkel, politician Marion Barry, politician Francis I, Pope Barbara Ehrenreich, writer Janet Reno, politician
BB: As much as I like the BBC's content, the problem is that it IS the official news/etc organ of the UK government. Which puts the UK closer to North Korea, than to, say countries like the US where the propaganda organs of the ruling elites are relatively small and have a small audience share.
So here you have a question of whether or not the government (BBC) could censor this song. There's no way this question would have come up in the US, thanks to our First Amendment. This reminds of decades ago when the UK government did not like certain types of reporting on the war in Northern Ireland, so it banned it from the BBC.
Interesting trivia- Mrs. Thatcher was a chemist before entering politics, joining a few others
ReplyDeletewho traded in their test tubes and flasks-
Dolph Lundgren, actor
Angela Merkel, politician
Marion Barry, politician
Francis I, Pope
Barbara Ehrenreich, writer
Janet Reno, politician
She had her admirers and her critics .
ReplyDeleteBB: As much as I like the BBC's content, the problem is that it IS the official news/etc organ of the UK government. Which puts the UK closer to North Korea, than to, say countries like the US where the propaganda organs of the ruling elites are relatively small and have a small audience share.
DeleteSo here you have a question of whether or not the government (BBC) could censor this song. There's no way this question would have come up in the US, thanks to our First Amendment. This reminds of decades ago when the UK government did not like certain types of reporting on the war in Northern Ireland, so it banned it from the BBC.
BB: Sorry, I hate to break it to you, but Marion Barry never actually stepped away from the chemicals.
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