World gone mad?

This is the homepage of the BBC News website as I sit here. In a world of earthquakes, economic ruin and the unspeakable horrors that man inflicts on his fellow man two of the top three news stories on the BBC are entertainment led.

Now don’t get me wrong, Brand and Ross did step over a line. They are fantastic entertainers and I am going to miss my Jonathan Ross podcast this week but is this really the most important story in the UK right now? Really? Or is it something that the Daily Mail readers can all agree is an outrage and vent their anger on? After all when the initial radio show was broadcast it only received two complaints. Two! Now, thanks to the moral contagion that the press has released we have over 24,000 complaints?

And also the news that David Tennent has left Doctor Who. I’m sad to see him go, I geek out on Doctor Who. But the third most important story in the country? Reallllly?

I know, I’m putting too many question marks in here.

Is this trivia being pushed higher in our agendas because we’ve had such doom and gloom in the recent past? Have we reached the breaking point of bad news that we want to dive into some non-news that distracts from matter that we know will hugely affect us but yet we have no way of controlling?

Anyway. There was an earthquake in Pakistan today. Hundreds died. That has to matter more than celebrities behaving badly and actors wanting a new job. It just has to.

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Thursday, October 30th, 2008 People, Thoughts

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