Todays News...

[ffutures]

Apparently the only important thing happening in the world this evening is that a heavily pregnant woman has gone into labour, possibly a day or two later than expected.

Makes me wonder what was shuffled off the front pages and out of the headlines generally to make news for the seven or so pages given to this non-story, and who benefits from it.

Comments

[nelc.livejournal.com]

I was going to say that that was a bit paranoid, because births are notoriously hard to get exact timings on, but I see it was early enough this morning that they could have said go/no go on anything they had lined up for this week.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I'm probably being a little paranoid, but it's the sort of event that is often used to minimise the impact of things the public would otherwise complain about.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

I'm staying away from the news and BBC1, though I have to say I rather pity Kate as it isn't exactly reat weather in which to give birth.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

Well, I need the paper for Sudoku etc...

[gonzo21.livejournal.com]

My money is on this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401076

Making porn 'opt-in' for people will do absolutely nothing to stop the kiddies accessing porn, which means, to my mind, that it's the thin end of the wedge on politicians' desire to completely control the internet.

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

No, that actually got a moderate amount of coverage in the papers - I'm wondering if there's anything that got dumped completely.

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I'm rather hoping Bruce Forsyth might die today - and we can either miss 24 hours of dead Brucie news, or we can watch them trying to cover both non-stories at the same time...

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I didn't even realise he was still alive!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I fear so - despite my daughter ill-wishing him every time he turns up on TV...