Quick and - I hope - funny

Sometimes one gets a bit jaded with the lack of originality in the presentation of news on television. I have the definite impression that the object is more entertainment value than information distribution. And the requirement that few items should be longer than a couple of minutes leaves most of them at a most unsatisfactory point.

Why didn’t (s)he ask the obvious follow-up question? How can they be so stupid? If they know it’s wrong, why don’t they change it? These are just some of the questions which the watching public ask.

I was particularly amused with the article recently about a small town which had been so badly affected by the heavy snow-falls here in Sweden recently that they had not been able to plough the snow from the streets properly, and had created a meter high wall of snow outside the cars which were legally parked when the plough passed, which prevented them from driving away, to the chagrin of the owners. Even here in Sweden not everybody carries a spade in the trunk during winter, especially not in town traffic. Imagine the stupidity of the city council which then sent out its parking attendants to fine all the owners whose cars they had themselves prevented from moving.

Here at last is revenge on the news reporters, if not on the decision makers. Taken from a new series running in England, apparently, this shows just how to make a television news item. Does it look familiar?

© James Wilde 2015