How depressing. I've certainly got the impression from several sources that corporations and big business have more power in America, than here. One thing that really brought this home to me was when Buffy the Vampire Slayer was forced to drop a storyline featuring a burger outlet, because the fast food industry threatened to withdraw their advertising, and that was something that couldn't be allowed to happen. I can't see that happening here.

Though perhaps it's getting that way. We still have two non-commercial mainsteam TV channels, and they used to show all sorts of creative things, aimed at minority interests. They've now got just as obsessed with ratings as the commerical channels. We have a diet of bland, dumbed-down stuff created according to someone's pre-conceived idea of "what will sell." No risks are taken.

I seem to have moved away from books to television. Oh well...