BBC news get your priorities right !

[WinstonWolf]

MarshPhantom said:

Eric Mc said:

This morning on Radio 4 it made up between 80% to 90% of their news programme. Hardly ANYTHING was mentioned of any other events - either in the UK or the rest of the world. It was WAY over the top.

Ditto Sky News, LBC etc.

The flooding just wasn't as a bad as predicted.

You're right,, it was considerably worse where I was last night and there was a virtual news blackout. It's important to know what's going on if you might need to need to take some action...

[Riley Blue]

keslake said:

Calmed down a bit now....

One of the reasons for my rant was i live on a boat in a marina on the east coast, as do friends of mine.

We had the highest tidal surge ever recorded here and the floating pontoons were less than 2 foot from
rising above their support posts. If that had happened there would of been 340 boats adrift in this marina.
Couple that to all the other marinas around the area and you have potentially a hell of a lot of damage to property.

Let me tell you, it isn't much fun at 2am untying your moorings and starting the engines incase you have to set to quickly.

At the end of the day it would not of been too much trouble for the news teams to update the surge every half hour or so.

'340 boats nearly adrift' isn't news, is it? Until it happens (which it didn't) it's not news.

I can't believe people haven't done what I've done and simply not watched or listened to the news if they find it so objectionable. The BBC is the place for most of the posts in this topic; I wonder how many have taken the time to complain to the culprit rather than bang on about it here.

[Pesty]

Eric Mc said:

This morning on Radio 4 it made up between 80% to 90% of their news programme. Hardly ANYTHING was mentioned of any other events - either in the UK or the rest of the world. It was WAY over the top.

It's radio 4 don't forget this is the station where 2 presenters burst out laughing for minutes and said it was great news when a white farmer was murdered by a gang of black men asleep in his bed.

Radio 4 where being racist means it's ok for you to get murdered.

Now people won't belive me, but I heard it. Of course there was controversy all over the media just like there would have been if presenters had laughed at a black man getting murdered by whites




Of course they are going over the top. Did you expect anything less?

South Africa is a basket case going down hill. A country of rape,murder and depravity. When I was there there was a news story about a load of Somalians murdered in a river for trying to get into sa. But blacks killing blacks isn't news nobody cares. A country full of superstitious people who listen to witch doctors in 2013 where 1 in 3 under 16 year olds have been raped. Not news. A country full of black corruption. Not news.

But we will get days and days of this.

Edited by Pesty on Friday 6th December 13:18

[Eric Mc]

Pesty said:

It's radio 4 don't forget this is the station where 2 presenters burst out laughing for minutes and said it was great news when a white farmer was murdered by a gang of black men asleep in his bed.

Radio 4 where being racist means it's ok for you to get murdered.

Now people won't belive me, but I heard it. Of course there was controversy all over the media just like there would have been if presenters had laughed at a black man getting murdered by whites

I think you should be a bit more specific about that particular allegation.

[keslake]

Riley Blue said:

'340 boats nearly adrift' isn't news, is it? Until it happens (which it didn't) it's not news.

I can't believe people haven't done what I've done and simply not watched or listened to the news if they find it so objectionable. The BBC is the place for most of the posts in this topic; I wonder how many have taken the time to complain to the culprit rather than bang on about it here.

Ok....

Say your house,or one of your close families is at a high risk of getting flooded, you turn on the news to check for updates as you are concerned but all you get is same old repeated crap that some 95yr old pensioner has died.

Put yourself in that situation and think about it.

[Pesty]

Eric Mc said:

I think you should be a bit more specific about that particular allegation.

Not an allegation. It happened I heard it.

Not sure how more specific I can be. Can't remember his name I'm sure he was a dick but plenty if dicks die and presenters don't laugh about it or say its great news.



Edit just remembered it was Eugene Terreblanche don't know much about him other than he fell off his horse and was racist.

Edited by Pesty on Friday 6th December 13:26

[Fat Fairy]

tvrolet said:

QE1 in Scotland

We had Mary at the time, and 'your' QE1 had her head lopped off; then we gave you our James VI (Mary Queen of Scots' son) who was your James I.

Pedantry matters.

Ahem. He was James 1st of Great Britain and Ireland........

Pedantry MATTERS!

[ewenm]

keslake said:

Ok....

Say your house,or one of your close families is at a high risk of getting flooded, you turn on the news to check for updates as you are concerned but all you get is same old repeated crap that some 95yr old pensioner has died.

Put yourself in that situation and think about it.

I get where you're coming from. You needed up-to-date local information about expected water levels. Unfortunately I don't think BBC/commercial media outlets fulfill that role any more. I get all my up-to-date local information from Twitter, but it takes time to build the feeds to get decent coverage. Not much use if you don't already use Twitter.

[Impasse]

Riley Blue said:

'340 boats nearly adrift' isn't news, is it? Until it happens (which it didn't) it's not news.

But the many deaths, thousands evacuated and hundreds of homes flooded is. Mandela's death can be summed up very quickly (three words in fact) giving room for other items of public interest on this publically funded broadcaster.

