There is no news in London!

Is there no news on this godforsaken island that doesn’t involve football (soccer), who's dating whom, or that trailer park tart from big brother? My god! Can we please have some news content in our news casts? It has been impossible for the last few days to turn on a news cast (including the Prime Minister's Questions on the Parliamentary coverage) without hearing about Jade Goody!

I was irate when watching the news this morning to see the announcer on BBC deride someone who made a comment about there being too much coverage of Big Brother. The viewer had made the comment that there was too much made of the row over the racist comments made on the "reality" show. The viewer asked why there was so much coverage. The announcer said: "Well, you're talking about it!"

It incenses me that the announcer would equate spending hours a day repeating the clip of this stupid wench going off on a young cultured woman and spewing venomous epithets at her. I won't waste column time in this repeating the stories of the incident, (anyone interested in sinking to the lowest possible entertainment value can find coverage of the incident all over the internet, which sometimes is known to pander to semi-literate idiots) suffice it to say that the incident was not terribly noteworthy. It did not merit the coverage it got.

The viewer who asked that the news be more news-worthy, was merely pointing-out that there were other, more important things that the station could be giving coverage to instead of wasting the air-time on a stupid, racist wench insulting a person who must have know what she was in for when she signed-up for the show. The viewer simply asked what was newsworthy of the incident. Perhaps mention once would have been enough, but it is unlikely that this was even warranted. The terse and snide response that they were talking about it because the viewer was talking about it was beyond the pall.

Oh well, I guess there can be stupid, pompous people in every profession.

I hope that wherever you are today, you do not come up against or worse yet propagate this kind of stupidity!

Don Bergquist - 20 January 2007 - Thames Ditton, Surrey, UK