Over the past few years, I have noticed a move away from reporting things that are really newsworthy. Once upon a time you could pick up a newspaper or turn on the TV and find news that was interesting or boring in even measure but it was factual and real.
Now it appears there is a need to sensationalise things. I don't mean that newsworthy items are being sensationalised, although that does happen in spades, I mean that non-newsworthy items are being sensationalised to become newsworthy, at least in the eyes of the hacks.
The item that has got my goat this morning and has prompted this minor rant is taken from the Daily Mail. It tells us that a Hotpoint washing machine exploded. In itself I suppose that has minor interest but is it newsworthy? Well they try to make it so by stating that it could have had consequences for a toddler. What? It could have injured a toddler that lived in the house? Not that it DID injure a toddler but that it could have done.
So could a flight of stairs, so could a pan of boiling water, so could hundreds of other things.
You can just imaging tomorrow mornings edition of a newspaper showing a photograph of a flight of stairs with a bit of loose carpet that could have caused injury to a toddler!
Please............!!!!!!!!
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