Red Tops - won't someone please stop them!

Right. Grab some popcorn. This is a big rant.

Even though I'm not following news etc I couldn't miss the shooting of the reporter and the cameraman this morning. It is terrible.

But what are people like?

I mean, the reason I couldn't miss it is because seemingly half the population of Facebook were determined to share it. I lost count of the number of posts that told me how horrible it was and how disturbing but at the same time posting a link with "watch the moment the gun man strikes!"

Why do people need to see this? I mean you know she and her co-worker are shot dead. Why watch it? What possible reason could you have to watch the moment someone dies?

Now, through a tweet, I caught a glimpse of some Red Top papers front covers for tomorrow.

Ladies & Gentlemen - just when I thought these terrible, despicable, reader-hungry gutter merchants couldn't possibly sink any lower into the mire of putrid filth that they merrily wallow in... Well they bloody well have.

For the love of humanity and for the sake of your own sanity....if you buy these shit peddlers please, please stop.

For the thousandth time they have forgone all sense of decency and flew right past any semblance of respect for the families of the deceased and printed the absolute worst pictures possible.

I despair, I really despair if this is what we are as a society.

And I despair because I know that the hungry, voyeuristic people will lap up the pictures, freeze frames & BIG BLACK LETTERS tomorrow morning while the producers sit back, rub their grubby little hands and scour the world for their next prey.

Scumbags. Every one of them.

I'm actually shaking with adrenaline fuelled hatred for each and every one of them right now.

How dare they.