> But that's not the worst possible thing about TV news reporting. I hope and pray that no U.S. president will ever again be assassinated, or otherwise die in office. I could not go through another 24-hour-a-day, 7-day-a-week obsession with reporting on that and every possible ramification to the exclusion of virtually everything else, and going over and over the same stuff until you want to scream.

Of course we had virtually a whole week of Diana, so I sympathise. Sad as I was, the wall to wall news reporting didn't help. My partner in life was in the USA for coverage of the bomb that went off in Oklahoma. He was amazed at the highly repetitive and intrusive coverage which went on for days and days.