Seriously?

Britain's got Talent (as long as it's dancing or singing, apparently, I see few other talents in that fucking show) has now ended. Hoorah, now we may get some good TV on a Saturday night. Or not, because it was on ITV, a station less entertaining than watching two thalidomides playing twister.

But I'm not here to rant about ITV, but rather the mass hypocrisy of the media. The curious case of Susan Boyle, the hairy angel.

The press (in the UK, any yanks reading this will not know what I'm talking about, so they can go here) have been going on a bit about L'angel de la hair, how she is THE GREAT MESSIAH OF SINGING, how she's not that great, how she's gone psychotic, and how she's not cut out for fame, and how the press should leave here alone. Well, not every newspaper, the Express is currently linking Diana's death to the drop in house prices and the rise of cancer and immigrants, and the Independent are still trying to be a serious news paper HOW CUTE.

Surely anybody at this illustrious organs will have noticed the oddity here. They talk about her unable to handle the press coverage...and keep writing about her. The Daily Hate-Mail even had an ex-Big Brother psychologist stating in their pages that she should be left alone.

What is it with Britain and wanting so desparately to see somebody fall? Not just fall, but collapse face down into the shit in the gutter outside the ITV studios. The poor woman has done nothing to offend, so maybe back off and leave here alone?

There is that side of things, but then a thought strikes. How much of this has been orchestrated? Is the whole psychosis a fraud? We all know that insanity boosts viewing figures. Maybe it's all been carefully organised. After all, the judges reactions to Das Angel von Herr looked so pantomime that I started shouting "Oh no she isn't! (a brilliant singer)" at the screen until my girlfriend elbowed me in the bollocks.

So. To recap. START PUTTING NEWS IN NEWSPAPERS.

And Diana died, get the fuck over it.

-Az

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