More Daily Mail ranting
The fuss about 'Manhunt' (the case where a 17 year-old killed his 14 year-old friend after being 'obsessed' by the computer game) is a contemporary version of the 'Child's Play' furore, thus naturally it's all over the Daily Mail. Mainly as it's a slow week for news. They also featured an article on the fulfillment of being a real life Stepford
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Same here. I don't know whether you're interested in sport or not, but Jeff Powell - whose columns are normally hilarious anyway - has been on top form this week. He's basically the sporting equivalent of the Mail's usual hysteria. When Eriksson was appointed England manager, he wrote the immortal words "We've sold our birthright up the fjords to a nation of hammer-throwers and skiiers". But this week, he's had roughly a full page a day to rant at how much he hates Eriksson (calling him, among other things, a "grubby little man") and how Terry Venables is a far more suitable candidate for the job, and much more of an upstanding citizen. This would be the same Terry Venables who still has a year left on a ban from being director of a company in this country due to his dodgy financial dealings in the past.
As for the whole Manhunt thing, meanwhile - well, I wrote about it on my journal earlier today. It's the hypocrisy that I can't stand - as you said, it's the new "Child's Play" (something I know all about, coming from Liverpool, where the Bulger murder happened). Yet if the Bulger killing had happened today, the press wouldn't be looking to ban "Child's Play". They'd find a computer game to blame instead.
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When I was younger, I wanted to be a journalist, but didn't puruse that career track as it appeared to me you needed a lot of talent to succeed. How naïve I was.
Powell wasn't so amusing today, with his boring Tyson article. But there was a writer called Ian Ladyman whose name amused me, for I am 12.
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