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Someone at the BBC had the genius idea to broadcast, after the Royal Wedding, a trailer for that other British institution that’s stood the test of time… the BBC. And it’s a fab trailer that brought a whisper of a tear to my eye.

 

Unfortunately, the BBC wasn’t forward-thinking enough (at the time of writing) to actually put it on its own website or YouTube channel. And it comes to something when even the Royal Family are YouTubing, Flickring and Tweeting their way through it all. Fortunately, someone else has uploaded it:

As a TV nerd, I was flicking through all the other channels all morning, comparing the wedding coverage. Amazingly, CNN basically had a series of trump card captions comparing Kate to Diana, eg: “Diana didn’t go to college and was a nursery school teacher. Kate went to the University of St. Andrews and graduated in Art History”. That poor woman is going to suffer with mother-in-law issues for eternity.

Amusingly, Fox News also had full live coverage of the Royal Wedding. You’d have thought that Republicans/Tea Partiers would be against using tax payers’ money for a ceremony of pomp and circumstance…

Mirrored from almost witty.

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I always thought Fox News was incredibly right-wing and CNN was relatively impartial.

Now I'm watching Lou Dobbs berating "lame duck" Congress for "selling out" the American people. When less than an hour ago, Wolf Blitzer (made up name alert!) was reporting relatively positively on the economic shenanigans. Including Arnie saying to the US Government "Give me your money!"

And why are vox-pop people labelled as "taxpayers"? What next? "Citizens! Hear us!"

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