Someone sent me this earlier, it’s from yesterday’s guardian:

“Sky News, meanwhile, remains cripplingly self-effacing. ‘Of course, you the viewers can have your say on Saddam’s long-range missiles,’ claimed a presenter on Friday. ‘Just press the red button…'”

That sort of reminds me of something I saw the other day on one of the shoddy cable channels we get. It was a trailer for a documentary about the conflict in the Gulf in the early 90s. The trailer finished with the following, rather unfortunate, (or perhaps prophetic) comment:

“‘The Gulf War’. Starts Wednesday at 11…”