mercredi 9 janvier 2008

[OLD BLOG; IMPORTED POST] "News" and "cricket"

11:10 pm, 9/1/08,

TODAY'S TOP 10 ARTICLES

  1. Clinton slays Obama in crucial New Hampshire race
  2. Cricket chiefs wilt under fire
  3. Crash threat as Qantas jet loses power
  4. Testy tourists must now get back to work
  5. Sarkozy hints at marrying 'man tamer' supermodel
  6. McGrath slams Bucknor axing
  7. Black day for cricket when we walk away
  8. Bucknor's head served up on a platter
  9. Dead and no-one noticed for a year
  10. Arrogant Ponting must be fired
(from the Sydney Morning Herald)

Six out of the ten top articles  for today concern the latest India-Australia test and the corresponding controversy. It's just one @$^%# game in a whole series, for god's sake!

The  no. 9 story today hit me, to borrow an expression from cricket, for six. I don't live in a unit, but I do live in the same council, and the fact that a man was left to die worries me.