This week, the news has mainly been about The Hacking Scandal that threatens to bring down Rupert Murdochs media empire. An empire that spans some very decent newspapers, some lesser newspapers and the most entertaining yet tragic news source on the planet... Fox News!
I have spoke to a couple of people to find out what they think of The Hacking Scandal as it's clearly BIG NEWS so have decided to share my thoughts.
I suspect this sort of thing has been going on for decades. If I were a journalist, it would make sense to keep the police sweet by buying them coffee/ lunch from time to time. I don't think that I'd be that interested in people's phone messages though in the sense that I wouldn't appreciate people going through my private phone records. Meh, each to their own. I don't really care about who Celebrity-Dater has been texting and what the Prime Minister is having for tea/ put on his expense report and I find it repugnant that the mobile phone of a dead girl was hacked... However, if they had managed to find a clue that would have lead to avoiding the tragedy that happened, this would be a different story. All in all... investigative journalism is just that - investigative. I have an altogether quicker, easier and less painfull solution...
STOP READING THE CRAP.
If me (I include myself in this as I have a weakness for trash) and you stop picking up celeb-anorexia-club-no-wait-she's-too-fat magazines and don't read what's published, there will be no need to forever be scouraging for the next headline piece. There are many articles that have come to light as a result of this (Expenses Scandal comes to mind) that are of the public interest but for the rest of it... Leave it out and let's get back to reading about REAL news.
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