Les Battersby (from Coronation Street) being interviewed by Piers Morgan (from hell) about his discovery of Jean Jordan's (victim of the Yorkshire ripper) mutilated and disemboweled corpse. A very strange dialogue between real and unreal, natural and synthetic. It makes me want to hurl the computer across the room, watching Morgan's flat, aborted lifeless excuse for a face - just mutedly absorbing the horrors drifting out of Bruce Jones's mouth - as he lethargically deems the details of this poor man's terrifying story as at best perhaps - 'gripping and fascinating'. Wow, thanks Piers. You are a true journalistic luminary.
Buried horror and cultural truth just crashing - limply and without affect - into the unfeeling, unreal contours of Piers Morgan's head.
And so at the end of it we are given a truly bizarre intertextual landscape of image - of Les Battersby discovering an icy pale, murdered body dumped and concealed on a piece of manchester waste ground - a portion of hell found concealed somewhere at the back of Granada studios. And then we are in front of the court. Staring out through the overlit, barreled tunnel vision of Piers Morgan's X factor eyes - glinting in front of the camera.
Fictions and truths colliding in psychosis.
And this all happens to be occurring the same year that David Peace begins to seep into Britain's unconscious via a smug channel four drama.
"Everybody knows - everybody knows - everybody knows -" - David Peace - Nineteen Eighty Three
