Are We Reaching A Tipping Point For 'outrage'

[sp1814]

Seriously - read this story and gauge how outraged you are.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2433055/Fighting-umbrellas-staff-picking-nose-Viewers-outrage-antics-BBC-News-workers-presenters-broadcast.html

So - after looking at the pictures, on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being completely chilled and 10 being 'foaming at the mouth' - how outraged are you?

Do Daily Mail readers live in a constant state of fury?

[sandyRoe]

I dare not look at the link in case it induces an apoplectic fit.

[chrissa1]

I wouldn't say I was outraged but I've often wondered what they are all doing. At their computers, I mean.

[LazyGun]

-5?

[sandyRoe]

Chrissa1, they're answering questions here in AB. What else?

[ummmm]

I don't even notice them.

[chrissa1]

Lol, sandy.

[jno]

I'm sure people who write in to complain are really just boasting about the resolution they get on their HD screens.

[Arksided]

10... how dare they! I'm writing a stern letter to the Beeb.

[Ric.ror]

Not really but I guess if the news item is a really sensitive one it could seem a little inappropriate
The BBC should really have had a little more sense though

[andy-hughes]

Zero - because I never notice the background images, i am usually listening to what is being said, and watching the VT (that stands for videotape!) being played.

I don't see the point of having a 'live' background anyway - i am sure it is supposed to add to the general feeling of new being gathered as it happens - but it's not reaching me, and i suspect not many others apart from those looking to be 'outraged'.

[Bazile]

I'm only outraged when it's as serious as this




http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_kYEtzd2ogGs/TH60s_y_9QI/AAAAAAAABdA/4lhbQ_06YZA/s1600/Tomasz%2BSchafernaker.jpg&;imgrefurl=http://japingape.blogspot.com/2010/09/moving-finger-writes.html&h=364&w=570&;sz=59&tbnid=Fn1S8orbnaZS8M:&tbnh=90&tbnw=141&zoom=1&usg=__xak3WG64yeFrb8vaYbmjqhTV3UA=&docid=xIcROAUK0kYD8M&sa=X&ei=dkVEUvmQHMfX4AT9uYGICw&;ved=0CEAQ9QEwBA

[jno]

ideally, at least your first two words would be not sweary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd8SJlvfrlA

[Sqad]

5.........very undisciplined and unprofessional.

[bednobs]

no need to be outraged - the mail can do that on my behalf :)

[boxtops]

Do you know - I never take a blind bit of notice about what's going on behind the presenter. Never crossed my mind to focus on backstage.

[Bazile]

I once saw Tommy Cooper walking behind the presenter

[pixie373]

That's funny. I do feel sorry for those employees though, to be working so publicly. However, i vote for more umbrella fights. It would cheer the News up a bit.

[Svejk]

Oh, the irony.

[ToraToraTora]

why are they even visible?

[Old_Geezer]

I'm a 12 at the BBC thinking the best background is a news office full of folk forgetting they are in a goldfish bowl and providing a distraction to the serious business of informing us of the news. We need peaceful landscape scenes to counteract the stress the news stories.