Our work kitchen has a flat-panel television, streaming Sky News 24/7. Sky News is owned by the News Corp., and in my opinion is no better than the sensational-prone print tomes of the Murdoch Cartel, like The Sun, or The Courier Mail. Our nickname, here at work, for Sky News, is Chav News, as it seems to appeal to the sensationalist sympathies of the struggling conservatives. I've seen some doozy Sky News ticker-tape headlines, but the one I saw today, easily the best, can't be attributed to the news organisation:
IRANIAN PRESIDENT SAYS SOLUTION TO MIDDLE-EAST PROBLEM IS TO DESTROY ISRAEL.
The situation in Lebanon is equally tragic and appalling, but that outrageous headline made me laugh. It's like something I'd expect so see on South Park, not a news channel reporting a factual statement. While Ahmadinejad's remarks had me giggling, Tony Blair's response had me rolling on the floor. With what can only be described as definitive English understatement, Blair described the President's remarks as "deeply unhelpful".
