This might seem a minor matter, a mere irrelevant footnote, in light of the wholesale tragic reality of what's going on in the world, but it snagged at my mind this morning when I watched the BBC 12 o'clock news bulletin. Under sports news they gave the results of the US basketball league , with comments about who had won and who had missed out, followed by an interview with a coach. Then came a story about US ice hockey, with teddy bears being thrown onto the rink.
I mean, WTF is the BBC playing at, treating US sport(s) as worthy of a mention on prime-time news? I know we're the 51st state but do they really have to rub our noses in it? So what's the agenda? Is the plan to assimilate us even deeper into the US empire with trivia such as sports results, as if we gave a f***? No doubt tomorrow they'll be giving us the weather conditions just outside Detroit and warning of traffic hold-ups in downtown Miami. Just what I pay my licence fee for.
I have become aware of this over the past year or so too.As more and more UK sports have become pay for view BBC gives us more US circus sports and womens football etc.
This might seem a minor matter, a mere irrelevant footnote, in light of the wholesale tragic reality of what's going on in the world, but it snagged at my mind this morning when I watched the BBC 12 o'clock news bulletin. Under sports news they gave the results of the US basketball league , with comments about who had won and who had missed out, followed by an interview with a coach. Then came a story about US ice hockey, with teddy bears being thrown onto the rink.
From my perspective this 'infusion' of USA sports has been going on for years. It has been ramped up over the last year or so, possibly since Ukrainian 'war/crisis'.
The woke think with respect to women football in running in a similar, but nevertheless same trajectory (I am not against sports by women being ignored, it's just different to what has happened before, is all). An observation about the civilizational thingie.
And no, this 'infusion' will fail, 'cause we don't give a f*ck (as you say). Go for it ijits/beeb, you cannot be more irrelevant than at the present with your double plus news from the Big Brother.