'News Desert' Island

The Manx media is banal at present. I’ve banged the chops in (Manx lamb of course) and have an hour to fill so go in search of news but there is none. Manx Radio is full of something called the Festival of Motoring which consists of sheep looking at empty roads. I ponder that Tim Glover is probably doing the equivalent of Gene Hackman's ‘cold turkey’ in the French Connection and screaming: ‘Get PAG, Travelwatch….anything’.

I’m not bothering with MTTV as I save that now for ‘the great mans’ weekly outings and IOM Today are reprising ‘the Children of Lir’ with the population of the Isle of Man turning to withered old farts after wandering as Swans for 900 years. I look in the mirror!

Perhaps something at Crown Dependency News - surely the creme de la creme of social media - but no. Eddie Power seems to be recycling obscure items like 'BBC Greater Manchester' wittering on about Dunkirk (not again) and some play in Castletown called ‘Nightmare Nights’ - that has to star Jason Moorhouse MHK.

Eddie generally has a smattering of my witterings as well which is generous. Then I recall he remarked in an email recently he is doing his own version of Michelangelo in the Sistine Chapel i.e. a bit of house painting.

I can’t face another look at the Chamber of Commerce (CoC) website as I’m just recovering from the wave of nausea it induced yesterday. Nothing for it the bookshelf beckons.

Here’s a couple of links defo not including the CoC website:

https://www.facebook.com/crowndependencypoliticalnews/
https://www.manxradio.com/news/

Image: Me berating the TT in the days before I stopped caring and became ‘hyper-aged’!

Bernard Moffatt