The Travel Diva

The way of the world's media

I find the media's Prophets of Doom so tiresome. BBCs Channel 4 news, with John 'tasteless ties' Snow as the anchor, angers me - especially when he flashes a satisfied snarl at the viewing audience. Though whether the grimace indicates that he's happy the world's falling apart or merely that he's pleased to convey disappointing news, I couldn't say.

But it seems that it's not only the BBC doing this. Its the printed media too - all around the developed world!

All the political correctness bullshit - it's no different to the school yard bully. They started the war on speed by going after lunatics who drive around at 130 mph and ended up nailing little old ladies doing 31mph. They go after people who hunt foxes but soon your dog will be prosecuted for killing a mouse. They put health warnings on cigarettes and now you can’t even light up in a pub. And for the social worker's there is no spirit of law, only the letter.

A great many earnest young men have been cropping up on BBC news wearing ‘I told you so’ expressions and explaining that we must stop driving cars and eating strawberries out of season. They say that man-made global warming is driving the weather nuts and that if we don't radically change our ways, everyone on earth will be boiled. Then a self proclaimed expert pops up saying that mans total contribution to global carbon dioxide emissions is just 3%, which might be enough to kill the world.

Or it might not. Nobody knows. But it seems rather silly to spend billions developing cauliflower powered cars when they might not make any difference and half the world is starving.

I try not to read the newspapers any more as all they report on is bad news. The media prefers to dismiss all the good in the world and focus on the one bad element. I fear the lunatics have taken over the asylum. The press sees terror and pain in just about every aspect of our lives today. Cornflakes will kill you unless an immigrant from Albania gets you first. Farmed salmon will rot your children’s eyes; genetically modified wheat will invade your garden and eat your pets; and God help those that don’t maintain an efficient oral hygiene programme because they’ll have killer mushrooms growing out of their gums.

Every single day there is a small piece in the papers that announced the introduction of a law banning something which you thought was harmless. I've had enough!

I want to live in a society that understands respect, where passers-by will intervene and not avert their gaze when an old lady is attacked by yobs, where corporal punishment exists, compulsory military service, where children call their elders Aunt and Uncle so-and-so.

Maybe I'm asking too much.

Labels: BBC Channel 4, Belgian driving laws, fox hunting, global warming, intervention, John Snow, lunatics, madmen, media, newspapers, political correctness, smokers, social workers, society

posted by Cindy-Lou Dale @ Tuesday, October 07, 2008