We're Doomed.

Now ginger nutter, Raoul Moat has blown his twisted brains out on live TV, what have I learnt? Well, I have learnt that gallows humour is alive and well on Twitter and is very funny.

I have also learnt that our media will do anything to feed an ever increasing public appetite for voyeurism. Much of the news media is already rolling about in the gutter and about as serious as "OK" and "Nuts." Let's get out the flags and celebrate - it is now fine to show a man, labelled an evil nut-job, shooting his face off. Just like it is fine to watch any number of people, with mental health problems and addictions, torch their lives because it is packaged as entertainment, disguised as news.

"Well you made jokes at Moat's expense," I hear you say. Yes I did - he looked like a fucking potato for Christ's sake and titted about playing hide and seek with thousands of hacks and cops for 7 days. He was a thoroughly nasty piece of work and needed to be locked up - the whole sordid story was begging for some piss taking and I couldn't help myself. Double standards? I don't think so. Many of the sick pranksters on Twitter are taking the piss, and maybe taking cheap shots (no pun intended) but they are not pretending to do or be anything else.

I am sick enough to laugh at almost anything, but what I can't stand is the endless rolling news scraping the the depths of human misery, sensationalising it and vomiting it up as entertainment. I don't want the news full of interviews with anyone with an arsehole, giving their take on the matter. I don't want shots of roads Moat might have walked down or houses he had a cuppa in, described in sinister tones. If they had found his shit would they have shown that? Don't worry, I can cope with news that isn't turned into a freak show. I'm a reader and don't need someone to draw me a sensationalised, distorted picture, I can do that in my own head thanks.

Filming his last moments alive and probably his death was not needed, I have an imagination. If you tell me a man is sitting on the ground with a shotgun at his chin, surrounded by armed police - I can kinda work out what that may look like. And hey, I can always watch the miniseries when it comes out if I really am incapable of creating an image of a very angry potato in my head. Thankfully they haven't broadcast the actual moment he was pumped full of electricity and blasted his brains over nearby cops - but I am sure a pixelated version is on the way.

So rolling media, take your ghoulish obsession with trying to titillate us with your news porn and fuck off and die. Luckily I didn't see Sky news, but it is a shame the cops didn't taser the scrot sack of the scum that sat in the tree filming. I would pay to see that and laugh out loud as he twitched and fizzed like cheap firework.

Next time we get a dangerous, disturbed violent lunatic on the loose, let's catch him, wind him up and put him in the Big Brother house.... Now that really would be entertaining. It would also be another step closer to live executions on Telly - which I fear are coming like a bullet from a marksman's rifle. We're Doomed - but you have have to laugh, well I do.