Dave Barry's Blog: "The show goes on everywhere here: The underground is running again, and people are resuming their lives. I remain awed by how calmly Londoners have handled the terrorist attack. I believe that one reason for this is that the British TV news people have displayed less excitability and hysteria than American TV news people displayed in response to the Michael Jackson verdict. That's not an exaggeration: That's really how it appears."
I think Barry's definitely onto something here.
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I think that for the British it was no surprise. They reacted as if they knew it was coming.
As they used to say during the war - "London can take it."
With the coverage of the Gulf War the American networks realized that the news could be just as much a ratings grabber as their original programming.
So the television news became television entertainment.
American television "news" is an embarrassment.
The BBC were as sombre and unbiased as always, ITV more sensational. And the tabloids?
Well, when the headline of The Daily Star is "BASTARDS" and Al Qaeda is spelled wrong on the front page, you get a measure of how truly diverse the reportage can be.
I keep having this image of some crusty old Brit who lived through the Blitz sitting on his park bench and telling people "Yer call that a bombing? In my day, laddie, we had REAL bombing. bin Laden, that great poof..."
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