I am complaining about so many members of the public weeping in interviews and programmes on TV and radio. I don't blame these people, of course, but it seems that interviewers and producers regard such emotion as 'TV/radio gold' and almost set out to make someone cry. They certainly seem to select weepy extracts when editing footage.
The practice seems to have increased over the last 20 years or so and makes me feel embarrassed and uncomfortable. Perhaps, though, it is a good thing that I should be shaken out of comfort and complacency.
However, I do think it's overdone on the news and in programmes such as The Repair Shop and Who Do You Think You Are?
Some of you may be old enough to remember the national headlines (in the 1960s?) when Gilbert Harding broke down on live TV when interviewed by John Freeman. Nowadays it's an everyday occurrence. How the media would have loved to catch Her Majesty Queen in tears at her husband's funeral! The whole business is just too intrusive.