[Bill]

Rude-boy said:

And yes, this will affect us all as it will be changing insurance prices and don’t forget the new EA flood maps that are coming in in the New Year and the rises they will surprise some with...

I'm already on some sort of insurance flood risk list despite living two miles inland and on a hillside 300ft above sea level

[SeeFive]

Tuned in to Radio Berkshire as usual on the way to work this morning. Normally, it is radio Reading FC with some other stories, but today it has been wall to wall Mandela, even interviewing people getting off Joburg flights at Heathrow etc.

There was absolutely nothing else. Yeah, I can imagine it would be the main story, but the ONLY STORY - come on BBC. I, like a lot of the others in the UK wanted to know a bit about the storms closer to home.

Gave up and listened to a CD.

[Ozzie Osmond]

Yes, the "OFF" switch is my best friend today!

[Bill]

ewenm said:

I get where you're coming from. You needed up-to-date local information about expected water levels. Unfortunately I don't think BBC/commercial media outlets fulfill that role any more. I get all my up-to-date local information from Twitter, but it takes time to build the feeds to get decent coverage. Not much use if you don't already use Twitter.

This. I was listening to Sally Traffic and it took her ten minutes to get through the major road closures and she left some out. National news simply isn't specific enough to get useful local info.

[Rude-boy]

Bill said:

Rude-boy said:

And yes, this will affect us all as it will be changing insurance prices and don’t forget the new EA flood maps that are coming in in the New Year and the rises they will surprise some with...

I'm already on some sort of insurance flood risk list despite living two miles inland and on a hillside 300ft above sea level

"Ah, that will be surface water flooding then Sir."

Funny but there was a thing on all this on the Today show on BBC R4 on Wednesday morning with people who had never been at risk being re-rated based on the fuller information that is now to be used. This has added to my incredulity over the lack of comment compared to St. Nelson (RIP)

Edited by Rude-boy on Friday 6th December 13:42

[Eric Mc]

Pesty said:

Eric Mc said:

I think you should be a bit more specific about that particular allegation.

Not an allegation. It happened I heard it.

Not sure how more specific I can be. Can't remember his name I'm sure he was a dick but plenty if dicks die and presenters don't laugh about it or say its great news.



Edit just remembered it was Eugene Terreblanche don't know much about him other than he fell off his horse and was racist.

Edited by Pesty on Friday 6th December 13:26

Ah - so it wasn't quite the hard working, honest farmer toiling away on the land then.

Those who live by the sword, or advocate living by the sword are sometimes felled by the sword.

[megaphone]

Finally some cooking on Radio London!

[rohrl]

There is no flooding where I live so I'm quite glad I didn't have to put up with hearing about flooding. Particularly glad I didn't have to hear any Hull accents.

It's not every day (or even every decade) that a statesman of the stature of Mandela dies.

[Pesty]

Eric Mc said:

Ah - so it wasn't quite the hard working, honest farmer toiling away on the land then.

Those who live by the sword, or advocate living by the sword are sometimes felled by the sword.

I wasn't aware he was a murderer and even if he was r4 presenters don't laugh about murderers being murdered.

But he was a thought criminal so all is ok.

Everybody knew thus would happen. I've just turned the news off. Every man and his dog are being interviewed.

He was a great man I the end. Even if he did like singing songs about machine gunning boers.

When I was in sa his grandson was in the news for kicking poor black people out of their houses so he could build a massive mansion. Its working out great

[perdu]

Fat Fairy said:

tvrolet said:

QE1 in Scotland

We had Mary at the time, and 'your' QE1 had her head lopped off; then we gave you our James VI (Mary Queen of Scots' son) who was your James I.

Pedantry matters.

Ahem. He was James 1st of Great Britain and Ireland........

Pedantry MATTERS!

to me too

Our QE1 had her head lopped off?

Don't teach history very well up your way do they, no wonder so many Scots think they need to get away frae auld enemies.

Stolen from the Wiki, re: QE1

The Queen's health remained fair until the autumn of 1602, when a series of deaths among her friends plunged her into a severe depression. In February 1603, the death of Catherine Howard, Countess of Nottingham, the niece of her cousin and close friend Catherine, Lady Knollys, came as a particular blow. In March, Elizabeth fell sick and remained in a "settled and unremovable melancholy". She died on 24 March 1603 at Richmond Palace, between two and three in the morning. A few hours later, Cecil and the council set their plans in motion and proclaimed James VI of Scotland as king of England.


ps I am totally peed off with this sick obsession with an extremely old chap dying in another country getting such excessive BBC (and others) news coverage

Edited by perdu on Friday 6th December 14:00

[MX7]

shoestring7 said:

Funnily enough the same people often don't have a problem with calling a Somali born runner with two Somali parents British.

SS7

Good point well made, and I think that we know the type of accusations that would fly if you questioned Mo's heritage.

I think that the BBC has gone way over the top with Mandela. It started at 10 last night, both on BBC1 and BBC2, and, I presume, carried on all night because it was still there this morning. I turned on BBC Radio London this morning and that was the same.

Mandela was a great man, and was definitely worthy of a news alert when he died, but the total saturation of all their channels, when they have their own dedicated news channel, seems OTT.