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[steevo]

Crisis? What crisis? I'm looking forward to catching out BBC newscasters and editors using that word. From tomorrow there is to be a corporation-wide ban on broadcast references to any “economic crisis” when discussing what our Government might prefer to call the “global financial challenge”. In place of “crisis” BBC staff have apparently been instructed to say “downturn” - the same word, incidentally, that Cabinet ministers are pointedly employing in place of “recession” or even “coming recession”. Friday is D (for Downturn) Day in corporation-speak.

conservativehome.blogs.com/centreright/2008/10/the-bbc-saves-u.html

[Teddy Bear]

I'm reminded by the words from some film scene where somebody is describing the difference between a serious occurence and a catastrophe. The difference is only in who the victim is. If it's another person it's a 'serious occurence', if it's yourself...you guessed it.

I've noticed that in this economical 'downturn' the media seem to have taken a lot of glee in wallowing in this upset. Barely a programme passes without at least half of it devoted to reminding us what a shitty time we're in for. Almost as if these reporters or journalists aer not subject to the same world, but just getting their rocks off rubbing salt in the wound. It's kind of a reverse of the previous observation. In this case it's a CRISIS when it happens to you.