It was strange watching BBC news this moaning. They were asking people to text in their opinions as to who they thought were more intelligent between cats and dogs. Its never insightful asking people who have never studied animals for boring anecdotal evidence. Picture the screen; some archive footage of poodles while ‘journalists’ read out texts from the kind of person with nothing better to do in the middle of the day then sending the BBC a message reading “you would never see a cat in a circus, they’re too stupid to be trained”. Another one said (and I swear to god I’m not making this up) “this year my cat paid my council tax”. While this was happening the ticker going along the bottom of the screen read “North and South Korea exchange dozens of artillery shells across their tense western sea border, in one of the most serious incidents in years”.I think we need distractions from the serious stuff, without things like football and the X-factor we might just end up pissed of enough about the recession to actually do something about it. One way to preserve the status-quo would be to carry on presenting news like this. Instead of images of bombings, disasters and poor people we could just watch clips of babies, puppies and kittens while the ticker told us that Greenland has melted and the pension age was going up to 106. It wouldn’t matter because kittens are really cute, nothing would matter.Having said that we could all just get stoned.
