Twitter and the internet mean we are blighted with over-communication.
The worst few have been blighted by cartoonish over-acting.
The siege at the Holey Artisan cafe was by far the deadliest in a string of attacks claimed by Islamist groups that have blighted Bangladesh over the past three years.
So while Playboy may have been the most high-profile police target, he was arguably little more than a prominent pawn in the violent drug wars that have blighted Rio over the last three decades.
"He's paid a heavy price for his commitment," Allardyce said of a player who has been blighted by injuries over the last 10 months.
Under Obama and Xi, US-China relations have been blighted by friction over issues such as the South China Sea, cyber espionage and, more recently, a planned missile defense system in South Korea.
The Asian Football Confederation president has been blighted by questions over his alleged involvement in a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in 2011, something he denies, when 150 athletes were reportedly detained in the country and some of them allegedly tortured.
"The authorities need to resolve such problems quickly and efficiently so that businesses are not affected, and lives not blighted, by worry over what will happen, when it will happen and how quickly compensation will arrive".
On the upside, takings surged an almighty 190% compared with the equivalent frame from 2010, which was blighted by studio caution over the competing World Cup football.
Gordon Brown did not make his first official visit there until a full decade after New Labour swept into power – and then it was blighted by a row over the alleged bullying of Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on Big Brother.
Ghana's World Cup campaign has already been blighted by a dispute over players' appearance fees.
