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I know, I know, it should be in the TV forum, but I'm hoping for some decent replies and comments here.
GMTV, in all their wisdom, have decided to campaign for aid for South Africa. And to help in this tireless campaign, that will probably end in a few weeks, they've roped in John Stapleton, of Newsround fame. And what he's doing is going round various towns in South Africa, approaching residents and going in their houses, seeing the squalor they live in. Except they don't. One of the houses he went in yesterday had a TV, a fridge, and bunk beds. And the reason for their squalor? 8 kids to one room. It was a big room though, and they all had a bed each.
It's almost as if the producers at ITV, or GMTV, or wherever, said "where can we send a reporter, to make it look like we're doing some good humanitarian work, and he won't get speared and eaten by the locals?". And Nike t-shirt, Reebok trainer wearing continent South Africa was the answer. I could have punched John Stapleton, square in the face for some of the nonsense he was coming out with, trying to pull at our heartstrings. If I was a South African, I'd be even more insulted, because the crux of the programme was that they didn't live like us! How dare the vile blackies not live in brick houses and work in offices all day! The squalor! How can they live with themselves, they must be queuing up to kill themselves!
The thing that really got me though, was how everyone they interviewed was smiling. It was more of an "after the UN aid came" affair - smiles all round, like all their problems were solved by a few bags of rice. And don't get me wrong, they do have problems over there. Violence and corruption is commonplace, but they're not starving, or living under bad conditions by any stretch of the imagination. If you want bad living conditions, I'm thinking Somalia, Ethiopia and Rwanda. Not the "nicer" parts of South Africa where they sent the crew. Basturds.
GMTV, in all their wisdom, have decided to campaign for aid for South Africa. And to help in this tireless campaign, that will probably end in a few weeks, they've roped in John Stapleton, of Newsround fame. And what he's doing is going round various towns in South Africa, approaching residents and going in their houses, seeing the squalor they live in. Except they don't. One of the houses he went in yesterday had a TV, a fridge, and bunk beds. And the reason for their squalor? 8 kids to one room. It was a big room though, and they all had a bed each.
It's almost as if the producers at ITV, or GMTV, or wherever, said "where can we send a reporter, to make it look like we're doing some good humanitarian work, and he won't get speared and eaten by the locals?". And Nike t-shirt, Reebok trainer wearing continent South Africa was the answer. I could have punched John Stapleton, square in the face for some of the nonsense he was coming out with, trying to pull at our heartstrings. If I was a South African, I'd be even more insulted, because the crux of the programme was that they didn't live like us! How dare the vile blackies not live in brick houses and work in offices all day! The squalor! How can they live with themselves, they must be queuing up to kill themselves!
The thing that really got me though, was how everyone they interviewed was smiling. It was more of an "after the UN aid came" affair - smiles all round, like all their problems were solved by a few bags of rice. And don't get me wrong, they do have problems over there. Violence and corruption is commonplace, but they're not starving, or living under bad conditions by any stretch of the imagination. If you want bad living conditions, I'm thinking Somalia, Ethiopia and Rwanda. Not the "nicer" parts of South Africa where they sent the crew. Basturds.
ßora† §agdiyeV wrote:
> you heartless get, those people have to manage with a car each!
All they had in the evenings was Sky Digital, a Playstation, and they had to use a washing macine! ;-o
> you heartless get, those people have to manage with a car each!
All they had in the evenings was Sky Digital, a Playstation, and they had to use a washing macine! ;-o
Yeah, that does sound remarkably like a feelgood sop; "How can those whinging lefties say that Africa is nothing more than a battleground for resources in much the same way Orwell predicted it would be in 1984? Why, just look at all the smiling and happy people! All MUST be well with the world; I saw it on TV".
Send him to the Congo; rich in diamonds and gold, and coincidentally wracked with war the very instant Mobotu stopped kowtowing to the west. Civil war continues until Laurant Kabila, with the support of the west and other African nations, takes over. But oh, look at that; he stops towing the western line and is assassinated...
Do I sound at all cynical to anyone?
