How Shit Is Your News?

One positive note from the death of Princess Diana was the possibility that hours of precious tv time would no longer be taken up analysing her hair, shoes or quantifiable levels of niceness. Sadly it seems this is not the case as the recent endless coverage of “What to do about the Diana fountain memorial?” testify.

Let's run over the guts of this breaking news story in detail:

1. Somebody made a fountain water-way-thing-memorial to her in a park in London
2. Some kid fell over
3. It’s been closed until they figure out how to stop people going in it, and, I dunno, falling over?

The story is so mind-numbing it’s unbelievable. Only worse story currently doing the rounds is the Sven bonking story which Channel 5 opened their news with last night.

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The Sven story is a tragedy. First the Turnip was rubbish, then Glenda was bonkers, then Kevin came in and admitted 'he didnt know what he was doing'. A sad tale indeed.

left by Jack on 10 August 2004