Does It Come Down To Fighter Jets Or Phikwe? :: Mmegi Online

A friend tells me that, nowadays, he only rarely buys newspapers because nothing much happens and anyway, when an issue does emerge, it is rarely followed up. His latter point is obviously correct and is something which editors may need to note. His first observation however seems to me to be wildly out of tune.

I am not sure that I can remember any previous time when there were so many news stories tripping over each other - much like listening to the international news of the day – one disaster after another with the key score sheet being the number of recorded or estimated dead and injured.

Floods, land slides, road and train accidents, fires, terrorist attacks and suicide bombers. It is always infinitely depressing. Sadly, the domestic scene, with its own special catalogue of disaster, albeit of its own kind, has now become little different.

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