HERE IS THE REAL NEWS..

Someone somewhere decides what is news and what isn`t.   I sometimes wonder whether they - whoever they may be - have any real sense of priority.

Yesterday`s BBC TV News included various items - some relevant, some not. And among the less relevant were items about Sky TV`s massive leap in half-year profits and as a result, Rupert Murdoch having to fork out more cash if he wants to have full control of  Sky;  his likely problems with the Competition Commission; the aftermath of the Gray/Keys afffair; celebrities having their phones hacked;  stuff about the upcoming Oscars... and so on.

It wasn`t until we were well into the second half of the `news` that mention was made of the fact that the 350th British death had occurred in Afghanistan since the start of the conflict there.  Another sacrifice;  another grieving family; another human tragedy.  And treated almost as a footnote to what someone somewhere considered to be more important.   And that might be the real tragedy of our times - that `celebrity` continues to take precedence over what should be real news. 

 No wonder we don`t know where we`re going.