The investigationa is not about contacts with girls, it's misconduct in public office.
Which is not really any excuse for giving it blanket coverage, to the exclusion of almost everything else.
I am especially baffled by the way that reporters have to stand outside
Buck House in order to tell us about this, and in a number of cases,
present the (vanishingly small amount of) "other news"
Grumpy or not, the OP has a valid point--
On 20/02/2026 11:08, Naqerj wrote:
On 20/02/2026 9:48 am, Peter wrote:
I'm getting a bit fed up with all this coverage of the idiot
princeling and
his sleazy chums. The story took up three quarters of the lunchtime
news on
the beeb yesterday. I suspect that it is only journos and a few
politicians
who are interested in the antics of these rich morons. Or do the general >>> public really want to slaver over the gory details of these antics?
I find it best not to watch/listen to/read the arjf at all.-a Then, if
I listen to the eNsw uQzi [5] at the end of the week, I pick up all
the highlights of what's happened.
[5] Other satirical programmes are available.
Likewise, I never deliberately watch or listen to the news. I work on
the principle that if the news is bad enough, you get to hear about it anyway.
And if you can't do anything about it, what's the point of knowing about
it?
I'm getting a bit fed up with all this coverage of the idiot princeling
and his sleazy chums. The story took up three quarters of the lunchtime
news on the beeb yesterday. I suspect that it is only journos and a few politicians who are interested in the antics of these rich morons. Or do
the general public really want to slaver over the gory details of these antics?
Of course I feel sorry for the victims of the paedophilia that seems to
have gone on, but there are worse examples that get barely a mention in
the press.
Sorry fellow sheddii, I'm a bit grumpy today.
On 20/02/2026 12:14, Hymermut wrote:
On 20/02/2026 11:08, Naqerj wrote:
On 20/02/2026 9:48 am, Peter wrote:
I'm getting a bit fed up with all this coverage of the idiot
princeling and
his sleazy chums. The story took up three quarters of the lunchtime
news on
the beeb yesterday. I suspect that it is only journos and a few
politicians
who are interested in the antics of these rich morons. Or do the general >>> public really want to slaver over the gory details of these antics?
I find it best not to watch/listen to/read the arjf at all.a Then, if
I listen to the eNsw uQzi [5] at the end of the week, I pick up all
the highlights of what's happened.
[5] Other satirical programmes are available.
Likewise, I never deliberately watch or listen to the news. I work on
the principle that if the news is bad enough, you get to hear about it anyway.
And if you can't do anything about it, what's the point of knowing about it?
Perhaps the news from across the water - about Trump's tariffs being
found to be illegal - will use up at least some of the air time/column inches?
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