One year ago today Covering the Coverage of the Boston Marathon bombings: Hilary "Chartgirl" Sargent breaks down the highs and lows of the media coverage of this week's attacks in Boston. Five years ago today JG Ballard eulogized by John Clute: His late novels never flinch from addressing the "elective psychopathy" that increasingly riddles the anaesthetised world we are now beginning to inhabit.