Many people are shockingly ignorant of the world beyond their own community. However mention the name Winston Churchill (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill) to most Americans and they will know who you are talking about. By the same token, mention the name Walt Disney (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney) to most Britons and they will know who you are talking about. Many Britons (with young children) travel to Orlando, Florida to visit Disney World (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_World) for obvious reasons. By the same token, many Americans visit London to see such iconic places as Buckingham Palace (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckingham_Palace), the Palace of Westminster (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palace_of_Westminster) and the Tower of London (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_London).
Of course by visiting these locations these tourists do not get to see much of what lies beyond in America or Britain. America (USA) is a vast diverse nation and Britain although not vast is very diverse. Many Britons will tell many Americans that seeing “London, England” does not give a real picture of what England is.
The high speed broadband internet and in particular “YouTube” have transformed mass media and have posed an existential challenge to the major terrestrial broadcasters like the BBC. In particular the BBC has been hit. The “hit” has not been confined to drama and entertainment for it still takes considerable resources to make a drama of an acceptable quality.
The most significant “hit” has been to news, documentaries and “outside broadcasts” in particular. You see, when I was born (1955) the BBC did have an outside broadcast capability. It was technically very complex and expensive and way beyond the ability and capability of a private individual to replicate.
Today (2023) however that has changed fundamentally. It is now possible for a reasonably affluent private individual to purchase camera, editing and broadcasting (uploading to YouTube) equipment and to produce content at HD (1080) for anyone with a broadband internet connection to view. In particular the so called “smart TVs” (or which I own one [55 inch screen size]) can view this content on the TV.
I have spent a good 90 minutes doing just that and the content (of one video) is the same broadcast quality as that produced by the BBC. The other is less so due to the vibration from the road of the producer’s SUV. It is still however watchable.
What this means is this: The ordinary broadband capable TV owner has the ability to view content that the BBC just don’t produce. I enclose two links to two content producers whose output shows in stark detail some of the devastation of the economic decline of certain parts of the USA.
Given how fond the BBC journalists and presenters are of travelling to the USA (on the licence payer’s expense) you might ask: Why does not the BBC produce such content?
The answer is that much of the economic devastation wrought has been inflicted by the closure of steel mills and the coal mines which powered them – both in terms of coking coal for the blast furnaces and the electrical power required.
China and India now produce moist of the steel used in the world and well we all know what the mainstream politicians in America and Britain think about coal!
These idiots are of the opinion that steel can be made using the electricity provided by wind turbines and that coking coal can be replaced by “green hydrogen” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_hydrogen).
Australia’s Prime Minister AnthonyAlbanese (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Albanese) when he was the opposition leader got into hot water with the “climate change” zealots when he stated that coking coal would be required for steel making for the foreseeable future!
Rather than take the trouble of explaining why this is nonsense, I will allow the “climate change” zealots to do this for me as they have done a most excellent job (https://theconversation.com/albanese-says-we-cant-replace-steelmaking-coal-but-we-already-have-green-alternatives-126599)!
Herewith below the website with videos showing the consequences of the decline of the USA’s coal industry:
GOTO: https://www.youtube.com/@PeterSantenello/
Herewith below the website with videos showing the consequences of the decline of the USA’s steel industry: