Don't news reports love stories about the weather? The main headline on on countless BBC news reports is the "Big Freeze". It is reported as if we aren't aware of it. Called me old fashioned but isn't news supposed to INFORM us? I haven't seen the historical records but I do believe that it has snowed in the UK before. It snows at least once every winter. Yes, it has generally been heavier this year but should it really dominate the news? Do they say, for example,

"Something which happens every year has just happened again in parts of the UK."

I recently watched the superb satire of Chris Morris and his show "Brass Eye" from the late 90's. It was a fantastic portrayal of news obsessed with having correspondents "on the scene" that just repeat what we have just been told by someone in the studio; the childish use of graphics to illustrate the simple points; and the journalists as actors when they do their walks to camera. If you watched it now without knowing what it was it would probably look more like the actual news that the so-called serious journalism of the BBC and others.

I am not a journalist but I simply have to look out the window to see what the news is telling me. And I would be aware that it going to cause disruption. The "mainstream" news has reached the point of self-parody. The best satirists in the world couldn't do as good a job as the news itself.