What is it about the British media that makes it so pathetic ?
It's been reported that the Prime Minister, Boris (otherwise Alexander Boris de Pfeffel) Johnson, has married his fiancé, Carrie (Caroline Louise ?) Symonds in London today. Big news, an engaged couple who've been living together and already have a child have actually tied the knot; this is not entirely newsworthy stuff.
However, the media, in typical fashion, have looked for any angle to make it seem as though it's an event that matters. Is Boris being controlled by Carrie ? Is Carrie the real power behind the throne ? Why did they not tell the world about the date of the marriage instead of keeping it a 'secret' ?
Perhaps I'm old fashioned but for me the marital doings of a Prime Minister are not my business, nor those of anyone else, until they become entangled with affairs of state. If, when and where Mr Johnson and Ms Symonds choose / chose to marry is their business, not mine nor that of anyone else. Why the evermore intrusive press should believe otherwise is something of a mystery. Are they angered at missing out on a 'scoop' or is it just a result of an insatiable urge to know the ins and outs of the private lives of anyone whose name has ever appeared in print ?
This marriage is not news. It never will be news in any meaningful sense. It is merely fodder for the masses whose lives are so dull that they drool over the doings of anyone whose face appears on television or on the cover of a magazine, no mtatter how far down the scale of dreggery.
Given tripe such as this, my contempt for the British press grows by the day. As for the future of mankind, obsessed by this kind of drivel, I've given up all hope some time ago.
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