>>>>So last night I decided that I would catch up on world events a little and watch some CNN. I get 2 different CNN channels at home, along with MSNBC and Fox News.
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>>>>Set RANT ON
>>>>So I turn on CNN 1 and there are 6 people on the screen with serious looks on their faces all yak yak yaking about the psycho Ohio kidnapping guy. Turn to CNN2 - they have 5 people on the screen all yak yak yaking about the same thing. Switch to MSNBC news - the liberal news outlet - and they only have 4 people on the screen (sitting on a couch, not in bunch of little boxes) - yak yaking about the same thing. In move of desperation - I turn to Fox News (the conservative news outlet) and they have only 2 or 3 people on the screen yak yak yaking from various related "live locations" on this same damn story. I spent the next 30 minutes bouncing between all 4 channels ...and got nothing but this crap. So WTF they have psychologist they interview that's never even met the person and all this "deep analysis" crap and some "in depth" coverage about a guy who's mother's sister's ex boyfriend's aunt bought a cat from a guy that used to live next door to the guy when he was 6... do people really sit around and watch this crap? When the Boston bomb thing was going on CNN has clowns with 'breaking news' of a dog barking in the distance and plus I've had to put up with this stupid Jodi Arias trial for months listing to stupid little old lady's call in and say what they think abou the case - like I care what some uneducated old woman thinks about some murder case she has zero involvment in. My only option was to wait for my evening LOCAL news to come on and see the 5 minutes of international news they talk about - which sadly was 5 more minutes than I got after watching 30minutes of 4 full-time news organizations.
>>>>Set RANT OFF
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>>>>If anyone wants to make a million dollars - make a real news tv channel.
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>>>We've got a couple of unpleasant child murder cases going on here at the moment. The Guardian newspaper was advising that their reporter would be tweeting from one of the trials. Why would anyone need to be kept constantly up to date on something like that.
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>>Because they closed Tyburne?
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>Unfortunately because I'm against capital punishment I can't make willy nilly exceptions, as much as my gut feeling might like to.
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>Interestingly I looked up where tyburn was and its further west than I thought. I always imagined it being more in the city.
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>I've just finished a period of working by the Thames at Vauxhall where there is still a bollard used to tie up ships used to transport convicts to Australia. back in the good old days :-)

Now don't they just get sent to Kangaroo Valley (Do they still call Earl's Court that?)

I'm a big Bernard Cornwell fan and I have recently been re-reading Gallows Thief. They are trying to save a guy from hanging and hoping for transportation.

I have a friend, a musician, who works the resorts on the Gold Coast in Australia and right about now transportation would look pretty good to me.