On Jul 5, 6:10 pm, John Hall wrote:
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Fred writes:
I've noticed that whenever I've been to the States, their weather forecasts
often seem to be a lot more informative than the usual stuff that we're fed
with over here, such as it's going to be windy, wet and warm. Presumably the
powers that be must think that the great British public aren't intelligent
enough to be able to take in any more than basic wind speed, rainfall and
temperature figures.

Which is strange, when America is supposed to be the home of dumbing
down. If the US TV networks believe that their viewers can cope, why
does the BBC think differently?

I got a couple of shots over the bow from representatives of Andrew
Lane. I'd love to know what sort of CV he is publishing. I'd like to
know how many more in that house of ill repute put the knife into
decent reporting not just the weather bureau there.

IIGC it was all going downhill rather rapidly in the last days of good
king Giles.

As for the USAnians; catastrophically, they stopped dumbing down years
ago, around about the time of Kennedy and Johnson, maybe.

Ever since, they seem to have been dumbing up.