Just saw the tackiest virtual set imaginable on ITV news. A word of explanation: because filming, or photography in general, is not allowed in British courtrooms, the media have to resort to all sorts of tricks to illustrate their stories: hand drawn portraits, footage of people going in and coming out of courtrooms, and now this.

So what was so bad about it? Well, it was ugly and worthless. The reporter walked in the virtual courtroom for just a couple of seconds to point out ”where the defendant stood”. Now, the room was a flashback to computer games of the early 1990s: a hastily assembled 3D model of a generic courtroomish flavour with blocky shapes of solid colour. And all this just to push totally noninteresting news.