With much of Britain in the grip of 'The biggest snowfall for years' the media and especially television news programmes seem to have worked themselves up into a right old frenzy.
With doom laden tones the headline announcements are made over dramatic drumbeats to increase the sense of foreboding and of course all that is really happening is that we are talking about the weather.
I sympathise with those who are temporarily stuck or cut off by the snow but come on - it's hardly nuclear war is it?
Newscasters have taken to interviewing each other, a sure sign that the story is being over dramatised and ITV's six thirty bulletin yesterday evening treated us to the spectacle of the female lead news reader standing outside, wild eyed and in full 'The North Face' kit somewhere in Manchester of all places telling us that it had snowed! It can't be that bad, she managed to travel from London to Manchester ok didn't she?
She appeared to be standing in some sort of municipal square and announced in portentous tones that 'drivers had heeded warnings and not ventured out into the snow'. Even if drivers had ventured out the local council might not have been too pleased to see them driving across their crocus beds where the news reader was standing!
The picture switched to a couple of different parts of the country with equally silly reporters togged up with thermal Gore Tex anoraks fit for SAS use trying to find ways to blame somebody.
The best bit of all for me came and the part that has prompted my post came when we were handed back to the female lead in the frozen wastes of Manchester who then spoke in block capitals about a cyclist managing to 'get through' and immediately followed up by saying that 'one motorist hadn't made it' accompanied by a picture of a saloon car royally pranged on some railings!
A car slides into some railings and it's on national news?
By this time I was laughing fit to bust,I've never seen anything so utterly silly in my life.
I can't help imagining Osama Bin Liner sitting in his mountain cave with his satellite system powered by a leccy wallah with a bicycle powered generator tuning in to ITV to find out what the Hated Infidel Son of Satan is going to do next.
'Ha!-That'll teach the Infidel on the bike to go out without a vest on!'
I can hardly wait for this evenings bulletin, Worst Snow for Years or Silliest News Story for Years?
With doom laden tones the headline announcements are made over dramatic drumbeats to increase the sense of foreboding and of course all that is really happening is that we are talking about the weather.
I sympathise with those who are temporarily stuck or cut off by the snow but come on - it's hardly nuclear war is it?
Newscasters have taken to interviewing each other, a sure sign that the story is being over dramatised and ITV's six thirty bulletin yesterday evening treated us to the spectacle of the female lead news reader standing outside, wild eyed and in full 'The North Face' kit somewhere in Manchester of all places telling us that it had snowed! It can't be that bad, she managed to travel from London to Manchester ok didn't she?
She appeared to be standing in some sort of municipal square and announced in portentous tones that 'drivers had heeded warnings and not ventured out into the snow'. Even if drivers had ventured out the local council might not have been too pleased to see them driving across their crocus beds where the news reader was standing!
The picture switched to a couple of different parts of the country with equally silly reporters togged up with thermal Gore Tex anoraks fit for SAS use trying to find ways to blame somebody.
The best bit of all for me came and the part that has prompted my post came when we were handed back to the female lead in the frozen wastes of Manchester who then spoke in block capitals about a cyclist managing to 'get through' and immediately followed up by saying that 'one motorist hadn't made it' accompanied by a picture of a saloon car royally pranged on some railings!
A car slides into some railings and it's on national news?
By this time I was laughing fit to bust,I've never seen anything so utterly silly in my life.
I can't help imagining Osama Bin Liner sitting in his mountain cave with his satellite system powered by a leccy wallah with a bicycle powered generator tuning in to ITV to find out what the Hated Infidel Son of Satan is going to do next.
'Ha!-That'll teach the Infidel on the bike to go out without a vest on!'
I can hardly wait for this evenings bulletin, Worst Snow for Years or Silliest News Story for Years?
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