Trapped Chilean miners found alive, but...

[andy_s]

Lead miner to President: "I hope that doesn't happen again" Class understatement!

[Chris_w666]

Morningside said:

No. The BBC have wasted all the money on this story (£100,000).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/13/bbc-ch...

How the hell can it cost £100,000 just to tell us that some blokes have been pulled out of a hole. I hope the spending review hits the feckless wasteful lefty wkers right in the lentils.

[paddyhasneeds]

Chris_w666 said:

Morningside said:

No. The BBC have wasted all the money on this story (£100,000).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/13/bbc-ch...

How the hell can it cost £100,000 just to tell us that some blokes have been pulled out of a hole. I hope the spending review hits the feckless wasteful lefty wkers right in the lentils.

Sorry but I do think this is newsworthy even if I can't do a very good job at putting into words quite why "Human triumph" I suppose even if an alternative view is "dig a deep hole".

I'd be interested to know the break down of costs to get them there and cover it at any level vs. the costs of wall to wall coverage when there's nothing to report - I'm assuming transmitting from the middle of the Atacama desert for any period of time costs more than doing the same from, say, Central London.

They should be looking at all the real non-stories that get lots of reporters standing outside lots of pointless places reporting pointless facts.

[Dan_1981]

I'd imagine a pretty big crew gets sent over - its not going to be just one reporter and a camera man.

Their wages and expenses for what has been at least a month has got to be pretty significant alone.

[hornetrider]

Chris_w666 said:

Morningside said:

No. The BBC have wasted all the money on this story (£100,000).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/13/bbc-ch...

How the hell can it cost £100,000 just to tell us that some blokes have been pulled out of a hole. I hope the spending review hits the feckless wasteful lefty wkers right in the lentils.

Telegraph linky

Telegraph said:

Chile miners: BBC sends 25 to cover rescue of 33

The corporation’s staff significantly outnumbers all the other UK broadcasters put together, with ITV having sent six people, Sky News a team of nine and Channel 4 News just three.

As well as newsgathering for the BBC’s TV and radio bulletins and its website, the corporation’s team is understood to include crews for Panorama and Radio 5 Live.

All thanks to the unique way the Beeb is funded.

Edited by hornetrider on Thursday 14th October 13:37

[Silver993tt]

Chris_w666 said:

Morningside said:

No. The BBC have wasted all the money on this story (£100,000).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/13/bbc-ch...

How the hell can it cost £100,000 just to tell us that some blokes have been pulled out of a hole. I hope the spending review hits the feckless wasteful lefty wkers right in the lentils.

because the journalists are flwon there is 1st class and stay in the top hotels, taxis everywhere, huge per diems etc. They claim every expense under the sun, allowances etc. That's where your TV License money goes

[JB!]

Elizabeth Fritzl said:

Those miners are lightweights

[Chris_w666]

Silver993tt said:

Chris_w666 said:

Morningside said:

No. The BBC have wasted all the money on this story (£100,000).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/13/bbc-ch...

How the hell can it cost £100,000 just to tell us that some blokes have been pulled out of a hole. I hope the spending review hits the feckless wasteful lefty wkers right in the lentils.

because the journalists are flwon there is 1st class and stay in the top hotels, taxis everywhere, huge per diems etc. They claim every expense under the sun, allowances etc. That's where your TV License money goes

My question was more rhetorical I am having a ste day anyway. Still nice to know that somehow the job of one bloke a handicam, a laptop and an internet connection has been done by 25 probably armed with £100k worth of equipment

Are sky showing it in HD too?

[FamilyGuy]

DJC said:

Tadite said:

FamilyGuy said:

I'm confused. From what the BBC say it was a US built drill operated by Americans that made the escape shaft. So how come the Chillians are claiming all the credit and I've not heard a single word of thanks for the US?

