Is the entire world creating no news at the moment?

[Thatcherite]

The reason I ask is that it seems that Savillegate is swamping the system. Even the presidential election is reduced to a 30sec clip and a ticker. Is anyone else getting mightily bored with this?

[woofgang]

suprised at this, I have seen quite long clips of the pres debates, Cameron not hugging a hoody, the tail end of the "policeman called a pleb" thing......loadsof other stuff.

[ichkeria]

Try watching some news stations other than the BBC then
Or, there's this:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world/

[Mick-Talbot]

How exactly do you create 'no news'?

[jno]

the current angle on Savile is the BBC's coverage of him - ie, how news gets to you, or how it's prevented from doing so. So it's a kind of meta-news story and thus pretty important.

The story about Savile himself is still rumbling along in the background too.

[Mick-Talbot]

Actually, I'm listening to Entwistle on sky ......he is trying his best to create 'no news' .....it seems he knows flump all about the workings of the BBC.

[Graham-W]

And the search for April Jones hardly gets a mention after only 3 weeks.

[Ric.ror]

What I find strange is the fact that Mr Entwistle or whatever he is called seems to be getting the flack for this when he has only been in the job two minutes - and the allegations only re-surfaced a few weeks ago - hardly time for anyones role to be investigated throughly

[ummmm]

Graham...it always goes quiet after a suspect has been charged.

[friedgreentomato]

There is loads of other news what channel are you watching? If its Sky they will go with the most high profile

[sp1814]

Thatcherite

There have been a large number of news stories about the media over the past few years (hacking, Levinson, News Of The World closing, Saville and the BBC, The Sun and Hillsborough).

Almost like the media is feeding it self. News cannibalism?

[Mick-Talbot]

Orgreave ^^

[Thatcherite]

For mick, "creating no news" = "not creating news" does that help?

[Mick-Talbot]

Not really.

[DTCwordfan]

Savile - important to reveal but, yes, a yawn. What gets me is that the BBC News yesterday were almost using it as an advert for Panorama.......

Listen to R4 for a wider news.

[Mick-Talbot]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world


You should find something of interest here, Thatcherite.

[jackthehat]

........or here...

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/

[EDDIE51]

This story is a journalists dream come true . Never in their wildest dreams could they have believed there would ever be a story like this. We will see nothing else for months. 90% of the British public don't give a damn about the US president but they all love to be horrified at stories of child abuse.
I know an ex sub editor of the Daily Mirror, he told me that getting the word 'paedophile' or similar in a front page headline guarantees at least 50,000 extra sales and extra sales means not only extra income immediately but they can charge more for adverts. This story is a massive finacial boost for the newspapers there will be plenty of rounds of drinks being bought over this.