Was that headline sensational?
No, then maybe I was 300 years too late...
... but if that kind of attitude is all in the past and from a bygone age of superstition and manipulation of the many by the few, then why is News of the World playing the Satan game today?
I don't mean demonising an 'overpaid, oversexed, not that nice' professional football player, which I guess in itself has something of the Spanish inquisition about it.
I do mean why they and the rest of their brethren press engage in destructive news foraging to find ways of exposing private instances of misdemeanour and raising the issue to the level of a national trial by opinion.
Do I care what John Terry has been up to? No, but...
Actually, yes I do, because it is such a farcical affair of no consequence, so what is the reason for it being the natio-anal headline? Aren't we being encouraged to believe in nothing and one the 1 second hail a group of highly paid individuals as national heroes, just so we can be told they are evildoers and hedonists the next? If it is low rent media fodder, why aren't the big natioanl dailies and news sources ridiculing the whole madness?
The BBC and ITV, and all media outlets have played their part in this... Please if you read this comment on what national news media has graced themselves by leaving this alone.
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