"Doctor Who's long-awaited return is a ratings success for the BBC, attracting up to 10.5 million viewers." [BBC]

The first version of the BBC's report read "was a ratings success". Good use of active language...

7:07:14 PM    

"A reliable flow of disposable income does not automatically translate into security or well-being. Look around your average British small town. By day, you see high streets denuded of character as the big retailers dominate and, at night, people out on benders staggering from pub to pub. This is not part of an audition for Grumpy Old Men. This is what people, who resent being valued only as consuming objects, told me." [The Observer]

I am not a person.I am a consumer unit. I am targeted and sold to. Information about me can be extracted without me knowing and sold to others. I am a consumer, a customer, a client, a 'seat', a passenger. I am a revenue stream, a cash resource, a taxable commodity. I am a pair of eyeballs to passively receive advertising propaganda - soma for the masses. I am a taxable unit. I am a class. I am part of a socio-economic grouping. I can be counted, logged, tagged, observed, herded, conformed, marshalled. Layers of bureaucracy, officials, and politicians are supported by me but don't hear me. I am a citizen without a country.

2:16:53 PM