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Aussie Life

Aussie Life & Language

14 November 2020

9:00 AM

14 November 2020

9:00 AM

Simon Collins

A British newspaper once ran a TV ad extolling the virtues of journalistic objectivity. ‘Point of view’, which you can still find on YouTube, is a sequence of three pieces of grainy street footage, all showing the same event, but each shot from a different CCTV. The first shows something with which 1980’s UK audiences would have been depressingly familiar; a shaven-headed, bovver-booted youth sprinting through a town centre (full disclosure; it’s me).

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