As BBC director of England Peter Salmon pointed out recently while talking about the forthcoming Salford Sitcom Showcase, finding a hit sitcom is like "panning for gold".
And as Congo crumbles, it grows harder to plunder: operations at Ituri's vast Kilomoto gold mine, for example, have virtually ceased since local peasants started digging up its airstrip and panning the dirt for ore.The UN is scratching its head for a solution.
They are panning for nuggets of gold that might have been flushed down from the nearby mountains.
A helicopter, panning away, would show the whole landscape empty, not a band in sight!
And a television camera in the corner calmly took in all this anguish, panning from face to stricken face until ending up on the grim expression of Jerry Blaine, the doctor accused of misdiagnosing LaMonica's condition and so causing her death .I ask you, can such a thing be right?
Such "broken links" are on the rise as old websites are abandoned or moved to different computers.Worse than this by far is the volume of junk retrieved when panning for gold with one of the Web's search engines.
True or not, things are not panning out that way.
Panning to a shot of an Argentine flag being skewered into the ground, men surveying an oil field, and an extraneous galloping horse, it continues: "But feelings come from deepest parts of us…and now his energy inspires us once again.
