Death of a President

it coming on tonight , I never caught it on More 4....

Nice for you!


Anyone else find it strange that since these digital channels have become available to the majority of viewers that their flagship programming appears on their terrestrial parent alot quicker - usually within a week or two as opposed to the previous six month delay?

I was going to watch it on More4 the other day but I've heard it was pretty poor. If anyone has watched it, feel free to prove me wrong.

The programme entirely failed to look at what might happen politically in the aftermath of such an event and concentrated on the whodunnit aspect. I got bored by an hour in and was only half paying attention to the rest.

I think it adressed it pretty well - I think that that is exactly what would happen. The government of the U.S.A. would - in my opinion - sensationalise (I think that is the right word) the whole affair, and concentrate (at least in their public-dealings with the incident) on the 'whodunnit'. I think the way that the producers realised that as soon as an interviewee labelled the accused part of Al-Quaeda (sp.?), that the Jury were always going to find him guilty is very life-like - the whole "[generic quote (not taken from a particular person)] The detainees at Guantaminour Bay(sp. - awful attempt at it :s!) are terrorists, so don't deserve the rights of other prisoners." attitude.



I think that is a very good prediction as to what would happen if P. Bush were to be assassinated. The media would get too obsessed with 'whodunnit', and would label people so much that no Jury would have the capacity to be able to find an impartial decision - and the U.S. public (in general*) would, even with hind-knowledge that the convicted was innocent, then have an 'image' of the man as at least flirting with terrorism.

It was definately thought-provoking to me.



*I don't like stereotyping a large group, I'm just refering to 'in general'/on the whole/the majority &c.