http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-25956063 http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/29/news-users-manual-alain-de-botton-review
dbf i have been reading your old posts and i have learnt a great deal from them Thank you. I don't usually have an opinion about things I don't know a lot about I read the links get educated and just thank people for sharing . My lovely dad used to say many years ago ( he has been gone 32years) that we british were worse off than the Russians as the Russians knew exactly where they stood . Where we British for some reason believe we were better off than the rest of the world and he would end by saying we are lied to by most who run this country who control the press and the news and we will pay the consequences in years to come . How so right was he . Elsie
Owen,So that would leave me to say Nowt good comes from a mans mind if he has too much time to think . Elsie
Same kind of debate on this side of the pond as it seems that sometimes our major dispensers of news of the moment is only interested in telling us what it means as defined by a political view point, left or right.
I treat the main sources of headlines as just that, it's difficult to find much worthy of reading beyond basic facts online from eg BBC website so I've become very concerned, bar a few blogs and fairly reasoned sites, that 'the questionable' still isn't being questioned enough: not by our politicians, not by our media and more importantly not by us. As suggested does the majority sit back, slack-mouthed, eyes glazed over, hearing but not really 'digesting' the words, and as a result are we all becoming as dumbed-down as we are treated? In other words, do we get just enough from the coverage and soundbites to make us angry/scared/bored and not enough debate and commentary to allow us an informed opinion before the next latest headline comes along? If that's thinking too much ... apologies.
Hey D thats my old school report you get there sit back, slack-mouthed, eyes glazed over, hearing but not really 'digesting' the words, I suppose that is where the old paper (or even eprint) magazines come into play Economist The Week etc a bit more to get your teeth into
Somehow, I can't imagine that was so... [I still have my old reports; a few comments are disturbingly accurate.] Many copies of which can be found in our smallest room library!
short interview with the author here, about 30 mins and again 41m 30s http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b03t7d2z/Richard_Bacon_12_02_2014/
