The more I read about crime and the picturesque lives of the criminal classes, the less I want to know about these things.
The key messages to emerge from these "news stories" seem to be these:
* Criminals are very dull, unimaginative and unpleasant people whom one would pay good money not to know.
(Come to think of it, we do pay good money not to know them. Most of what we spend through our taxes on the Police and all of what it costs to run the judicial/prison system has the objective of ensuring that we have as little contact with these people as possible. But I digress...)
* Most crime is pretty much the same, from one day to the next. It's only the nouns that change.
(Of course, there is the occasional exception. The "news story" which prompted this particular thread was about an ambulance driver who raped someone he was taking to hospital. This is in New Zealand, mark you - not Afghanistan, South Africa or Columbia. But I digress again...)
Given that this is so, why can't we have a page, or pages, or even a whole section (at the back; at the very back) of our newspapers devoted to the criminal fraternity, and leave the rest of the paper to reports of non-criminal or only partly-criminal activity, like the behaviour of the Labour Party?
Then we could use that page, or those pages, or that section, to wrap some rubbish in, and throw it away.
So why can't this be done?
I think I should be told.
From the Christchurch Press comes a saga of a family whose members appear to be taking turns at killing people. But is the real news story this account of one of them being caught? Or is it why they have been brought up to behave like this?
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