What’s the problem with the modern world?\u00a0 The fact that there is so much information out there available to everyone, idiots and all.\u00a0 I’d like to write this in a constructive and measured manner, but since this is a ‘blog’, you are allowed to spout uneducated and appallingly ‘investigated’ gob tripe around the Internet, spreading your ignorant word-seed like a particularly bitey, flea infested black plague rat in London town.\u00a0 That, therefore, is how I will write, with a knowing ‘wink’ acknowledging the fact i am expressing an extreme view.<\/p>\n
I don’t have any examples, merely internal anecdotes, thoughts and woolly memories on stories announced and regurgitated by individuals claiming to be fact.\u00a0 What they are doing however is not ejaculating ‘fact’, but parroting opinion.\u00a0 Take 5 live for example, a plethora of shouty folk ‘banging on’ about some local, one off injustice that then fuels the fire for a change in the law of the land.\u00a0 One swallow does not a summer make, and one paedophile does not a child abuse epidemic make.<\/p>\n
Television and the regular press are in it for the ‘headline’, the ‘soundbite’, the story of the moment.\u00a0 Even the BBC does it. Gone are the days of proper investigative journalism and in come the formulaic headline mongers, prioritising the hot topic of the day and usually tenuously linking with another in order to create ‘Breaking News’.\u00a0 Breaking FUCKING news.<\/p>\n
It must just be age on my part but I can barely watch a news program that doesn’t have a celebrity news item in the headlines (again, BBC included) or doesn’t involve a story involving a child.\u00a0 Emotive, shallow, inconsequential and formulaic news drivel.\u00a0 News shouldn’t be about the headline, it should be about it’s importance.\u00a0 It SHOULD be boring.<\/p>\n
Huw?\u00a0 Stop banging on about who is favourite in the X Factor, stop Welshing on about who dances bestest of all on Strictly.\u00a0 Most of all George Alagiah, I don’t care that Ashely Cole has been caught boinking a Geordie, attention seeking hair dresser.\u00a0 Fuck them all and fuck you for selling yourself out to the lowest denominator.<\/p>\n
News?\u00a0 Take a couple of weeks off, take a long hard look at yourself and come back when you’ve got your act together.<\/p>\n
BREAKING NEWS – Shit happens!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What’s the problem with the modern world?\u00a0 The fact that there is so much information out there available to everyone, idiots and all.\u00a0 I’d like to write this in a constructive and measured manner, but since this is a ‘blog’, … Continue reading