Came across this video on YouTube – don’t know why it is titled “Banned Advert” because the description says it wasn’t. It’s very powerful…well done SABC 1 (ever think you’d hear me say that???)
OK so this headline appeared in last week’s Sunday Times:
This is like publishing a headline which shouts: “EXCLUSIVE: McDonalds sells hamburgers!”. Where’s the news here??? Just saying.
Today’s Argus reported that Nhlanhla Nene, parliament’s Finance Committee Chairperson who is now famous the world over for his chair collapsing on live TV (see my blog entry below if you’re the only person on the planet who hasn’t seen it) has had a massive sense of humour failure. He’s taking legal advice on how to restore what he says is his damaged reputation.
I’m sorry???? He fell off a chair. It happens. No-one is saying he fell off it through any fault of his own. There is no suggestion anywhere that he was drunk; he’s certainly no Kate Moss but he doesn’t look as if he needs reinforced chairs; and I’m sure that no-one deliberately sabotaged the chair. It just broke. It has happened to most of us at one time or another. It was just unfortunate that it happened on live TV.
The funniest part of the article is where the SABC says it isn’t sure how the video clip began circulating outside of the company. Let me see….national broadcaster doesn’t understand how anyone could have seen what they broadcast? Am I missing something here, or are they?
By now I think everyone has seen this, but it is worth re-playing (mostly because I want to test embedding YouTube clips into posts on my shiny new Blog….)
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