Sky "News"?!

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 5,258

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  31/01/08 - 15:11 #2

  trec123 wrote: »

  They've just devoted the best part of half an hour to the "Breaking News" story that Beckham is not going to get his 100th cap.
  Is this the best attempt they have at a serious news story?
  Talk about "dumbing down":mad:

  
  LOL.. other channels are also reporting it.. It means a lot to anyone who is a footie fan.

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• trec123 Posts: 4,419

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  31/01/08 - 15:14 #3

  I am a footie fan - and it's still annoying me!
  He hasn't played a game in how long? So Capello refuses to give him a sympathy cap and there are Sky running after Sven to ask him if he "has any message for David?"
  Please!!!:yawn:

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• JSemple3 Posts: 8,652

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  31/01/08 - 15:15 #4

  If this is off topic for this thread then tell me off but............
  
  WHO CARES
  
  (don't mean the half hour sky dedicating this BTW) but it's BECKHAM FFS! Rooney or Owen wouldn't get this much attention about a stupid cap would they?

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• ftv Posts: 31,668

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  31/01/08 - 15:17 #5

  Its' been widely reported in national newspapers and on the BBC from earlier in the week that Becks would not get the cap (at least this time round), not my idea of breaking news but then everything on Sky is ''breaking news'' which just devalues the coinage:eek:

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• trec123 Posts: 4,419

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  31/01/08 - 15:18 #6

  No - stick around - they're about to break the news that "sicknote" Owen's been dropped too:D

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• Scalper Jack Posts: 4,734

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  31/01/08 - 15:23 #7

  It's a lot of shit.

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• Sloopy Posts: 65,209

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  31/01/08 - 15:26 #8

  Let's face it - everything is "Breaking News" as far as Sky is concerned.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 2,295

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  31/01/08 - 15:37 #9

  trec123 wrote: »

  They've just devoted the best part of half an hour to the "Breaking News" story that Beckham is not going to get his 100th cap.
  Is this the best attempt they have at a serious news story?
  Talk about "dumbing down":mad:

  
  This is an event that has happened in real life so yes it is "News"
  
  Sky are not the only ones reporting on this.
  
  If you think thats bad pick up any newspaper tomorrow and look at the back page.

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• System Posts: 2,096,970

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  31/01/08 - 15:38 #10

  breaking news Gordon brown just farts...i swear one day it will appear.

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• Daveoc64 Posts: 15,374

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  31/01/08 - 15:46 #11

  The BBC had this as breaking news too.

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• Official Diva Posts: 6,792

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  31/01/08 - 16:04 #12

  Sky have had this as its main story all day. Its been running over and over. I'm sick of it.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 3,716

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  31/01/08 - 16:07 #13

  Who gives a s*** about Beckham and the England football team!

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• ftv Posts: 31,668

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  31/01/08 - 16:36 #14

  Breaking news....the Second World War is over:mad::mad:

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• Caxton Posts: 28,881

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  31/01/08 - 16:42 #15

  Beckham not getting his 100th cap. End of story it needs no more, but there will be loads here for reporters and journalists to chew over for days on end, they just love it:D

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• Spot Posts: 25,124

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  31/01/08 - 17:17 #16

  I confess I haven't seen any of this, but the point is surely the amount of time devoted to it. If it is as the OP suggests, it seems a tad excessive, particularly in view of the fact that there is quite a lot going on today.

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  31/01/08 - 18:03 #17

  Eamondo wrote: »

  This is an event that has happened in real life so yes it is "News"
  
  Sky are not the only ones reporting on this.
  
  If you think thats bad pick up any newspaper tomorrow and look at the back page.

  
  You might see it as news but to be honest its sports news,
  Sky have a Sports News channel that should be used for this. On the main news channel it should only get no more than five minutes in the sports bit.
  
  As to you your newspaper comment....really where else would you expect to find sports news in a newspaper :rolleyes:

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• Spot Posts: 25,124

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  31/01/08 - 18:26 #18

  The BBC have just done about two minutes on it almost at the end of a half hour bulletin, which seems reasonable.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 763

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  31/01/08 - 18:36 #19

  ftv wrote: »

  Breaking news....the Second World War is over:mad::mad:

  
  This just in..... Man lands on the Moon.

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• hugon Posts: 1,690

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  31/01/08 - 18:41 #20

  Celebrity is news these days.

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• Sloopy Posts: 65,209

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  31/01/08 - 19:28 #21

  EmoQueen wrote: »

  breaking news Gordon brown just farts...i swear one day it will appear.

  
  Don't joke - it may happen one day!! :eek:

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• mb@2day Posts: 10,788

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  31/01/08 - 19:40 #22

  I love it when that ( fire ) alarm goes off at sky. I 'd just wish the presenter would say sorry but I have to go and just leave us with an empty studio.:)

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 2,260

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  31/01/08 - 19:44 #23

  Literally Any news on sky news is breaking new, is very annoying

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• BigOrange Posts: 59,672

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  31/01/08 - 19:45 #24

  On the subject of Sky News, does anyone else have sound issues with Sky.com News?
  
  See here http://news.sky.com/skynews/livenewsevents

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  31/01/08 - 19:47 #25

  trec123 wrote: »

  I am Sky running after Sven to ask him if he "has any message for David?"
  Please!!!:yawn:

  
  Sven: "David, can you send me over a case of Hersheys chocolate please, my last lot has run out"

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 4,854

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  31/01/08 - 19:48 #26

  the Breaking News thing is a joke - little of it is ever news, let alone breaking

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