I've stopped watching coverage of the Japan earthquake and tsunami.  Endless reruns of images of destruction interspersed with ignorant, ill-informed and factually incorrect nonsense about nuclear "meltdown". But I have decided to keep an eye out for the first day the disaster fails to be the number one story in the papers and then for the day it fails to feature at all.

Remember the 2004 Indonesian tsunami? The one that killed over a quarter of a million people? Try Googling it. Apart from two Wikipedia entries you'll find that a restaurant in Clapham, south London, named "Tsunami", gets a higher rank than any mention of the 2004 disaster.

And the next big story please.