One of my pet hates in life is the garbage that gets an airing in local newspapers on the pretext of it being newsworthy. I like living in a town where nothing interesting happens so when a non-story is engineered it really annoys me.
Our local rag's headline story this week is about a "massive invasion of privacy" because the kids' playground can be seen in the distance of a webcam which is recording the redevelopment of a college building. For god's sake why don't small-minded busybodies go and concentrate on debt, famine and disease as something to actually worry about rather than live under some illusion that a ####### is going to be interested in a small moving dot on a webcam.
I think the whole scenario of some two-bit journo who can only dream of aspiring to hack voicemails of the rich and famous giving page space to such tripe should really re-think their career and do something useful. Tell you what, drop the hyped up silliness and stick an ad that actually does something for kids on their front page instead.