Snow – the unknown and dangerous thing. That’s at least the impression one could get when one spend the winter in the United Kingdom, especially between Christmas and New Year’s Day. During that time it snowed more than one day – apparently a very rare and totally terrifying event. This impression was at least suggested by the media reports about The Big Freeze. Airports closed down and even the Eurostar was blocked by condensed watter – once again the continent was isolated. At the same time road salt reserves ran short. In short media hallucinated the soon doom of the United Kingdom, because suddenly it snowed as much as it does every winter in Sweden or even Scotland. Thankfully there is Charlie Brooker and its TV programme Newswipe which shows the absurdity of this whole media panic:
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