House price shock, shock

Noticed the Evening Standard's billboard today said 'House price collapse shock' or words to that effect.

Shock? Who's shocked? The media seems so keen to talk us into a recession and/or house price slump that it isn't shocking at all.

Guess you have to sell newspapers somehow. Especially when you're losing readers to freesheets which, while drivel, seem to be what people are grabbing on their way home.

On that subject - why on earth do people insist on leaving copies of Metro and whatnot all over tube stations. At Old Street, commuters constantly dump them at the bottom of the escalator - despite announcements asking them not to. What on earth is wrong with them? Why do they think that's a reasonable place to leave a discarded newspaper?

Cretins, I'm afraid.