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Following on from my rant (you’ll notice I do that quite a bit) the other day about the tabloid media’s obsession with crime, I now turn my attention to TV’s obsession with it.

Every single person in this country is supposed to pay a TV license, which costs £135.50 a year, in order to watch TV. That in itself is a joke, but the biggest joke of all is that this money is used to essentially run the BBC. I wouldn’t have a problem with that if the BBC didn’t do three things:

1)  Show more repeats of shows everyone has seen at least four times before

2)  Waste money on pap like Strictly Come Dancing or any of that musical guff with Graham Norton

3)  Give us such godawful news coverage

The first two points are fairly self explanatory, but I’ll talk about the last point.

The BBC have a 24 hour news channel (BBC News 24 - imaginative name, eh?). It is rubbish and almost completely unwatchable. Why? Wall-to-wall coverage of nothing.

As an example, I’ll use the whole Madeline McCann thing - when her parents were being questioned about her disappearance, the BBC had more than one reporter outside the door of the police station reporting that the McCann’s were IN the police station. They didn’t run this once or twice during the day, they did it EVERY HALF AN HOUR!!! Picture the scenario of a reporter standing outside a door basically saying "yes, they’re behind that door being questioned" for at least 7 hours. The sad thing is that this really happened.

Getting back to my post headline though, the TV news shows are almost as bad as the tabloid press when reporting crime.

Our local BBC news is Reporting Scotland, and every couple of weeks they seem to wheel out the same footage of people fighting whilst drunk. The problem I have with this is that there is never any news to go along with the footage. Telling everybody that when people get drunk they might get violent is like telling a child that Santa doesn’t exist when they’re 23 - sorry if I’ve ruined anyone’s life with that comment!

I can’t understand why we’re always being told that young people are evil, getting drunk is bad and Sean Connery is a good Scot (live in Scotland then you arsehole!) - it’s all complete rubbish.

I accept that drinking too much is not a good idea, but if you want to do that why should I care? It’s the same reason why I couldn’t give a shit that gangs want to kill each other - it’s less people for me to have to bother about.

When it comes to crime it’s fairly simple - be vigilant, but don’t be afraid.

Easy.

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