If the riots were a genuine protest against the cuts, bankers, unemployment, fuel and food prices, inequality etc you could understand it, at least to some degree. But they're not. It's just a bunch of mindless morons wrecking and looting because they think they can get away with it. There's lots to be disgusted about the mess this country is in and the way most ordinary people are being shafted. You would hope this would manifest itself as mass *peaceful* protests (or at least peaceful in intent, extremists usually try and hijack things). But no, crap Britain gets a crap revolt with selfish twats looting shops. One thing we do still have in this country (for now at least) is freedom of speech and a right to peaceful protest. The looters should be utterly and completely ashamed of themselves for putting this under threat. Morons.
And yep, 24/7 media isn't helping. It is just fanning the fire. There's a difference between the media being censored and the media showing some restraint so as not to inflame the situation or cause panic.