* smooches *

I don’t know whether to laugh at Mat moaning to you about that… or cry about the fact that I’ve been bullied into following your command

Mike, it makes a change from all the talk about what women want that goes on between men at this site.

Sunny, for pete’s sake sort out comment notification, will you?I’ve had to put up with no end of moaning about how nobody had commented on his post, until he realised that they had and he just wasn’t getting notified…

Welcome to the team, dude.

Gee, thanks for explaining things to me, but I think even my feeble brain managed to grasp the point

I just wanted to point out, given the questions being asked of men, that this conversation was actually between two women. I happen to think that is relevant when statements are then made, on the basis of what passed between them, about what men want.

It suggests that somehow, because this interviewer chose to ask a dumb question, there is some need for to respond to vague questions about smothering and mothering!

Why make any assumptions at all about what men want based on a stupid question put by a not very bright interviewer to an even more gormless woman who, last time I looked, was going to stand by her disgusting, murderous partner she thought was innocent anyway?

@ Mike: The point isn’t that it was two women interviewing, it was that the question implies men should be absolved of responsibility for their actions, it’s always the women at fault: lack of sex at home? that’s an excuse for murder. Girl in revealingly short skirt? That’s an excuse for rape. Neither should be acceptable, but both are used, the latter both in rape trials and in religious texts.

Burley’s journalistic experience is long past – she’s spent most of her career as a talking head on downmarket channels. The fault is as much an editorial one as a presnetational one, but making Murdoch’s empire take news seriously? No chance.

It’s a closed loop – Sky News viewers get the news they want. Or deserve….

If, like me, you’re a bit of an aficionado of improvised comedy shows like the classic ‘Who’s Line is it Anyway’ or ‘Mock The Week’ then you’ll know that one of the staples of such shows is the ‘World&#82…

Unless I missed something wasn’t the interview conducted between two females?

What substance was there to the question? The idea that men who don’t get enough may decide to murder girls instead? How is any reponse more than speculation anyway, and how the hell is this informing anyone?

It’s the absolute definition of empty sensationalism. Come back real investigative journalists, all is forgiven.