I REMEMBER watching a documentary relating to 50 years of television news.

Initially, woman were not chosen to read the news as TV bosses feared they may weep on reading distressing news stories.

Obviously this was poppycock and some of the best reporters were women, such as Kate Adie.

While you would have thought that TV chiefs would have moved with the times, it was annoying to see warnings, after the 9pm watershed, relating to the coverage of Colonel Gaddafi’s last minutes before he went to hell.

The news is often unpleasant but the news is what it is, sometimes sad, sometimes funny and often distressing. However, as adults, after the watershed, we have a choice to watch or not to watch.

We certainly do not need a warning from over zealous interfering TV executives.

As for me, I was satisfied with the graphic coverage of the death of the tyrant.

After all, this man’s Semtex blew up a parade in Enniskillin and destroyed an aircraft over a Scottish town. It was good to see him get his come uppance at last.

This was a far more fitting end to his actions than to see him put on some sort of show trial while human rights groups pandered to his every whim.

I think that the world is now a much safer place to live thanks to whoever had the revolver in the crowd when they found their “rat”.

Mark Anderson, Middleton St George.