I Read the News Today...

Another one of those weekends when the news stories all seemed to merge into one. Which wasn't surprising as Sunday, in particular, seemed a fast moving day news-wise, with breaking stories coming thick and fast. As far as I could make out, Luis Suarez was apologising for drowning Whitney Houston in the bath in Beverly Hills, (his alibi of refusing to shake hands with Patrice Evra having apparently unravelled), which seemed to result in large numbers of her fans in Greece rioting, before Sir Alex Ferguson and Evra accepted his apology, (they're both huge Whitney fans - Sir Alex has seen The Bodyguard over two hundred times and still cries at the bit where Kevin Costner carries her to safety). For its part, the FA has said it plans no further action against Suarez over Houston's death. I suppose that I really should pay more attention during the news. That said, on the whole, I preferred my version. (I should emphasise here that Luis Suarez had nothing at all to do with Whitney Houston's demise and that there is no evidence of foul play in her death).

The other big news story was the arrest of several Sun journalists on suspicion of making illegal payments to police officers. Indeed, this one is so big that it is still rumbling along today, (and shows no sign of going away any time soon). Actually, today's developments have caused me much hilarity. The now bailed deputy editor's outrage over the treatment of him and his colleagues by the police was a priceless example of pot calling kettle black. He claimed to be appalled that decent family men like them could be hauled out of bed in dawn raids and have their houses searched, with nothing being considered too personal to be probed by the searchers. Bearing in mind that The Sun and its fellow tabloids have, for decades, specialised in invading people's privacy, harassing them and generally turning their lives upside down, all in the name of the 'public interest', this seems like poetic justice. I really have no sympathy with these tabloid hacks. AS they say, what goes around, comes around. Still, if I wanted to bring this post full circle, I should speculate that Whitney Houston was, in fact, assassinated by News Corps in order to divert attention from the arrests, (just like they did with Amy Winehouse when the phone hacking scandal really hit the fan), but that would just be tasteless, wouldn't it?