Just watched the evening (6 pm) bulletin on BBC1. Gordon Brown reportedly stated that we Brits throw away too much food. That information took about 30 seconds. The bulletin then went on for a further 10 minutes with a report on food wastage in Britain. One woman courageously said she didn't feel at all guilty about ditching food she no longer wanted. Good for her because neither do I. Not all that long ago we were hearing about EU wine lakes and butter mountains because our politicians were encouraging farmers to produce crops nobody wanted to buy. Wine was converted to vinegar. But my point is that all this is documentary and emphatically not news. And it's preachy which to my mind means self-defeating. And of course it's nonsense to suggest that because someone in Tunbridge Wells throws away a carrot someone in Africa starves.
And following on from that although I live in Scotland the BBC transmitted to me the local London news from 6.30. to 6.50. But of course it doesn't matter how incompetent these people are because they get the tax (TV licence fee) irrespective of performance.
