I am so angry........

Does anyone else feel insulted by the magazines on offer at some hairdressers or beauticians? Nothing worth reading just scandal mags such as 'Hello' and 'OK'?

I always feel uncomfortable when a TV interviewer will push a microphone in the face of someone who has just lost a child/relative or had some other traumatic experience and asks the stupid question "how do you feel".

I remember some years ago watching a programme about children who were shipped off to Australia and an Australian reporter was talking to a man who said he had been told his mother had died and it was only as a adult that he found out he had been lied to and by the time he traced her she had passed away. At that point he broke down and instead of the camera zooming in on his face which is what would happen with UK TV the interviewer lowered the microphone, put is hand on the mans shoulder and the camera was turned away.

My hair dresser, not an upmarket one has Elle, Bazaar and Homes and Gardens. Full of ludicrously expensive but, at the moment oh so beautiful clothes and accessories.

I felt very uncomfortable seeing the photographs, taken at the funeral, of the tragic father of the family who died in that house fire. I do not think that reportage of funerals should have any closeups of the family mourners.

Hi flick. My new hairdresser has much better mags, like the ones you mention. My point is someone must be buying these magazines, sensational newspapers, etc. and it's the 'general public'. So they are to blame equally. So many GNetters seem not to buy newspapers, or at least not the trashy tabloids, but someone is. I remember an old lady who used to live next door, a sweet old lady who'd do anything for you, but she was always full of the latest nasty shoe biz gossip. And it's only a short step for there to obtrusive reporting on family tragedies.