Read a few pages in the Saturday paper this morning over my cup of tea.
Convinced me more than ever how uninteresting and generally shit the media in Britain has become. It's not the news, or the sport, or the TV etc that I find uninteresting, it is the way these things are presented.
The following (short) rant is a rare example of social commentary on this ere blog.
For instance. Accompanying a 'story' about Wayne Rooney's wedding/family etc (how is that of any relevance anyway...) is a small picture of his fiancee's friend at a party flashing her boobs at the camera. The picture is 'licensed' from Hello, and has a couple of logos strategically placed covering her nipples.
The caption describes her etc etc, and suggests ' a bit of help from us to protect her modesty.' One, its not help from the paper, its an integral part of the Hello license (otherwise it would say the newspapers name or be a black square) Two, its not to 'protect her modesty' - its a legal condition of the paper and the whole topless woman thing. Three, why would a girl who is happy to flash her tits to Hello magazine photographs at a public bar need her 'modesty' protecting anyway...
Second story. Another young girl has gone missing in the Midlands, a nine year old called Shannon something.
Reading behind the headlines is always so much more interesting. There is a last known photo of her shown leaving a leisure centre after a swimming lesson with school, wearing her 'distinctive' red furry Bratz boots.
At school???
She was last seen by her mates walking home after the coach dropped her off at school.
Walking home alone??? She's nine years old.
England is going to the Dogs Kai Motte
2008-02-25 @ 01:01