Slow news day

11/28/2011

 
The media is continually under pressure to report on exciting stories which are going to sell newspapers. Unfortunately there are sometimes  ‘slow news days” and you get the feeling that the journalist are just desperate to fill up their columns. For example:

Wayne and Coleen Rooney’s car takes a beating after trip to safari park!

Is this news? Most people with young children will at some point take them to a Safari park for a day out. Since Safari parks became quite common in the early 70s, visitors have been aware that your Audi Q7 essex car is probably going to get damaged. Your even more at risk if you go through the money enclosure. Of course as this was Wayne and Coleen the newspapers found it necessary to report on it. The reported actually stated that the primates were particularly paying attention to the Rooney’s car. Perhaps they wanted an autograph!

Are any articles about Amy Childs really news? Most people don’t even know who she. is Unfortunately it looks more and more likely that she is going to be gracing the front pages of newspapers for some time to come. For those not in the know, Amy Childs was formerly in the reality soap, “The Only Way Is Essex”! This weeks “hot” headlines were along the lines of “Amy Childs goes rock chick”. Who cares? Furthermore it is now Winter and it looks like she is wearing less than in the Summer.

I enjoy popular culture but I think it is time that the newspapers started to take themselves more seriously otherwise this world will find itself in more trouble than it is already. Have you ever watched the film “Idiocracy”?