Blog: Mine For Life

I'd like to comment on a couple of faintly disturbing situations that recently occurred on American TV, which has led me to want to say something about being British at the same time as being an engaged citizen of the USA. Firstly, let me talk about the "tweens" show iCarly, which my six year old daughter loves and watches every day on Nickelodeon. A recent episode (actually the highest rated TV show last week) centered around a singing competition as a way of putting American Idol runner-up David Archuleta on a TV screen. The premise this [...]