I was going to start a new feature today called "In The News or Something", but it will have to wait for a while.

I was going to pick a single daily news story and give it the braingunk treatment.

And do you know what I found? I found that all the newspapers I canvassed were almost completely devoid of anything even remotely interesting enough to cover.

Now as a self confessed media recluse I don’t often read newspapers, mainly because they are starting to fill up with too much advertising (which I hate) and partly because the so called "news" within their folds, tends to be nothing more than a mixture of public repression scare stories, politics, tragic tales of people killing their own kids and/or celebrity bollocks, none of which I have much of an interest in to be honest.

And sure enough again this morning the papers are full of that regular mix of fear, horror and crap, but I continued hunting for that one little gem of a story, or at least something funny.  But today once more, there is nothing, not a single little snippet of news that is worthy of mention.  So my personal opinion is that the great and global news machine might have finally tipped over a very important precipice…  the point where the so called news is no longer worth reading at all… the point where the newspaper has become just another business who's business it is to print what it's supposed to print. Printing what keeps the mindless masses happy and/or controlled and above all keeps making money for those who've turned another public service into just another cash cow.

I wrote a piece a while aback when the Evening Standard went from being a paid newspaper to the free format and at that time I hailed it as the end of an era… I had no idea that the newspaper as a concept itself would so swiftly follow.