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Aug. 6th, 2003 11:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Watched Storyville. Was depressed.
Storyville is a BBC documentary strand, basically, documentaries by British filmmakers filmed up close and personal and often somewhere abroad. This one was about mineral mining in South America (sorry I missed the beginning and couldn't figure out where abouts in SA). Basically it was killing them. Mainly because it would cost too much to put in decent health and safety measures.
Of course this programme was hidden away on the satellite channels. Not on say a main channel because obviously people don't want to hear about people dying because they mine minerals that we use. The Storyville strand used to show at some godforsaken hour on BBC 2, so it being on at 9 ish is probably an improvement, except that it's on BBC 4, which is the obscure arty channel that no-one watches.
While I normally say that the supposed dumbing down of things is just media induced hysteria, I'm starting to doubt that. I mean really, if they insist on having Pop Idol/Big Brother/Fame Academy etc on all the time surely they can find a hour for this sort of programming on normal TV.
I'll shut up now since I'm starting to sound like my Mother.
Storyville is a BBC documentary strand, basically, documentaries by British filmmakers filmed up close and personal and often somewhere abroad. This one was about mineral mining in South America (sorry I missed the beginning and couldn't figure out where abouts in SA). Basically it was killing them. Mainly because it would cost too much to put in decent health and safety measures.
Of course this programme was hidden away on the satellite channels. Not on say a main channel because obviously people don't want to hear about people dying because they mine minerals that we use. The Storyville strand used to show at some godforsaken hour on BBC 2, so it being on at 9 ish is probably an improvement, except that it's on BBC 4, which is the obscure arty channel that no-one watches.
While I normally say that the supposed dumbing down of things is just media induced hysteria, I'm starting to doubt that. I mean really, if they insist on having Pop Idol/Big Brother/Fame Academy etc on all the time surely they can find a hour for this sort of programming on normal TV.
I'll shut up now since I'm starting to sound like my Mother.
