There Goes The Beeb Too

Trashy tabloid-style news - is that what we all want?

Here's the list of the most popular news of the hour - no, not on the Daily Mail website, but on the good old BBC International:

Girl, 15, found stabbed to death

Skydiving plane fails at 7,000ft

Kennedy brain surgery 'a success'

US sect children set to go home

French train crash kills children

BBC prides itself on its mix of analytical and factoidal news as thus they can "address all audiences [including imbeciles and illiterates]". Their Most Popular News pick is actually based on what pages people read the most. Day in, day out, from 3 to 5 headlines out of Top 5 would not be out of place on the Sun's front page.

The Beeb, the last bastion of sense and good taste has been brought down by our own hands clicking on the links to pseudo-news about crime, disasters, sex and glamour.