12 hours of BBC News can send you mad. If the news presenter remarks on how amazing it is that the fire is still going on in Hemel Hempstead I'm going to carve the fire triangle into his forehead. HELLO! Fuel + heat + oxygen = FIRE!
He is making my head hurt.
Honestly, I think that's one of the reasons why I prefer reading the news to watching it. Or, when I do watch it, why I prefer regular broadcasts to news channel reporting. The idiocy of real-time reporting is mind boggling. And it tends to lack both perspective and context.
ReplyDeletewhat about the hunky firemen and their red fire engine thingy... mmm
ReplyDeleteIf they had just broadcast live pictures of firemen I would have been soooo much more happy. But no. Only one I saw was in a suit, and I hate suits.
ReplyDeleteI too prefer reading my beloved Guardian to watching the news. News used to have such gravity on telly, when they would announce something, you'd pay attention. I'm becoming so blase now. The news just has no "immediacy" (sp?) despite now being almost immediate! After the ninth time some mentions there's been a bomb in Baghdad I start to forget that it's real people who've start and start to ponder why I even tuned in in the first place.
As always Natalie you've hit the nail on the head!