Post 474. REALITY TELEVISION

 A 21st CENTURY CANKER

ON A PAR WITH THE STATE OF OUR RIVERS.
What brought this on? Well, we have just received a missive from Southern Water telling us that our payment to them is going up yet again and will be close on £700 p.a. from 1 June 2023. This for a commodity that abundantly falls from the sky (ask anybody in Fort William) at no base cost whatsoever. In 1989 the water companies in England and Wales were privatised.
In 2020/21 the CEO of Southern Water was paid more than £1 million despite the fact that the company had been fined £126 million in 2019 for over 50 breaches of environmental law.
The above picture shows shit being shot into a British river. There is now barely an unpolluted spot left. Rivers, the sea, and many beaches are equally contaminated. Private enterprise? Huh!
REALITY TELEVISION.
No need to name names. You only have to watch the majority of the programmes that Gogglebox (Channel 4) regulars are required to watch. They're paid to watch it. I'm not. Just as well. I like most of the Goggleboxers, they're a good laugh, but I dislike just about every aspect of reality TV including most of its presenters  I give it a wide berth. None of my business that some unfamiliar celebrity wants to do silly things in a jungle, that a randy publicity hungry teenager is prepared to bed another randy publicity hungry teenager on television, or that somebody I do not know can cook, sew, dance, or be a good loser. And why do gay (black, white, or sandy-grey-russet) couples feel such a desperate need to be married in front of television cameras? Ah well.
It will soon be time for The Proms again.

Even with modern music that's real television. 

    
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