Tuesday, October 03, 2006

Jeremy Paxman's Package

Dazed by the party conference coverage, I am only hearing about one word in ten. And - here's the weird thing - it's always the same word! Package! Everybody keeps saying 'package'! Party hacks appear with their pale, sticky, ham-like faces and they say to Jeremy Paxman, 'I think your package was inaccurate/accurate/utterly deranged'. What they are referring to is the previous film report. But nobody in the real world describes a film report as a 'package'. The only people who do are those who have been briefed by some supposedly media-savvy wonk. But the first thing anybody with real media-savvy would say is, 'Don't under any circumstances use the word 'package'.' Apart from anything else, 'your package' addressed to Paxo sounds distractingly obscene.

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  1. Funny nobody has commented on this. I put it down to fear.

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  2. Unmasked trout reporting: 'package-schmackage'. The politicos are just trying to appear media-savvy. Maybe they should try speaking their own language rather than someone else's? Its all indicative of how they are imprisoned in a tight solepsistic group that talks to itself (Humphries, Naughtie, Paxman, Sqwark, Esler.....)without realising that they are part of the problem. We need a Karl Kraus to write about this- not a bodyless trout!

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  3. Ah, salut, Beefheart. How peculiar that they should want to appear media-savvy - ie advertising themselves to Paxo and not their electorate which regards media savvy as the mark of Satan - I hope. All the non-Kraus type that do write about this have media degrees of course so we shall have to wait.

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