Tis the Season for Best of Everything Lists
This time of the year, news dry up all of a sudden. Isn’t that weird?
Throughout the year criminals do their thing, politicians do their thing, the stockmarkets go up and down, celebrities do what they do, inventors create new things – leaving us saturated with news.
Come December – whether in the icy cold northern hemisphere or sun drenched, sweltering Southern Hemisphere, news stories become more frivolous.
Like clockwork, the nearer we get to the end of year, the less substantial news becomes, instead out comes the dreaded Top Best of/Worst of Lists of everything under the sun. For a news junkie this is bad news!
One list that annoys me more than most- probably because it’s local – is from the Sunday Times who once again show their bias against the ANC with their Mampara of the Year list. I could think of a certain former Sunday Times columnist and the usual controversial people rugby offers up each year who could have joined Julius Malema and Thabo Mbeki on that list, but of course the Sunday Times editorial team doesn’t have any scores to settle with them.
Thanks CapeTalk for rousing me from my holiday chilled mode for mentioning this one, because the Sunday Times won’t find me navigating my way to their rag on my own!
Fortunately the silly season lasts for a few weeks before the next news cycle start.
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