.. pay parades Chuggers?
BBC,
Its exploitative and unfair on the recipient of the attention, isn't it? If I was the bloke, I'd probably think 'Did she say yes, because she felt pressured to..?'. And why do it like that anyway? It makes what should be an act of intimacy all so terribly.. false. I saw some head teacher talking about one of the girls tragically killed in Equador, and I wanted to punch him out cold for referring to her as a 'prized asset to the human race' and that 'her loss is all the more worse because of the career she had infront of her'. What?? Is she worth more than a child bought up in a deprived inner city because she is of a nice family and off to Uni??
And then the BBC intruded in on the grief for 24 hours and all we had, was this dreadful cringing display for public consumption. The news channels (and the mass market) didn't give a damn about the girl or the grief of her family, or the fact that there might be UK companies sending kids out to gain global work experience on buses with shot brakes or crappy drivers. The news editors were simply scrambling over themselves to get something to give the post Diana tear jerkers their faux pathos fix, and to fill a slot on the "news" to keep the g'ment and curtain-twitchers and grief-junkies comatose. Still, I read that the BBC news is being rebranded to make it even more family friendly (delete: family friendly - insert: dumbed down even further).
The real news has become a sideshow for the freaks, just as it was for that poor girl. What next? Tickets and webcam to the birth of the first born?