Thank God, Goodbye, Murdoch

What the News of the World front page should have read is

Thank God

Goodbye

This newspaper and some others a bit like it are a scourge on our society, far from the holier than you view they have of themselves - we expose wrong doing,, blah, blah, blah... they deceive people into very damaging beliefs and attitude to life. They act as life substitutes, people read these rags and adopt their opinions, as a alternative to thinking for themselves.

I would class soaps in the same way. People watch them and lead the characters lives, not their own. They feel the characters emotions and hold the characters opinions.

We need to clean up

Time for our society to clean this up. It is probably not something that can be legislated away, but our politicians can certainly speak out. Cant' they? So let's be clear, we want a better news reporting, not scandal peddling press. We want less editorial opinion making, less cosying up to politicians, and more plain, good news. Like the Times used to be, or like the New York Times, Le Monde, Figaro or Corriere della sera and many other newspapers are.