10 Membranes

News and Events and Words

Does anyone else have the following condition?

Great events happen, always have, always will. Now, thanks to the power of The Meeja, these events get broadcast live, chewed over by panelsists and columnists and hacks and talking haeds, get broadcast again on the evening news and then again at 10, before being blogged about, and chatted on the radio. The result is that there is a shedload of news and when a great event happens it all tends to cluster around that event and its associated discourse. This means we hear the same phrases.

A lot.

Which gets boring. I remember getting bored of hearing the word Diana. I remember when the “9/11” (the phrase) started gratting on my tits like a rottweiler OD-ing on caffeine pills. And now, thanks to the combined forces of incompetent financial management and The Meeja I am bored bored bored of the words “credit crunch” and “economic crisis”. Now the actual events which still continue to fascination, appall, terrify and amuse in due measure; but just the words themselves, endless, mindlessly repeated by the same sorry correspondents searching for a new way to say the same old tired tag lines.

I even just wrote a blog post that used these words, and bored me in the process.

Hmmm. I am part of a generation that is more Meeja than even The Meeja.