In UK the press world is becoming far more competitive in the race to provide ever more avant-garde titillating, salacious, intrusive and offensive material which presses against the bounds of acceptability, truth, good taste, common decency and traditional journalistic ethics.
Cable television has arrived; tonight I will have a choice of 51 channels, but none of them will actually have anything on worth watching.
The general public is only too eager to read stories they claim to find distasteful.