AITVR3&4: SexEutube & The Targuist Sniper
by Charlie Tims
The EU has its own Youtube Channel - Eutube (see what they did there?). It blurs the line between propaganda, public information and whimsical provocations to new types of public debate - we like it for the later. Some of their videos are alarmingly good - and if you check out (parts of) the comment stream you can see them starting the kind of debate about living in Europe and shared European values the EU has failed to achieve in a thousand focus groups and forums.
British Conservative MEP Chris Heaton-Harris reacted to this when it was released by saying "They do have an image problem but I think cobbling together 44 seconds of soft porn on the internet is not a brilliant way of solving it." Funny, but wrong.
And as I forgot to post a video yesterday - here's some more back dated countdown.
This is The Targuist Sniper, an anonymous young Moroccan man, who in November 2007 hid on a hill in Morocco's northern cannabis growing region and filmed traffic police taking bribes from van drivers. He has become a hero to a nation of people tired of having to pay back-handers to civil servants and public officials and has inspired other Moroccans to video bribe takers.