Old News
I buy a newspaper about once a week. Other than that, I'm pretty cut off from the world. Last year it took me three months to find out that Ronnie Barker had died. I'm pretty sure that their has been many other things that have happened and gone un-noticed by me. I don't watch the news on TV just because I'm not at the TV around the time that it's on.
So can you imagine the looks on peoples faces around me when I read the Daily Express this morning at the station on my way back to university? Now I bet you're thinking 'all that information about the world today must have flooded his stuck-in-a-university-timewarp brain of his and his face exploded'. Well you'd be wrong. Nothing that interesting happened. C'mon people, this is real life, not some episode of the X-files. Get real.
What actuall happened was that I did a double take on the paper. That's right, I looked at it, looked up to see a person with bright pink spikey hair and then my brain decided that the newspaper headline was more surprising than the freak of nature in front of me (no offence to a people with spikey pink hair, but I think it works better on people who are in their 20's and not those going through a midlife crisis, that's all).
Apparently, (the Daily Express can FINALLY reveal) there might be a conspiracy surrounding Diana's death 9 years ago. That's right might be a conspiracy. Now, that might be interesting news, when they first reported it, 9 years ago. Get a new story Express, please. Leave the poor woman to rest in peace. Let her children be able to look at the newspapers in their local newsagents without seeing her face.
I'd understand if this was a revelation that had come after 9 years of no information. However, the Express sees it fit to plaster any story relating to Diana on the front page as soon as they find out about it. If the guy who is doing the investigation into her death's goldfish was to die in the middle of the night, despite it's age or whether it was won on a hook a duck stall at a carnival, it's death would be called 'mysterious' and it would take up a 6 page spread.
I repeat, Daily Express, please get a new story. Please.
I'm surprised it hasn't become the Diana Express yet...
Bobbikk
So can you imagine the looks on peoples faces around me when I read the Daily Express this morning at the station on my way back to university? Now I bet you're thinking 'all that information about the world today must have flooded his stuck-in-a-university-timewarp brain of his and his face exploded'. Well you'd be wrong. Nothing that interesting happened. C'mon people, this is real life, not some episode of the X-files. Get real.
What actuall happened was that I did a double take on the paper. That's right, I looked at it, looked up to see a person with bright pink spikey hair and then my brain decided that the newspaper headline was more surprising than the freak of nature in front of me (no offence to a people with spikey pink hair, but I think it works better on people who are in their 20's and not those going through a midlife crisis, that's all).
Apparently, (the Daily Express can FINALLY reveal) there might be a conspiracy surrounding Diana's death 9 years ago. That's right might be a conspiracy. Now, that might be interesting news, when they first reported it, 9 years ago. Get a new story Express, please. Leave the poor woman to rest in peace. Let her children be able to look at the newspapers in their local newsagents without seeing her face.
I'd understand if this was a revelation that had come after 9 years of no information. However, the Express sees it fit to plaster any story relating to Diana on the front page as soon as they find out about it. If the guy who is doing the investigation into her death's goldfish was to die in the middle of the night, despite it's age or whether it was won on a hook a duck stall at a carnival, it's death would be called 'mysterious' and it would take up a 6 page spread.
I repeat, Daily Express, please get a new story. Please.
I'm surprised it hasn't become the Diana Express yet...
Bobbikk
posted by Bobbikk @ Monday, November 27, 2006
1 Comments:
At November 28, 2006 4:58 PM,
Sara said…
Dear God Robert...you read tabloids? How very common of you.
The Daily Express isn't a real newspaper. It's tabloid rubbish. If you wish to read about real news then actually buy a newspaper with real news in it. Rather than the Daily Express.
And by the by did one get the Diana Express bit from Wiki? Cos it says it on there and it's a long running joke.
God Cattell, be original. I'm going to have to educate you!
=P
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