Radio Narcissism

There are serious events taking place today: abroad, the return of Bhutto to Karachi; at home, a 16 year old boy shot dead in a playground in Sheffield; in politics the summit in Portugal to ratify the European Constitution. So the BBC's PM news programme leads off with a full twenty minutes of news and interviews (bleating) about staff cuts in the BBC. It reminds me of the wall-to-wall coverage they supplied on the news of the death of the disc-jockey, that mediocrity John Peel - again one of their own.

Do they actually think we are interested? I hope they carry out their threat to go on strike in protest at the cuts. Silence is better than the trivialisation of news and current affairs