The sky is falling! News at eleven!

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This is exactly what I've been saying for years when people talk about the news. Not a bad piece by a sports journalist.

Remember acid rain? It was a popular cause of mild hysteria in the 80s before global warming and its newer, more refined relation, climate change, became the fashionable apocalyptic scenario for people to pretend to be really quite bothered about.

Acid rain was going to dissolve buildings, pollute rivers, and make the earth too acid to grow anything. It was so bad Peter Gabriel even wrote a song about it.

But you never hear about acid rain anymore. Whether the rain is still acid or indeed if it ever really was, I have no idea. But clearly, the media have left it behind in favour of even more apocalyptic environmental eco-babble.

Similarly, its not many years ago that we were regularly subjected to doleful news reporters standing next to dried-up reservoirs proclaiming that this was the new super-heated, bone-dry future and definitely not just the a few dry years the like of which anyone who lived through the summers of '75 and '76 would recognise.

They would drag out someone who they'd assert is an 'expert' to say the water table is so depleted it would take two years of solid rain to top it up and as that would never happen we'd have to get used to water shortages and possible desertification of the south-east. The reporter would stare through the screen at us as though we had all been given a death sentence.

and a bit more.

Here's the current news agenda - everything is worse than it was, everything is in crisis, everything is the worst ever, down-right bad and/or out of control. Most stories are geared to fit this notion.

You rarely hear anyone proffer the notion that actually, things aren't historically bad at all and actually by and large most of us live relatively peaceful, prosperous lives that have never been more full of leisure time, sport, education, culture, art, orgasmic sex, low slung over-driven guitars, lovely chicks in tight pants and top-notch bottles of Chablis, not because this is not true, but because that would contradict the news agenda of negativity.

The whole story found at football 365.com