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Like confusing things like Strategic Marketing Enigin (a thing I saw on the web which I am sure makes perfect sense but I am too business-thick to understand), there are some things on TV that defy explanation as to how they were allowed to come about. Things that should not be seen by anyone except prisoners who have commited some terrible crime. One would be Simon Cowell’s square head being allowed on to TV (always with the kind of full-frontal angle that allows the squareness to run riot on millions of viewers) and the other would be the BBC News in the morning and the section of the show that attempts to get “fresh”. And “cool"and every other word that makes you feel queasy and uncomfortable. Yes, in this section the BBC Newsreaders abandon the normal formal hoo-ha and go for being cool and stuff, so that all the youngsters will think they are cool and suitably “with it”. Only it’s transparent in an almost perverse way. To be honest, it makes me glad I am not a youngster today…
For example, they had a thing on about poets last week. Not just ANY poets but street poets with histories or drug abuse and gang violence. That was great. You got to see the Newsreaders nodding along as if to say, “Yes, there was a brief moment in 1962 when I did the same and it was HORRIFIC!, and then smile when the poets talked about a brutal murder which they saw first hand.
Please, BBC, you know you do some things well – documentaries presented by people with …Borough in their second name and the like – but stick to that stuff. Don’t pollute the air with things so uncool, right?