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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2011-12-24 11:00 am
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[identity profile] autopope.livejournal.com 2011-12-24 09:07 pm (UTC)(link)
That's the main news channels every night, live from Kabul or Baghdad.

[identity profile] octopoid-horror.livejournal.com 2011-12-24 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
They seem to shy away from showing actual combat but rather drool over that aftermath a lot of the time.

Until we're watching cage fights between condemned criminals on nanotech optical HUDs, it won't feel like the future.
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[personal profile] chess 2011-12-25 09:18 am (UTC)(link)
The coverage of Libya seemed to be less shy, there were definitely actual launches of those shoulder-mounted rockets and stuff blowing up on screen on the BBC; and the coverage of the protests is all about the police violence, although I'm not sure how much that gets through to the mainstream media because I've been avoiding its coverage thereof to keep my anger levels down :).