I wonder where the trend in the medias reporting of news is going to end.
If we step back a couple of hundred years the news of a distant discovery, war or attrocity could take 6 months to reach the UK.
Then came faster ships and the news arrived in weeks.
The arrival of radio enabled the news broadcaster to report things that happened a few days ago or if the censor allowed perhaps a few hours ago.
The newspapers were, of course still limited by their overnight printing to reporting what happened yesterday.

Until relatively recently the many facets of the media were able to think for themselves and collectively reported what had happened.

Then the UK's current administration managed to take control of the media and now I wake to the 6 o'clock news on the BBC telling me that today Tony Blair will say ...............

So where does this end.

Will we go the way of homosexuality, My Father, now sadly dead, used to say that as a young man in the 1920's homosexuality was " the love that dare not speak its name " because it was illegal and regarded as perverted.
By the time we got to the 1960's homosexuality had become something that was acknowledged and then made legal between consenting adults in private.
In more recent years, certainly the BBC or the British Government ( aren't they the same thing)seem to believe its a normal way of life.
But at least my father died before it reached the logical end to this progression which is to make it compulsory.