Miss Kolka

When you work in international news, it seems that you are always covering the same stories - melting of polar ice-caps, middle east peace proces,repressing regimes, train bombings, deadly bird flu outbreaks, opposition protests and so on. When it comes to choose what is important news we seem formatted. We only "tick" to certain words when reading the wires (the raw source of information for news channels) and it is like every day is a follow up of what we've heard before. We completely ignore certain regions and the problem of television is also that we don't have time (or give ourself time) to go into complicated stories or explain something unfamiliar. I doubt the average viewer in Europe is interested in major business deals between China and African countries for example. How to make news more interesting? What a big question. Many news channels have begun to categorise news into segments such as "business", "international", "Celebrities" and so on. Thatcan maybe help but it makes news even drier than it already is.

And how is it that it always has to be about pain and death? About opression and torture by certain regimes (since western countries are always flawless in their warfare) Happy news doesn't really exist. Odd images of dogs in funny clothes or celebration pictures from Rio can be seen for a few secondes but apart from that news is majoritively bad news. So let me see how many died in the Baghdad bombing of the day and how many politicians have talked nonsense and promissed things that will never happen...

Yes that's right - at least 30 die in Baghdad while - 66 died on a train blast in India. Meanwhile Rice, Olmert and Abbas meet for talks in Jerusalem where everyone will agree on a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine, except that Hamas will not regognise Israel, the international community will not recognise the Hamas-led government and the fighting will go on. What's new under the sun? And why do we even bother?