a little to the left, now up a bit. That's it.

I apologise for this interruption of otherwise wonderful silence from me, but something needs to be said.

There's been a terrorist attack in London this morning.

And how do you think the media might respond to this? Given they're a well oiled machine when it comes to milking Tragedy's udder until it bleeds it will perhaps come as no surprise to hear that they're tripping over themselves with excitement.

Turn on the television, if you can stand to. Note the giddy, last-day-at-school rush to present the devastation and, most importantly, the death toll. Some of them are visibly excited, some are pretending to look concerned while rubbing their hands together under the news desk, but they're all shit off their heads with collective enthusiasm.

You can almost imagine the conversations between producers on the floor:

"It's gotta be at least 40 dead - let's run with that!"
"But there have only been 2 confirmed, Ben!"
"Who gives a fuck, you know there'll be more and CNN are already saying 1,500!"
"Yeah, you're right. Go for 127 dead so far, thousands injured!"
"I love the smell of terror in the morning!"
"Yeah, me too, Dick!"

Perhaps it goes without saying, but this decade has seen a global decline in journalistic standards that, if continued, will see monkeys on keyboards writing editorials before 2010. Today does little to turn the tide.

If any of you attached to this gross abomination of mainstream journalism, that of hype and preying on misfortune, should ever stroll by this article, I want you to know:

1. Primarily, I think you're a rotten, soul-less creature worthy only of pity.
2. You do not deserve to be a citizen of my world.
3. Your vocation will not change the fact your parents did not love you enough.
4. Fuck you.
5. You drive this horror.
   
6. Karma will get to you in time.

You're winning, though, and I concede that. But that's OK. I have #6. #6 comforts me as I watch you dogs fight over misery and pain, continually misrepresenting the truth and perpetuating pain.

Unfortunately, if history is any guide, there will be consequences for this. Whether this comes in the form of anyone remotely Arabic-looking being vigorously persecuted for months to come, or yet another country being leveled from 30,000 ft with BLU-82's, it doesn't look good. For those souls affected, I feel all I can do is point you to #6. It's all you, and we, seem to have at this point in time.