Give a damn?

The BBC sums up why so many of us prefer blogs to the old meeja. Its lead story is:

Blair under fire....

For what? For this? Or this? Or this? Oh no. His crimes against liberty and rationality are matters for the blogosphere. Political reporters are too grand to bother about anything as mundane as policy. No. It's this:

....over exit plans.

Yup. It's the tired same old same old.
The Beeb compound their obsession with fatuity with this Q&A on the Blair-Brown handover. It doesn't ask the only important Q; why  should anyone give a toss about the careers of two middle-aged mediocrities?
The cliche here is that the MSM reduces politics to soap opera. This is a vicious insult to the world's best TV programme. It contains characters of depth, subtlety and variety with whom we can sympathize and empathize.

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[james higham]

To show you how long ago I watched it, I ask, 'How are Elsie Tanner and Ena Sharples going?'