Tuesday, November 11, 2008

First with the news

I got home on Friday evening, switched on Radio 4 just in time for the 8 o’clock news

In portentous tones, the newsreader said: Within the last few minutes, President-elect Obama….

My heart stopped. Noooh!

But it was OK, nothing very urgent at all, just the modern disease of wanting to be first with the news