Today is the day when traditionally the media try to come up with some highly unlikely news stories, but not this year, it seems – with one honourable exception.
I scoured the national papers trying to find the funnies, but almost in vain. A colleague claimed the Alan Shearer-Newcastle United news was a put up job, but apparently it is true.
Are today’s journalists lacking in imagination or – more likely – are they too busy trying to hang onto their jobs?
With so much gloom and doom around at the moment it would have been good to find a bit of light relief in the papers, but only The Guardian seemed to rise to the challenge. Under a dubious by-line of Rio Palof the newspaper announced that after 188 years as a printed news medium in future it would be available exclusively via Twitter.
Read the story and have a smile – and reflect on the fact that one day it might not be such a joke, with the ever-increasing influence of electronic media.
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