0019 Supabug Of The Mind

There’s an infectious bug racing through the British meeja especially TV and radio, corrupting every interview, reducing interviewers and viewers to mindlessness and no-one notices, no-one tries to stop it: H.O.W. ‘How pleased are you to have won this match? ’ or ‘How sorry are you to have lost this fight? ’ That’s on a scale of…? In the legal profession, that’s known as a ‘leading question’ – as in ‘How sorry are you to have killed your wife? ’ ‘Hey, wait a minute, mate, I din’ kill ‘er, I fort this was menna be a cor’ a law…? ’ They’re all infected – in a mere matter of a month or two.. What are you supposed to answer? The incompetent interviewers leave their poor victim - modest, proud, speechless - squirming on the hook – how are they supposed to answer? ‘Well, not particularly pleased, since he was an under-achieving also-ran that my manager picked for this fight as his last pay-cheque before retiring and to boost my ratings and my managers’ ten-per…’ ‘Well, not particularly sorry, since my manager says the rematch will bring in even more dosh and it’s a sure thing and paid for that I’ll beat him…’ * * * So how pleased are you to be alive to read this useful heads-up, - on a scale, say, of Genesis to Revelation?