24-02-2012, 01:52 PM
You are spot on there.....Remember when World in Action first came out and Panorama, good reporting and exposays, I am ashamed to watch Panorama these days it just seems to be a contrived load of tripe, the media has gone down the pan so far as I am concerned most journalistic reports seem to be "embedded" when on foriegn assignments etc. When i was younger the Vietnam conflict was in full swing there were plenty of uncensored photo's, film and reports coming out, one was a live execution with a bullet to the head, who can ever forget the little girl running down the road from her village after the napalm attack and the skin hanging from her body, we had good reporters then with the likes of Brian Baron and for me Julien Pettifer in particular exposing the reallity and real horrors of conflict and war. Horrific and brutal as these images were, at the end of the day they helped to change a nations opinion on what was really happening. I am not saying that there arn't any good reporters around today as know doubt there are, it just seems to me that they are all being gagged......Along with the rest of us...what we need is a real demo to wake things up....I am ending this rant here as I realise it might be going the wrong way for the forum.
Lawrence.
Lawrence.
