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Sat 02 Feb 2009Have you nothing good to say?
PRESENT TENSE:YOU MAY have noticed that there’s been a lot of bad news of late. Every day. Most minutes of every day. It has, at times, reached almost bleakly comic proportions. As if you expected to wake up one of these mornings and hear that “a million jobs are to be lost because Minister for Finance Brian Lenihan forgot to carry the one”.
It has made watching or reading or listening to the news an often gruelling prospect. People regularly talk about being depressed by the news, as if they wouldn’t be so upset and annoyed and scared by the economy if they just didn’t watch the headlines, or maybe just turned it on for the “And finally. . .” bit about a tapdancing bear.
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