Isolation

[douglas9401]

The news, when it's finished beating us over the head with the message to stay at home and save lives, seem to think it's okay for their on-screen drones along with crew to trek to isolated beauty spots and show us how deserted they are.

Surely they immediately become the problem in their overwhelming need to show what an empty country road looks like.

Great play is made of six foot microphone poles keeping both parties at the prescribed distance but there's really no need for the journalist and crew to be there in the first place with their big city germs and all.

Maybe a period of furlough until something worth reporting on develops is in order.

[Zacs-Master]

If there isn’t anyone around them to catch their ‘big city germs’ (I’m not sure that’s even a thing) then what’s the issue?

[Tilly2]

Mr T's been muttering about the same thing all week, Douglas. Watching the news makes him really cross. I've stopped watching it.

[Spicerack]

Yeah. What's the big issue?

[iluvmargie]

I gave up watching the news yonks ago!

[aelmpvw]

does seem counter productive doesn't it? there are probably thousands who see a deserted beach on the news and think 'ooo , let's go there' ...

[Zacs-Master]

Yes, the fact that they’re ‘advertising’ these places could be seen as a downside but I’m not sure that’s the angle Doooogie was coming from.

[bhg481]

It's the same sort of situation as, say, when there is a famine in some foreign land and reporters are out there, eating the food, just to send us some pictures. The problem is if they didn't do that we wouldn't know there was a famine or how bad things were, so we wouldn't know they needed help. We need pictorial evidence of these sorts of situations, otherwise we don't believe it's really happening or how bad it is.

[ichkeria]

I also can't see the problem unless it's happening all the time, which would be silly. And I haven't seen any reports showing empty country roads, and I've watched the news a fair bit, so this sounds like a one off. I am happy to be proved wrong.

I'll be glad when we don't get old sporting events relayed as live any more who.

[TonyV]

Stupid people IMO, I've got lots to do in the garden and a fence panel to get some preservative on to.

[douglas9401]

Maybe it's more a BBC Reporting Scotland thing, ichkeria.
Last nights item was about the Northwest 500, some of the most remote and scenic roads in the country.

No irony was detected in the piece where they filmed signs erected by locals telling tourists and sundry gawpers to go home emphasising that supplies and services in remote areas cannot cope with the extra strain brought to bear by circumstances.

[douglas9401]

Now please don't think I'm ignoring anything that follows (if any), I'm off to work now.

[ladybirder]

I suppose if one couple are allowed to do it others will think they can go as well and the next thing ...

[Bobbisox1]

Must be very hard to put a sign up saying
THE LAKE DISTRICT IS CLOSED :0/

[royfromaus]

Minimal skills needed for that if you ask me.

[Bobbisox1]

Arh but putting it into practice is the thing Roy

[Bobbisox1]

Not sure how many entrances there are to the LD, I wonder if they’ve covered all of them?

[TonyV]

Think they have but some silly people are climbing over fences. Think police are intervening.

[jno]

I think they're mostly covering tourist spots, parks and beaches and suchlike, since those are the places that people get hyped up about. It's a win-win situation for them: it's newsworthy if they're crowded, it's newsworthy if they're empty.

[tomus42]

I'm just guessing but the news media probably count as key workers which is why they haven't been instructed to stop doing pointless outside broadcasts.

[derek-33]

your better off watching Al-Jazeera news not as much annoying uk news