Thoroughly bemused and at times angry, I watched TV reporters in snow and on the sides of streets commenting in all seriousness about the depth of snow in this area and the quality of sleet in that area and I asked myself what self-respecting journalist could possibly stand there and pretend they were breaking real news. How could anyone with even just half a brain in their head (never mind a degree from a UK university) face a camera and drone on as if they actually cared about snow and its effect on cars, pavements, roads, airports and various other infrastructure. And then I realised this is not really about the weather. The BBC is catering to a large section of the population with a snow fetish. This is weather pornography. And ordinary housewives and boring middle aged men are getting deliberately stranded on Britain's highways in the hopes that a camera crew will turn up and ask them to play a leading role in the latest movies being made daily in the burgeoning weather porn industry.