Curiouser and Curiouser! on news-coverage http://matt.blogs.it/ RSS feed for topic news-coverage Copyright 2006 Matt Mower Squib/0.1 self@mattmower.com self@mattmower.com en-gb And I'm sick of the BBC coverage already Thu, 07 Jul 2005 10:38:04 +0100 <p>After about 5 minutes I'm completely sick of the BBC coverage of whatever incidents have taken place today.</p> <p>I just got a phone call from my Mum to make sure I was okay. They'd heard reports of bombs in the centre of London. After assuring her that I was okay I flipped the TV on to see what was happening. I shouldn't have bothered.</p> <p>Beyond the possibility that there has been a bomb on a bus (certainly something happened) and some sort of disruption on the tube they have <strong>absolutely nothing to say yet they insist on wittering on about it anyway.</strong></p> <p>You can tell the presenters have been eagerly practicing their waffle and speculation since 9/11. Now is their moment in the sun.</p> <p>If this is the best the BBC can do then I suggest we close down BBC news and save the tax payer some money.</p> <p>Update: The BBC website has, predictably, melted down. I'm switching on the TV every half hour or so to comb the coverage for useful information of which there is very little. My hope is that this is not the precursor to something worse.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002729.html More bombs, More cringeworthy coverage Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:55:18 +0100 <p>Another incident in London. So far it seems as if the scale was not as large as before, or that something went wrong for the attackers. In one case it may be that only the detonator went off.</p> <p>However the BBC news reporting is just as bad as before. This time I have <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/newswatch/ukfs/hi/feedback/default.stm">registered a complaint</a> with BBC news:<blockquote><p>To whom it may concern:</p><p>I would like to register my anger at the inane reporting by BBC news, around ten to two this afternoon, in response to this 2nd incident. I heard one of your team ask an eyewitness to a device going off "can you tell us how worrying this was?"</p><p>For goodness sake. If you have nothing sensible to ask an eye witness then please just keep your mouth shut.</p><p>The BBC coverage of both of these incidents has made me cringe. Your brief should be to *inform*. In my opinion you are failing badly.</p><p>Regards,<br/>Matt</p></blockquote></p> <p>Or at least I would have registered my complaint if the BBC servers weren't giving me a constant 503 error. You'd think the BBC would have learned to cope with server load...</p> <p>Finally it went through.</p> http://matt.blogs.it/entries/00002775.html