Tabloid news programs!
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[Rantmodeon]
I sat through the news24 program this morning - flamin 'eck!
Why are our once decent news programs following sky news example and creating crappy tabloid prgrams driven by headlines and those crappy subtitles???
And WHY do they have experts on? They dont listen to them. The marine guy on this morning tried to rationalise the reports that the american fighter had just bombed john simpson's crew. Now ok it probably was an american (how many iraqi jets are flying missions) but as the marine was saying they didn't know what the plane was, where it came from etc etc, so were they sure it was US? John simpson was of no use to verify as the poor bloke was still wandering around with the starts flying around his head from the blast!!
The presenters, listened to the marine, agreed, turned back to the cameras and went "US plane bombs US special forces, many dead many injured!" - reports stated something like 12 dead few more injured, i dont class that as many. Why try to sensationalise it???
I always thought we prided ourselves on telling the whole picture, considered and reasoned reports, not two igiots winging it live on national TV, making it up as they go along.
[Rantmodeoff]
I sat through the news24 program this morning - flamin 'eck!
Why are our once decent news programs following sky news example and creating crappy tabloid prgrams driven by headlines and those crappy subtitles???
And WHY do they have experts on? They dont listen to them. The marine guy on this morning tried to rationalise the reports that the american fighter had just bombed john simpson's crew. Now ok it probably was an american (how many iraqi jets are flying missions) but as the marine was saying they didn't know what the plane was, where it came from etc etc, so were they sure it was US? John simpson was of no use to verify as the poor bloke was still wandering around with the starts flying around his head from the blast!!
The presenters, listened to the marine, agreed, turned back to the cameras and went "US plane bombs US special forces, many dead many injured!" - reports stated something like 12 dead few more injured, i dont class that as many. Why try to sensationalise it???
I always thought we prided ourselves on telling the whole picture, considered and reasoned reports, not two igiots winging it live on national TV, making it up as they go along.
[Rantmodeoff]
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