There is almost certainly nothing new about the salacious,
carrion-seeking tendency of the media in the UK, as they pursue gobbets of extreme
feeling, of the how upset were you when the tiger
ate your husband ? variety, as a substitute for actual news. What is
relatively new is the endless repetition, throughout the day and even, for
people with particularly short concentration spans, within each bulletin. When
the story is actually about the impact of media intrusion into private matters,
such as News International’s phone hacking (ref), the outcome can escalate beyond
the ironic into the surreal, but not in a good way.
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