Just because they had a little bit of help doesn't mean it isn't one heck of an achievement. They did the hard part of keeping people organized and not letting them go insane. Bringing in specialists like NASA is just due diligence.

Er no. The hard is the engineering and achieving what was needed. Keeping organised not going insane is only a right knacker when you are in a hopeless situation. When that has been resolved and you are into a steady state situation, things become much easier to manage.

The drilling and engineering behind the rescue shaft, 700m down...now *that* was the hard part. There should be some fking large congratulations going on for the engineering.

Exactly. And the "not letting them go insane" was done by NASA - er that would be the US too and I doubt they'll send a bill.

Edited by FamilyGuy on Thursday 14th October 14:04

[DangerousMike]

lets remember that whilst NASA had the appropriate experience to help the miners they were also interested in studying how they coped in this situation, which has a lot of similarities to those that could be encountered on future manned space missions (e.g. to Mars).

[JonRB]

Well, I must say I've been really entertained by the Chilean Miners. I'm not sure how much of their stuff I'm going to like now that they've gone mainstream - I think I preferred their underground stuff.

[Vipers]

FamilyGuy said:

I'm confused. From what the BBC say it was a US built drill operated by Americans that made the escape shaft. So how come the Chillians are claiming all the credit and I've not heard a single word of thanks for the US?

The Americans took all the credit for putting a man on the mooon, I didn't hear a single word of thanks to the Germans? (Re - Wernher von Braun)

[Marf]

Vipers said:

FamilyGuy said:

I'm confused. From what the BBC say it was a US built drill operated by Americans that made the escape shaft. So how come the Chillians are claiming all the credit and I've not heard a single word of thanks for the US?

The Americans took all the credit for putting a man on the mooon, I didn't hear a single word of thanks to the Germans? (Re - Wernher von Braun)

Wasn't he an American by that point?

[Vipers]

Marf said:

Vipers said:

FamilyGuy said:

I'm confused. From what the BBC say it was a US built drill operated by Americans that made the escape shaft. So how come the Chillians are claiming all the credit and I've not heard a single word of thanks for the US?

The Americans took all the credit for putting a man on the mooon, I didn't hear a single word of thanks to the Germans? (Re - Wernher von Braun)

Wasn't he an American by that point?

Don't matter does it? he was probably naturised and pasturised by that time, but it was German know how which did it. (You get my drift). Anyway a very good result in Chile, when does the film come out?

[qube_TA]

Chris_w666 said:

Morningside said:

No. The BBC have wasted all the money on this story (£100,000).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/oct/13/bbc-ch...

How the hell can it cost £100,000 just to tell us that some blokes have been pulled out of a hole. I hope the spending review hits the feckless wasteful lefty wkers right in the lentils.

Given that the BBC will have to scale back their reporting of "next month's G20 summit in Seoul, the Oscars, the Cancún climate summit, which begins in November, the Nato summit in Lisbon, and the Davos World Economic Forum." This is another good news story to come from this rescue!

[Morningside]

Blib said:

Anyone got a copy of 'Manic Miner - Chile edition' ?

[Vipers]

Do tell tell me, all it needed was one reporter, one camerman, one laptop, so why £100,000? even with first class flights, which I have no problems with at all.

The BBC should explain this to the licence paying public.

[Morningside]

Vipers said:

Do tell tell me, all it needed was one reporter, one camerman, one laptop, so why £100,000? even with first class flights, which I have no problems with at all.

The BBC should explain this to the licence paying public.

Did anyone else notice the actual cost was missing from 'Have I Got News For You'? They just mentioned the number of BBC reporters?

[Glassman]

Morningside said:

Anyone got a copy of 'Manic Miner - Chile edition' ?

coming right up

[Puggit]

Vipers said:

Do tell tell me, all it needed was one reporter, one camerman, one laptop, so why £100,000? even with first class flights, which I have no problems with at all.

The BBC should explain this to the licence paying public.

I believe the BBC are subject to FOI requests...