Last Wednesday I woke up to breaking news about the death of a young celebrity. It was someone I’d never heard of. Someone who had fallen from a hotel balcony. There was film footage of a young reporter holding her microphone and standing in the street amongst a group of even younger women weeping and holding candles. So I switched channels from Sky to Grood Morning Britain. Same news. Same footage. So I switched again to BBC Breakfast. Guess What! Same news. Same footage. Was there really no other news to report? Nothing from the Middle East or Ukraine? Nothing happening in the US election? In desperation, I switched to BBC Parliament and watched Prime Minister’s Questions.
Then a couple of days ago another celebrity came on the scene, complaining about the way her former partner’s death had been reported. Would she have preferred that it had gone unreported? That would have been fine by me.
BRUCE AND HOLLY 