A friend emailed me the other day that he was fed up watching TV news because it was so depressing, I thought that was a little too strong a reaction until I turned on the BBC for an international catch up.
In the 20-minute broadcast they managed to cover a stern talking to from the Pope about the secularisation of the world, then a statement from an obviously well-fed Pakistani politician that his people were not starving - this mixed with pictures of people fighting for food following the recent floods.
An interview with a Rwandan head of state insisted that there wasn't any real genocide in his country came just ahead of a piece on the stabbing assassination in London of a Pakistani politician in hiding there. It looks like the Israeli/Palestinian talks have broken down again - what is that, the thousandth time in my lifetime?
The UN General Secretary (Ban Ki-Moon is it?), dressed in an immaculate silk suit, shirt and tie, (which I doubt he got off the rack at J.C. Penney) admonished us about the fate of starving people all around the world; he implied it was somehow my fault. He was followed by an interview of a rather large woman, who was a member of America's new one in seven poor. All in all an exhilarating roundup of news items. Turning to the local channel I did see a story where someone had mixed up the DMV's office number with a porn site, which was upsetting callers who wanted to make an appointment to take a test. So it wasn't all bad I guess!
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