The news that it was Ryan Giggs at the centre of the Twitter campaign to undermine a super injunction was met in this house with indifference. Having considered it for a few minutes I've a couple of comments:
When you boil it down, the story is 'Married man sleeps with Woman.' He's not the first married man to break his marriage vows, won't be the last. So why is it news? It's news because he's a famous footballer. And thus his indiscretions are of importance to everyone - according to the media, anyway
But really, who cares? The media claim that the public care and that we lap up these sort of stories. But do we really? Or is it just that the media obsesses over these things and we all just get caught up in the storm?
I sometimes wonder what our European neighbours think of this English prurience. Surely the French and Spanish have better things to write about than who their sportsmen are knocking off.
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