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I get annoyed sometimes by the endless analysis and coverage that modern news seems to add to any event.
Generally, all I want to know about stuff in the news is 'what has happened, why has it happened, how does it affect me?' and even the most verbose news report can generally get that out of the way in less than a short paragraph.
So: Royal wedding: it happened, no one died, it had to happen so there could be more Royal babies, they looked good, I got a free holiday.
Doesn't need hours of coverage....
Same for the recent Osama killing. I had to plough through many many pages of today's Metro (yes, I know, it's a guilty secret, I read the Metro on the way to work... but I can give it up anytime I like...) before I came to anything that was not in any way related to the Bin Laden killing. Most of it was utter fluff that added nothing to my understanding of the event any more than the cover article. I would have preferred to have heard more about some other parts of the world like Libya or Syria (which there were some later articles on) before it got to the really pointless Celebrity gossip pages (which I usually skip through on the way to Nemi and the really entertainingly Daily Mailesque letters page).
Though today I was amused by an article describing how Blue (a boyband who were made famous in Love Actually by Bill Nighy) were trying to 'win the Gay Eurovision vote'. This apparently seemed to involve one of them half naked (good start there...) kissing Sheriden Smith, a woman... I fail to see how this would achieve the aforementioned 'winning the gay vote' (apart from the aforementioned half naked man... but surely gay men are not that shallow? :) )
Generally, all I want to know about stuff in the news is 'what has happened, why has it happened, how does it affect me?' and even the most verbose news report can generally get that out of the way in less than a short paragraph.
So: Royal wedding: it happened, no one died, it had to happen so there could be more Royal babies, they looked good, I got a free holiday.
Doesn't need hours of coverage....
Same for the recent Osama killing. I had to plough through many many pages of today's Metro (yes, I know, it's a guilty secret, I read the Metro on the way to work... but I can give it up anytime I like...) before I came to anything that was not in any way related to the Bin Laden killing. Most of it was utter fluff that added nothing to my understanding of the event any more than the cover article. I would have preferred to have heard more about some other parts of the world like Libya or Syria (which there were some later articles on) before it got to the really pointless Celebrity gossip pages (which I usually skip through on the way to Nemi and the really entertainingly Daily Mailesque letters page).
Though today I was amused by an article describing how Blue (a boyband who were made famous in Love Actually by Bill Nighy) were trying to 'win the Gay Eurovision vote'. This apparently seemed to involve one of them half naked (good start there...) kissing Sheriden Smith, a woman... I fail to see how this would achieve the aforementioned 'winning the gay vote' (apart from the aforementioned half naked man... but surely gay men are not that shallow? :) )
