Re: The King of Morons

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:29:15 -0700 (PDT) Harry wrote :
But as well as this nonsense, which has been with us for a while, we
now have a trend which I reckon is only a year or three old: celeb
trivia taking over Radio 4 news. You know the kind of thing:
Australian starlet has breast cancer, not nice for her but it's OK
they caught it early and she's in no danger, we now go over live for
the next half hour to our celebrity breast cancer reporter in
Brisbane.

This is not that new. Back in the UK I used to watch World Business
Report on News24 at 2330 and on more than a few times no doubt
expensively put together programming put together by a group of
seriously intelligent people was binned in favour of half an hour of
idle speculation or talking heads. Two examples that stick in the mind
were the evening when the last Pope had failed to die and another when
a Canadian plane had gone off a runway, nothing known at that point.

--
Tony B, OzRat

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