Quote Originally Posted by drillerpie View Post
https://youtu.be/5RRmE0_n0K4

https://youtu.be/x6T9wg5-2u0

I like news, but with the advent of rolling news I genuinely think there's too much of it. Or rather, it would be ok if it was detailed analysis that gave you genuine insight, but it tends to just be banal, repetitive, speculative and emotive.

Charlie Brooker pretty much nails it in the links I've posted here, but I also recommend looking up Matt Taibbi; he does a very interesting analysis on the way journalism has evolved (or perhaps regressed).
Think you are conflating two problems as one here, Drills. I think quality analysis of news issues is available if you look in the right places - Guardian, Times, Bellylaugh, Channel 4.
However, the other issue is the ridiculous overkill of certain issues - in this case. the Royal family. But then you see how people like Banjo react, having a love affair with the Crown, and that is just the attitude that the BBC addresses. I am sick of being told that I am a member of the British public who is devastated by 'my loss'. I'm not. He's 99; would that we could all live so long. Lost my dad at 48 - now that did devastate me.
No one gets out of here alive. And btw I am not an anti-monarchist.