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Please give Clive Myrie half an hour on one of your digital platforms so he can anchor a sob-fest with close-ups of distressed health workers being close-upped to tears and leave the six o'clock news for news.
That item was like watching the worst of American reality guff.
Shameless.
That item was like watching the worst of American reality guff.
Shameless.
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//Covid is a war and the intensive care unit is the front line. Of course they're reporting on it.//
They're not reporting on it. They're making an industry of it.
//We’d have been out of this nightmare far quicker if more people watched it and took heed,..//
The problem is that the virus can only be stopped if people are kept away from each other. Many people work in situations where they cannot do so however much they might "watch it and take heed."
They're not reporting on it. They're making an industry of it.
//We’d have been out of this nightmare far quicker if more people watched it and took heed,..//
The problem is that the virus can only be stopped if people are kept away from each other. Many people work in situations where they cannot do so however much they might "watch it and take heed."
//There isn't much good news out there.//
No but there's plenty of news other than hospitals. None of it is being reported.
Hang on! Hold the front page! I've just been watching the latest "news". There was something else. It took about fifteen minutes to inform us what was going to happen in Washington tomorrow. I gave up when the scene was four people standing by the side of a pond whilst a black woman sung some dirge.
No but there's plenty of news other than hospitals. None of it is being reported.
Hang on! Hold the front page! I've just been watching the latest "news". There was something else. It took about fifteen minutes to inform us what was going to happen in Washington tomorrow. I gave up when the scene was four people standing by the side of a pond whilst a black woman sung some dirge.
> They're not reporting on it. They're making an industry of it.
That makes no sense.
When Kate Adie and John Simpson were reporting from the front lines of various wars around the world over the last forty years or so, did you moan as vociferously then that there was plenty of other news we could be watching?
Here is a war right within our community. Of course the BBC is reporting on it.
That makes no sense.
When Kate Adie and John Simpson were reporting from the front lines of various wars around the world over the last forty years or so, did you moan as vociferously then that there was plenty of other news we could be watching?
Here is a war right within our community. Of course the BBC is reporting on it.
//How do you know there is lots of other news, if it's not being reported?//
Because, incredible as it may seem, there are sources other then the BBC.
Let's forget about the excessive coverage. Do you think it's right that camera crews should be roaming round the country filming inside various hospitals, particularly their ICUs? Bear in mind that hospitals are one of the worst places for transmission of the disease.
Because, incredible as it may seem, there are sources other then the BBC.
Let's forget about the excessive coverage. Do you think it's right that camera crews should be roaming round the country filming inside various hospitals, particularly their ICUs? Bear in mind that hospitals are one of the worst places for transmission of the disease.
Diddly, //How some people on here regard the BBC as "left-wing" just beggars belief. They have been peddling the government propaganda all through this pandemic.//
Has it occurred to you that the reason you think this government is doing such a rotten job could well be because you watch the BBC news? Just a thought. ;o)
DTC, // It's why I watch Channel 4 - a much more balanced view of what is going on.//
That’ll be the News programme anchored by that stalwart of impartiality then - you know, Jon Snow, the man who declared ‘*** the Tories’ and when reporting at a pro-Brexit protest said that he had "never seen so many white people in one place". Balanced? Only if your scale is broken.
Has it occurred to you that the reason you think this government is doing such a rotten job could well be because you watch the BBC news? Just a thought. ;o)
DTC, // It's why I watch Channel 4 - a much more balanced view of what is going on.//
That’ll be the News programme anchored by that stalwart of impartiality then - you know, Jon Snow, the man who declared ‘*** the Tories’ and when reporting at a pro-Brexit protest said that he had "never seen so many white people in one place". Balanced? Only if your scale is broken.
//I gave up when the scene was four people standing by the side of a pond whilst a black woman sung some dirge//
You mentioned the colour of the singer and a think you used the right term (or should it of been woman of color) as if it was unusual but didnt mention the colour of the four people standing beside the pond.
Any particular reason ?
You mentioned the colour of the singer and a think you used the right term (or should it of been woman of color) as if it was unusual but didnt mention the colour of the four people standing beside the pond.
Any particular reason ?
She was a black woman and I mentioned it because she was black (the same way I might have said "she was a tasty blonde"). I couldn't see the others because they had their backs to the camera looking at the pond and they ere wearing overcoats. I can't keep up with the terms black people prefer to be used to identify their skin colour and I've no intention of trying.
Exactly, both dave and naomi.
As I mentioned, when skipping through last night's propaganda I noticed a scene from a mortuary. Everybody knows people are dying. Everybody who wants to knows that they often end up in a mortuary. Quite what was gained (other than propaganda to scare viewers witless) by showing such scenes I don't know. I wouldn't mind if it was simply put out under the banner of propaganda: "Here's tonight's government information programme. This is what will happen to you, folks, if you don't obey the rules!" But showing you round High Dependency Units and mortuaries is not news.
As I mentioned, when skipping through last night's propaganda I noticed a scene from a mortuary. Everybody knows people are dying. Everybody who wants to knows that they often end up in a mortuary. Quite what was gained (other than propaganda to scare viewers witless) by showing such scenes I don't know. I wouldn't mind if it was simply put out under the banner of propaganda: "Here's tonight's government information programme. This is what will happen to you, folks, if you don't obey the rules!" But showing you round High Dependency Units and mortuaries is not news.
