I put
the news on this morning to see the worst report ever. We were told that the
reporter had just been running into an Italian harbour to witness the arrival
of a boat carrying immigrants from Africa. We don’t know why they were
immigrating or where they had come from; all we were told was that they were
immigrants. We were told that some people had blankets which we could clearly
see behind him. The reporter then pointed out that one of them had a torch; and
that this must have come in handy during the voyage. He may as well have told
us that the boat was red or that it was night time. There was no actual news story;
he was simply describing what we were seeing. Perhaps he thought he was on the
radio rather than the television. If the point of TV news journalism is to
point out the obvious then I should be making millions by now.
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