Why are we stuck in a news vortex ??

Why are we subjected to the same, never-ending news ‘stories’ that seems to dominate every bulletin, yet tell us nothing?

The ‘missing Madeline’ non-news festival has been dribbling along for SIX months, and yet reveals nothing of consequence that was not known on day one. But it still makes front page news nearly every day! Tomorrow it is the topic for Panorama

Princess Diana- Its been ten years, she is just as dead as she was in 1997, so why on earth are we subjected to the endless tedious conjecture about what did or did not happen, or the reasons why Phil the Greek slotted her. Does anybody care anymore? How many reports have to be commissioned, and then raked over in infinite deteail, and STILL tell us nothing.

Jean Charles Mennezzzezzzes. An unlucky individual caught up in extraordinary circumstances and whose death was essentially an accident. But the BBC has embraced this as some sort of anti-establishment cause, an effective weapon to use against our oppressive security services and promoted it in every possible news or discusssion outlet.

One life was lost in tragic and confused circumstances, but the day before, 50 were deliberately taken in random pre-meditated murder, though oddly enough, there is comparatively scant media examination of the people or the factions behind that outrage, or those who should be held accountable.

Should we be troubled by this non-news diet, and the bite-sized ‘human-interest’ living soap opera stories, the Tragic Princess, and the little angel spirited away by the goblin, or the politically skewed reporting which always leans pro-liberal, pro-gay, pro-Muslim? No, if we can choose to avoid it, but it seems inescapable on our own mainstream news media, ie TV and radio, and yet these are the ones for which we are compelled to pay.

There is a lot of news in the world, and so it seems odd that we have to endure our own groundhog day with the same stories going round and round and round, but never reaching the end.