just let events play themselves out.

Web At the end of June, Everything Is Terrible appeared on Chicago's local television breakfast show and judging by their clips, it's an example of the web literally going viral and infecting mainstream broadcasting, especially in relation to the Jerry Maguire tapes. See if you can spot the moment when the anchors stop trying to understand and just let events play themselves out.

If our local equivalent, North West Tonight, was like this every night, I'd be more likely to make an appointment. As it stands, 6:30 each evening the potential audience stands witness to half an hour which seems designed to prove Werner Herzog's theory (in Grizzly Man) that "the common character of the universe is not harmony, but chaos, hostility, and murder."

Last night the whole programme was broadcast from the edge of a reservoir because of the water shortage, which largely consisted of shots of Ranvir Singh and Diane Oxberry precariously looking like they could fall into the blue at any moment. At no point would that not have been improved if an expert had been on hand dressed as an alien.