21/07/2013
He's not going to get many comments
this week. The climate change "angels on the head of a pin" brigade will have to make do with the
Guardian, and the UKIP supporters have only the
Bruges Group story to pick the bones from.
For the rest, it is the PMOI â the Iranian refugee story that no one wants to know about - and the stolen kids with an international dimension, another story that the media really doesn't want to know about. In fact, add the Bruges Group, and you have three tales that weren't going to find a home in any of the Sunday papers, making the Booker column the obvious place for them.
I suppose that makes the column the media's conscience, although the hacks wouldn't see it that way. They have all the
really important stories to cover, and haven't room for the sort of dross Booker goes in for.
Thus, you'll not have to waste too much time reading all the news that wasn't fit to print. It's not been done by the pack, so once you've read it in Booker, you won't be troubled by it elsewhere. One imagines though, if a "real" journalist had run any of the stories, they would have splashed it with "exclusive" tags, preening themselves on how clever they were. For Booker, it's just routine.
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