Not thinking…

In the days of formulaic media coverage of virtually everything, many people react emotionally, or automatically to certain questions or circumstances, two recent examples:

It’s the first day of Wimbledon, and the BBC ask the traditional “Can Time Henman win Wimbledon” question. (No, he can’t.) Now this year he’s not seeded, so that should tell you all you need to know, but manfully, the BBC press on:

Interviewer: Do you think not being seeded helps Tim this year as there will be less pressure?
Jeremy Bates: Yes, I do, I think he’ll do really well this year.

He has Federer in round 2.

Second, some drone “NHS Chair of the Rochdale hospital” (or somewhere up north) resigned because she doesn’t like private sector involvement in healthcare. “People shouldn’t make profits out of sickness”

Why the fuck not? Does she object to Siemens who make some of the best MRI scanners making a profit, does she object to virtually every drug company who research and invest in new lifesaving treatments, or the people who supply uniforms to the nurses, or the people who build the hospitals, or the power company who supply electricity? It’s this mindless “no profits” attitude that really stops us from providing the best possible healthcare.

And please, this “argument” that company profits mean less to invest in the product, ergo a worse product have yet to explain why profit making Mercedes, made a car so much better than “non-profit making” Trabant?