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.