Send him to the Congo; rich in diamonds and gold, and coincidentally wracked with war the very instant Mobotu stopped kowtowing to the west. Civil war continues until Laurant Kabila, with the support of the west and other African nations, takes over. But oh, look at that; he stops towing the western line and is assassinated...
Do I sound at all cynical to anyone?
I think it was Stapleton. It was Craven that did Newsround, wasn't it. Either way, he showed about as much emotion as that bloke on Crimewatch last night, talking about the little girl that was murdered: "This has...really touched...us all. Next up...!".
Was it John Stapleton or John Craven?
you heartless get, those people have to manage with a car each!
My mums cousins used to live there - they had to either entrench themselves in (barbed wire, no life, guns etc) or move, otherwise their mum (who witnessed a murder in a hospital) would be murdered herself. Evil, evil state of affairs. But not something that will be solved by Red Cross food convoys etc.
Indeed, I can imagine other countries in more dire need of aid, not 'help' as such, much more so than South Africa, such as the ones you listed.
Indeed, I can imagine other countries in more dire need of aid, not 'help' as such, much more so than South Africa, such as the ones you listed.
I know, I know, it should be in the TV forum, but I'm hoping for some decent replies and comments here.
GMTV, in all their wisdom, have decided to campaign for aid for South Africa. And to help in this tireless campaign, that will probably end in a few weeks, they've roped in John Stapleton, of Newsround fame. And what he's doing is going round various towns in South Africa, approaching residents and going in their houses, seeing the squalor they live in. Except they don't. One of the houses he went in yesterday had a TV, a fridge, and bunk beds. And the reason for their squalor? 8 kids to one room. It was a big room though, and they all had a bed each.
It's almost as if the producers at ITV, or GMTV, or wherever, said "where can we send a reporter, to make it look like we're doing some good humanitarian work, and he won't get speared and eaten by the locals?". And Nike t-shirt, Reebok trainer wearing continent South Africa was the answer. I could have punched John Stapleton, square in the face for some of the nonsense he was coming out with, trying to pull at our heartstrings. If I was a South African, I'd be even more insulted, because the crux of the programme was that they didn't live like us! How dare the vile blackies not live in brick houses and work in offices all day! The squalor! How can they live with themselves, they must be queuing up to kill themselves!
The thing that really got me though, was how everyone they interviewed was smiling. It was more of an "after the UN aid came" affair - smiles all round, like all their problems were solved by a few bags of rice. And don't get me wrong, they do have problems over there. Violence and corruption is commonplace, but they're not starving, or living under bad conditions by any stretch of the imagination. If you want bad living conditions, I'm thinking Somalia, Ethiopia and Rwanda. Not the "nicer" parts of South Africa where they sent the crew. Basturds.
GMTV, in all their wisdom, have decided to campaign for aid for South Africa. And to help in this tireless campaign, that will probably end in a few weeks, they've roped in John Stapleton, of Newsround fame. And what he's doing is going round various towns in South Africa, approaching residents and going in their houses, seeing the squalor they live in. Except they don't. One of the houses he went in yesterday had a TV, a fridge, and bunk beds. And the reason for their squalor? 8 kids to one room. It was a big room though, and they all had a bed each.
It's almost as if the producers at ITV, or GMTV, or wherever, said "where can we send a reporter, to make it look like we're doing some good humanitarian work, and he won't get speared and eaten by the locals?". And Nike t-shirt, Reebok trainer wearing continent South Africa was the answer. I could have punched John Stapleton, square in the face for some of the nonsense he was coming out with, trying to pull at our heartstrings. If I was a South African, I'd be even more insulted, because the crux of the programme was that they didn't live like us! How dare the vile blackies not live in brick houses and work in offices all day! The squalor! How can they live with themselves, they must be queuing up to kill themselves!
The thing that really got me though, was how everyone they interviewed was smiling. It was more of an "after the UN aid came" affair - smiles all round, like all their problems were solved by a few bags of rice. And don't get me wrong, they do have problems over there. Violence and corruption is commonplace, but they're not starving, or living under bad conditions by any stretch of the imagination. If you want bad living conditions, I'm thinking Somalia, Ethiopia and Rwanda. Not the "nicer" parts of South Africa where they sent the crew. Basturds.