How very, very sad.
As I usually do at work on a Saturday morning I skim read the paper, as there is nothing really better to do. The downside is the paper, the Daily Mail. Oh dear.
Usually the stories are ok and I can kind of read in the morning but the front page said it all today. The main headline was some such about the high-street stores having to slash prices in manic 1 or 2 day sales to compete with the Internet stores.
Which seems ok but it was the second headline that got me. Kate Middleton apparently said (according to lip reading experts) that “Prince William looked sexy” in his passing-out uniform yesterday. How ridiculous is that. It isn’t news it just isn’t. There’s woman being murdered in Suffolk and yet some comment that is probably said a hundred thousand times a day makes the front page of a national newspaper. It has to be said I do use the word newspaper somewhat reluctantly, if anyone can think of a better name then comment it.
Maybe it’s just me but it seems crazy and bizarre that something so serious could be dropped (I think the story is eventually mentioned by the eighth page or so) in the place of a throwaway comment.
Admittedly it seems a little weird to me that consumerism gets the front-page over (I guess would be called) humanism.
What a strange day we live in.
Dan
:P
17th December 2006
12:20 pm
there is nothing wrong with the daily mail!, iv grown up on it and im fine!!!
the reason theyl put that on along with a headline is to attract more sections of the market!
thanku 4 my presents