The News

I genuinely can’t remember any time in my life when the news has been so relentlessly depressing. You have, perhaps, the worst leader of any major country in my lifetime. I mean, there have been some bad ones and some awful ones, but he breaks new ground every day. He’s actually turned me away from the entire population of his country, because they either voted for him or didn’t try hard enough to stop him.

You see, this is the issue. I go into ‘rant mode’ when I watch the news. If it isn’t the Mango Moron, it’s the fact that there is barely a decent human being with money or power on the planet. It’s a planet that’s dying because the leaders of so many countries and the people within those countries want it to. They don’t care about catastrophic climate change as long as they can sit in front of their TV and get everything delivered. Yes, I am ranting again!

Looking at the world as a whole I have never been so negative about it’s present or future and that is saying something. I would love for the news to be banned for a month and for those people who populate and poison my screen to be denied the oxygen of publicity. If anyone remembers the derivation of that phrase you will get an idea of who I equate pretty much every modern politician to. If not, pop the phrase into the search bar.

So, there you have it. I need a break from the news, and while I have you here I will tell you my own theory about the news. When we went from 3 news bulletins a day to 24 hour news was when everything in the world started to get worse because the nature of 24 hour news requires it. Instead of real news we got speculation, talking heads and barely disguised hatred for anything and everything filling up the day. If anyone had an extreme view they were rushed onto screen at the expense of people who were thoughtful, intelligent and moderate. Once that happened the extremists gathered pace and the rest is history.