Having successfully fought the car crash TV addiction so far, I have another problem. I'm addicted to the news. The bad news. The doom and gloom coming from BBC News 24 all day, every day as I sit here looking for work.
It can't be good for the soul. If it's not redundancies and company's going bust (Barratts shoes yesterday – where will I buy my winkle pickers now?), it's natural disasters like the tragic bush fires in Australia. And I can't turn it off.
I haven't mentioned this to anyone before because it seems kind of perverse. I should be listening to something more uplifting surely? But it's not just me. I read in a magazine that it's becomming an epidemic. Someone in New York has identified this and named it Pessimism Porn.
Gordon Brown and all those bankers – porn stars. Who'd have thought it?
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