Quintin Jardine's blog

Who prioritises news? Why are the broadcast media full of Mubarak and Lord Oakeshott (?) when Charles Taylor’s war crimes trial is coming to a conclusion? In comparison to that tale of genocide, who should give one about an 82-year old despot clinging to the illusion of power, or an obscure LibDem peer resigning from government to which he was never elected, yet whose stories made bigger headlines?  Could it be that regardless of the moral and criminal aspects of a news story, it ceases to be of interest as soon as the viewer figures start to decline? Give a few quid to Amnesty International or Comic Relief then buy the Daily Mail and go back to reading the shit they tell you is important. That’s the nation we’ve become.