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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color="#333300" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#333300;mso-no-proof:
yes'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color="#333300" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#333300;mso-no-proof:
yes'>>>…</span></font> despite the usual quality of their coverage,
the BBC went for the "kids these days" angle. <font color="#333300"><span
style='color:#333300'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3 color="#333300" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333300'>>></span></font>What got me in
this coverage <font color="#333300"><span style='color:#333300'>…</span></font>is
that it mostly seemed to reify tired categories instead of<font color="#333300"><span
style='color:#333300'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3 color="#333300" face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:#333300'>>></span></font> using this as an
opportunity to see the actual connections <font color="#333300"><span
style='color:#333300'>…<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color="#333300" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#333300;mso-no-proof:
yes'>Sounds about like the BBC I know, esp online. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 color="#333300" face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New";color:#333300;mso-no-proof:
yes'>As a N American living in the </span></font><st1:country-region><st1:place><font
size=2 color="#333300" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#333300;mso-no-proof:yes'>UK</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><font
size=2 color="#333300" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#333300;mso-no-proof:yes'> since 1998, I’m
familiar with the tendency to have exaggerated respect (over there) for British
newsmedia (over here) – they don’t deserve it. The lack of depth in
coverage of local politics (except for </span></font><st1:City><st1:place><font
size=2 color="#333300" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#333300;mso-no-proof:yes'>London</span></font></st1:place></st1:City><font
size=2 color="#333300" face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Courier New";color:#333300;mso-no-proof:yes'>), in particular, is
appalling here, and the tendency not to systematically supply background
information seems an unhealthy combination of parochialism and elitism – “if
you don’t already know what we’re referring to, you ought to, and
we certainly won’t explain”. Eg, any N American newspaper (and they
are frequently appalling in other respects – this is not a matter of
chauvinism) would, on first mention, have said something like, “Retail
giant Tesco blah blah…”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=2 color="#333300"
face=Garamond><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Garamond;mso-bidi-font-family:
Arial;color:#333300'><span style='mso-tab-count:1'> </span>-p-<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>Peter L Patrick<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>Dept. of Language and Linguistics<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>University</span></font></st1:PlaceType><span
style='mso-no-proof:yes'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span style='mso-no-proof:
yes'>Essex</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>Wivenhoe</span></font></st1:PlaceName><span
style='mso-no-proof:yes'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span style='mso-no-proof:
yes'>Park</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:place><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>Colchester</span></font></st1:place><span
style='mso-no-proof:yes'> CO4 3SQ<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><st1:country-region><st1:place><font size=2
face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>UK</span></font></st1:place></st1:country-region><span
style='mso-no-proof:yes'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;mso-no-proof:yes'>patrickp@essex.ac.uk<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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