Brits hunger for thrills

After a week of fleeing the British police, suspected murderer Raoul Moat took his own life. The left-liberal Sunday newspaper The Observer sees it as an expression of the British public's hunger for sensational news that the TV cameras doggedly followed the hunt right to the end: "It's too pat to blame the news media. They are merely feeding the 'public interest' monster - a ravenous, impatient, rubbernecking creature. In a way, that seems almost too tidy. It seems to be this very part of us that feeds the 'death and glory' monster presumably lurking inside poor, deluded sods such as Moat, making all those fantasies about being the centre of attention, the big scary guy with the gun, come true. ... Whatever else was happening on Friday evening, we have to accept that, for a time, Moat's sickness met our sickness and we were locked together in a deathly embrace, broken only by adverts."

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