Columnist Katie Price - the glamour model formerly known as Jordan - pays tribute to Sunday Times reporter Marie Colvin, who was killed in Syria earlier in the week. She was just the sort of woman who impresses me - utterly fearless," writes Price.
We actually care what that silicone-enhanced airhead thinks about the death of war correspondent Marie Colvin ? Do we care about anything she thinks, in fact ?
Its things like this that make me want to become a hermit in the Himalayas.
I am trying to avoid reading the news these days, it just gets me angry and raises my BP. I don't know what it is but trivia and trivial people are celebrated and rewarded these days. Coupled with increasing and graphic reports of sensless violence, and cruelty, I want to go to an island where I can shut out just about everything.
cstorey wrote:What astonishes me is why you're all surprised ! This is that well-known intellectual Murdoch at work , after all
Not so much 'surprised' as increasingly despairing, Chris.
I remember embarrassing my daughters in the Cambridge branch of W H Smith when upon spotting a stack of Jade Goody's biography, I reacted rather loudly to the effect of ' Who the bloody hell reads this CRAP ? '
These days, you are more likely to come across someone who knows the final score of the 1939 FA Cup Final than someone who's ever heard of Neville Chamberlain.
WhoTF gives a toss what the hell she thinks 
I suffer from paranoid amnesia. I can't remember who I don't trust.
