Has the Dirty Digger lost the plot?

The end of the Jackson trial has also ended Sky News’ self-immolation.

For almost the whole period it abandoned its early evening news transmissions, preferring to broadcast live from the court from 5.30 p.m. to 11.30 p.m. The inevitable outcome of this would have been massive flight to BBC, C4 or ITN. There is a very strong likelihood that these viewers will not come back. We used to watch Sky 6 o’clock news, but we switched to the Beeb. It is vastly superior.

So what possessed Sky to do this? Did it seriously imagine that anyone other incurable saddos were in the least interested? Did we not have to put up  with a nauseating surfeit of gut-churning, toe-curling, sick-making, maudlin grunge when this weirdo went to meet his Maker? I had Jacko marked down as a Bad Influence when I saw my 8-year old grandson cavorting around with his hand grasping his crotch in imitation of  Wacko’s stance.  He seemed to spend his adult life trying to become a honky and ended up as a freak. What’s to like?

It does make one wonder if News International has been afflicted with institutional insanity. We are still going through the phone hacking farce, with MPs, none of whom could lie straight in bed, coming over all indignant when it seems like only yesterday they were fawning over the Dirty Digger and vying with each other to get the OBN from him.

And we now hear that his red-headed understrapper spent a wad on gumshoes to spy on – well – just about everybody of significance, including Fl. Lt W. Wales. What filth did they expect to expose? As a result, one of our great institutions, the NOTW, is no more, the only paper that exposed the Pakistani cricket fraud although what was going on stuck out like a greyhound’s gonads.

Of course the MPs had to go and blow it by being as vulgar as the aforesaid NOTW, calling the Crown Prince ‘the only mafia boss in history not to know that he was running a criminal  institution’ under the protection of Parliamentary privilege. Not exactly Parliamentary language, but we no longer expect any standards from our legislators. But it let Young James off the hook!

My guess is that NI will get out of the print media altogether, except that the huge losses on the Times especially enable NI to set-off against tax via their tax shelter in Delaware.

Of course, there will be those who will say ‘Frankly, my dear, I couldn’t give a damn. The problem is that NI has long been a blue chip, and will be the repository of large pension fund investments.