Main Stories?

Many things in the media annoy me, usually the slanted opinions, lying headlines and obsession with empty people.  This is one example.   A CEO, from the ESA, who nobody had heard off, from a company few people knew existed, was caught at some pop concert hugging a female no-one knew. 

This became front page news for days, why?

Who is he, who is she, who cares?

The people who indulged this news item will have no idea what his company does, no idea who he is, yet they will have followed the story for days, until another scandal involving people they do not know arises.  

As it is, the company and he have parted, he is not upholding their values, apparently.  What those values are, bad publicity I think the one they mean, and with me having no intention to search out the company and find out what they do and who he is, and what their values may be, all leads me to wonder why I am wasting time on this.

Well, this follows the other scandal, 'Masterchef.'

Now this is not a programme I would watch.  No cooking programme is worth watching these days, they are all soap operas, concerned with the presenters, not the cooking.  There again, there are few programmes I would ever watch these days, bar the football.  

Here complaints re someone's behaviour was ignored for years by the BBC, until it got into the media.  Now he has gone, we await the next one.  He too, and it will be a he, will be some sort of sex pest, pervert, deviant, or loud mouth, bullying the staff and getting paid far too much money, and will feel untouchable, unlike the women around him.  

The BBC is indeed full of perverts, and most get long well enough for the most part, however, this type of thing reveals the depth of corruption, bad management at all levels, and also the publics desire to know more about the meaningless empty lives of TV celebrities.  Something I myself do not care for.  They are all broken people, all desperate for attention, and few are worth knowing.

Who will be next to turn attention away from slaughter in various parts of the world, the billionaires running the Labour Party, now seeking to increase the pension age (IDS wishes to increase this to 75), and many other serious subjects pushed to the small places in the media by stories such as this.

It was ever thus.