No Rock And Roll Fun

DO YOU BEEE-LIEVE IN NEWS AFTER HUTTON?: It's worth noting in the transcripts of the Cher appearance on C-Span this piece:

C-Span Moderator: What's your favorite news source outside the US?

Caller [Cher, for it is she]: Well theres a source that I really like inside the US that gives you special documentaries called WORLDLINK but I think my favorite source outside the US is BBC because they are our allies but you still get...on the nightly news you get...you know, much more coverage and I think much more honest coverage...I dont know, I guess they're not...well...they're independent so they're not owned by any of the major corporations that are... you know, have vested interest in this war.

Can anyone else in the world think of a single subject that both Cher and Norman Tebbit might find common ground on?

It's interesting how little coverage in the wider media there was of Cher's appearance on C-Span. She'd tried to remain anonymous (like those callers to Frasier's show) but her identity suddenly occured to the presenter - it was that damn vocoder which gave her away. She was raising the point that the US had been shipping its injured and dead back from Iraq without any fanfare at all ("none of the received a hero's welcome/none of them/none of them", as it were) but oddly enough, none of the networks seemed to have the stomach for reporting her intervention. Which I guess kind of proved her point.