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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on January 28, 2008, 01:20:06 PM

Title: Leftists Try to do Something, Hilarity Ensues
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on January 28, 2008, 01:20:06 PM

From the write-up:

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A few months ago, I posted a short extract from Vanessa Engle’s Lefties documentary series, which seemed to go down well, possibly due to the heady mix of affectation and farce. I watched the third episode again recently and, as it made me laugh and despair in more or less equal measure, I thought I’d share it in full. A Lot of Balls details the comically inept attempt in 1987 to launch a “radical” left wing tabloid, The News on Sunday. The project was, unsurprisingly, a disaster, but what’s interesting is why. Engle’s documentary teases out how staggering incompetence was a direct result of misplaced whimsy and ideological pretension. This is perhaps best illustrated by the scene in which, with the paper’s first edition about to go to press, most of the staff is out of the office on a deafness awareness day. 

http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2008/01/lefties-revisit.html

Much video goodness.