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The What's Good on TV Thread Vs. S'all Good Man

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Seen the first one. Really need to watch the other 1 (2?). That's something I'll do next week. Cheers, Dan. Been meaning to watch it, for ages.
 
Robert Griffin III on Sky Sports 1 in 30 mins

Estimated to be the most watched Television event in the USA in the last year or so
 
American journo talking muchos sense on Newsnight atm. mainly in reference to the Jail US situation and the incorrect criminalization of drug related crime being treated on par with 'violent' crime. Worth a looksee. Should be available on iplayer/whutnot
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pzz69

Storyville. BBC4 next Monday (14th) 22.00hrs.

The war on drug is a war on the poor.
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Will have to give that a watch. Did you watch the one about inside the New York Times? Was rather interesting look at how the web is changing traditional print journalism.

Just watching Question Time. Nadine Harris is killing me, her half-smiles are making me want to shove an apple her mouth and throw foul old food at her, Big Issue founder seems to be trying to save the day though.
 
eclipsedesign said:
Just watching Question Time. Nadine Harris is killing me, her half-smiles are making me want to shove an apple her mouth and throw foul old food at her, Big Issue founder seems to be trying to save the day though.
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Nadine Dorries: such an unremittingly infuriating, self-obsessed, patronising cunt even the parliamentary Tory party have had enough of her, and that takes some fucking doing! John Bird was good value as always, his comment on welfare bang on the money: You have to fare well on welfare in order to say farewell to welfare. Nicely played that man.

In other news, really enjoyed Italy Unpacked on BBC2 earlier. Real visual feast, great cast of supporting characters, pretty entertaining all round.
 
StoneHappyMonday said:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pzz69

Storyville. BBC4 next Monday (14th) 22.00hrs.

The war on drug is a war on the poor.
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This was one of the best drug programmes I have ever seen and is available on IPlayer now. The guy who wrote The Wire is interviewed at length and makes much sense. The central point of the programme is that the war on drugs is a war on the poor. The demonisation of drugs may have started with racism and the demonisation of certain ethnic cultures, through opium (Chinese), marijuana (Mexicans), and heroin and crack cocaine (African-Americans) but it has how, whoops as the guy from The Wire puts it, started to sweep up the white working class too via methamphetamine.

And for those of you frustrated by our own governments refusal to listen to experts it has appointed, the programme illustrates America's own version of this through the sentencing recommendations panel. In America crack cocaine has been treated, relatively to powdered cocaine, for sentencing purposes, at a ratio of 100-1. Meaning that you would get the same sentence for 5g of crack as you would for 500g of powdered cocaine. The sentencing panel has long recommended this be scrapped and the two be equalised.

This has long been ignored. Only recently has Obama signed a new law that brings the ratio down to 18-1. Which is still a completely unjustifiable half arsed compromise and I hope Obama feels as stupid signing it as Hillary Clinton does when she sees herself on tape clapping like a penguin to her own husbands ridiculous anti- drug rhetoric.

The film is 1hr 45mins long. So you need an attention span...
 
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