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Tuesday, January 14, 2014

The Importance Of Trivia

Most workers rely on the daily press to find out what is happening in the world but it is an unreliable source. 'Both the Sun and the Daily Mirror use Coronation Street's latest storyline - which sees long-standing character Hayley Cropper use a drugs overdose to end her life - to highlight serious issues.' (BBC News, 14 January)  Claims that French President Francois Hollande has been having an affair - and was seen being transported to his secret rendez-vous by moped was covered extensively by the Daily Telegraph, Times and Daily Express. We live in a society wherein millions starve, and hundreds of thousands suffer the results of military conflict but the mass media concentrates on a soap opera and the sexual activities of a politician. RD

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