Sky's Merchants of Doom & Gloom

I reckon it’s got to the point where there should be a government health warning permanently displayed onscreen on Sky News. If they didn’t take themselves so seriously it would be laughable. These broadcasting terrorists spray their fear like ricin on a Tokyo subway. The world has managed to overcome the recession that they predicted would bankrupt us all. Avian flu and Swine flu were to decimate the human race similar to the asteroid that did for the dinosaurs. The death of Michael Jackson or Katie Price’s divorce, no story is too small to justify not sending Jeremy Thompson and the vacuous Kay Burley on a jolly to. Thompson thinks he has the gravitas of Richard Dimbleby and Kay is just…..well…. callous and snide a la Peter Andre’s grilling on a personal and private matter that should have stayed just that, not drilled home to the point of making a grown man cry.

Now the alarmist focus is on the BA strike and the RMT’s decision to also strike. “It’s just like the winter of discontent of 1978 only it’s spring and 2010 and in 1978 the strikes were about low-pay and now they’re about saving jobs” said Sky’s reporter tonight, with the cue to show piles of uncollected rubbish adorning Leicester Square nearly 32 years ago. So it’s nothing like 1978 then!

Whether Thompson and Burley will fancy presenting from outside a rain sodden Terminal 5 at Heathrow remains to be seen.


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