How is it that on a week in which it snows in the UK there appears to be no other news. Leading up to the appointed day of snow there is major focus on the weather reports, often as the main story, followed up with reports from gritting depots, will there be enough? Will it be gritted in time?
Once it snows we get the constant report after report on traffic disruption, snowfall region by region and the mandatory 'cute' pictures of children in the snow, snowmen and pets struggling with the weather.
Do we not have anything better to talk about? Is there not more important world news stories going on? If they reported to this extent every time it snowed in countries such as Finland they would not get round to anything else. This weather is not headline news. Maybe it could be the third or fourth piece, but should we not be focusing more on the Armenian hostage situation, or Lance Armstrong's prolific drug taking, even the devastating fire at my local pub.
Sorry to be a bah humbug but snow should not take a priority over actual life and death.
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