The news

[the-e-dealer]

Because you are very sick. ;-)

[Marmora Man]

This seems an appropriate response to the "celeb" scandal issue

[womanofdulwich]

:)

" LIke"

[Sue]

Somebody once started a "good news" newspaper, containing only good news.

Hardly anybody bought it. This is absolutely true.

Many people appear to thrive on bad news. Maybe it makes them feel lucky. Presumably this is why AOL (where I still have a little-used email address) fills their news page with stories of dead children. I have complained to them about this every time they ask for feedback, but nothing changes.

I don't click on the stories, but you still get the bloody headlines shoved in your face when you check your email.

Have gradually reduced my news consumption to the Saturday Grauniad and an occasional look at the Grauniad on my phone, unless there's a major incident like the helicopter crash at Vauxhall. Have not noticed any great loss from not knowing about what's going on :)

[stacey-lyn]

The repeated use of 'the radical cleric' has done my head in.

[the-e-dealer]

The Radical Cleric has said he will go home if given guarantees about evidence given under torture.

[stacey-lyn]

Aaaagh. I know, I know, I know - having heard the news far too many times today whilst on the M1. And if and when it happens I shall be waving him 'al Wada' from my humble home right under the flight path.

It's the synonymous titles I'm fed up with. Oh, I see. You were just yankin' my chain, the-e-dealer.