Saturday 9 April 2016

'Hair today, gone tomorrow' news



Talking about Newswatch...

You may already have read Quentin Letts's splendid rant about Tuesday's Newsnight in the Daily Mail....
This has been a tumultuous week for news. There has been the possible collapse of the Welsh steel industry, the Panama tax-dodging scandal, which has caused such grief to our Prime Minister, not to mention immigration fiascos, U.S. presidential news, horrific domestic murders. 
Yet how did BBC2’s Newsnight — the Corporation’s flagship TV current affairs programme, which has been accused of dumbing down over recent months — fill 11 minutes of airtime on Tuesday night? By inviting an obscure Irish-Nigerian Left-winger called Emma Dabiri to discuss the politically correct theory of ‘cultural appropriation’.....
On a slow news day, this might merit a paragraph at the end of a teeny-bopper magazine’s gossip page. To the jejune bien pensants who run Newsnight, however, it was a cultural controversy demanding extensive analysis.
 ....and a Newswatch viewer said much the same to say about it:
I simply cannot begin to express the ridiculousness of the ten or so minutes of tonight's Newsnight, dedicated to Justin Bieber's hairstyle. 
A dedicated news report, guests in the studio, another live from New York, all to discuss whether his 'cornrolls' are insulting to black and Afro-Caribbean culture. 
Can we please leave this kind of pathetic celebrity gossip to the likes of Heat magazine. IT IS JUST HAIR!

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