No More of This on Sundays…
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For years, I’ve been getting the Independent on Sunday every week. I thought it was a pretty good paper, with an self-proclaimed independent slant on the news, and no fluff. However, it’s been going downhill for quite a while now, with less news coverage and more fashion, more celebrity garbage and more alarmist “We’re all doomed!!” reports.
This week was the final straw – a big front-page splash: Children At Risk From Electronic Smog. It’s basically a repeat of the “mobile phones cause brain cancer” scare so popular a couple of years ago. However, as research has failed to find solid proof of harm from mobile phone radiation, the scare has shifted to the EMF radiation from wifi networks which, it shrieks in horror “…emit radiation and are being installed in classrooms across the nation.”
OMG!!111!!! Won’t somebody think of the children???!!!??
The paper is becoming far too much like the Daily Wail, who run these type of health scare stories every week. And I’m getting totally fed up with the paper’s editor star columnistJanet Street-Porter. She has a weekly column in which she never fails to mention at least six of her really really fabulous friends who just happen to be really really famous celebrities as well as being really really fabulously lovely wonderful down-to-earth ordinary people who would undoubtedly be just as wonderful if they weren’t obscenely rich. Janet, whatever planet you’re living on, it isn’t mine. And I’m afraid you’ll have to find the dosh to fly out to celebrity weddings without my weekly £1.80 contribution from now on.
I’ll miss some things – Rowan Pelling‘s column is always a refreshingly sensible read. And some of the cartoons are good.
But good bye Independent on Sunday – you just ain’t what you used to be.
Umm.. Janet Street-Porter stopped editing the Sindie some years ago. It’s now edited by Tristan, er, can’t remember.
Why, you didn’t like last week’s “Mobiles are killing our bees” story either? Taken together, it would look like we’re going to be acting in ‘Children of Men’, oh, by about the film’s timescale. Nothing like fitting the facts to the story, eh.
Thanks for the correction, Charles. (Um… Charles Arthur…? Last name wouldn’t happen to be Windsor..? Nahhhh….)
I’d forgotten the story about how eevil mobile phones are killing our bees. Really, you wonder how those meedja people can write this stuff, when they spend their whole lives working and living bathed in eeeevil EMF from mobiles, computers and other electrical gadgets. Why aren’t the writers of these articles living in the Outer Hebrides and sending in handwritten copy by post?
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