Please indulge me..
This seems to good an opportunity not to transplant a slighty modified version
of my final post in the now closed thread [yes.. that one..]

I think it's more relevant here, now...
and yes I couldn't be bothered editing out the crap whimsical paragraph...



Last night I fell asleep during a long drama documentary about Daniel Boone...
[hooray for buffer memory and rewind...!!!]

Interestingly this documentary seemed almost as fictionalised as if it had been a Hollywood action movie,
compared to the wiki history for this man.
I don't know why they bother making these productions.
Either make an accurate documentary,
or just give us a proper scant regard for history based on real 'a true story' pop corn action movie.
These expensively stage hybrid re-enactment drama-docs just over condense, simplify, and fictionalise far too much.
I feel cheated.

Which brings me on to the point of real time news reporting of current international conflicts and wars;
and being able to trust what is depicted on screen and in print.

How would World War 2 have progressed if 24/7 news channels and internet social media had existed back then.
With every event being covered and commented on in fine detail in up to the minute real time..
with panels of journalists and experts arguing opinions on what is really happening and who is to blame...

How much different might received history be now,
how altered would classic World war 2 movie accounts of dramatic heroic events have to be...?????

Now, 21st century.. how much longer before viewers are invited to to phone in to select winners and losers,
who gets killed in Syria and who survives onto the next round...????

Ok let's spin the wheel of death - odd numbers Asshat & Russia did it,
even numbers it was staged by activists..
bonus number and we will implicate CIA / MI6...

Ffs.. If we can't trust modern media and social networks...???

So finally.. I don't know what's really real or not just from watching BBC news reports,
and so don't think most ordinary folks should make arrogant dogmatic pronouncments based on such uncertainty...
The only reasonable position should be healthy scepticism in public discourse,
even if we have made our own minds up based on informed judgement and opinion / prejudice in private...???

Respect expert opinions, but do not automatically trust them entirely ...