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I switched on Sky News at 10 this morning and so far the only topic covered has been news of a missing boy in Edinburgh. Now please don't get me wrong - I fully accept that this is a significant event which deserves to be mentioned (as the BBC have as well) and I am sure it must be distressing for those involved, but even by Sky's standards it isn't something which merits continuous coverage to the exclusion of everything else going on in the world.
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If they have a picture and his last whereabouts on screen, I fail to see what the problem is.. The rest is just semantics,
Unfortunately children go missing all of the time but some get saturation media coverage while others hardly get a mention in their local paper.
Agreed, more important to me than Military cuts or rich tennis players swooning in the heat, although the appalling situation with the paedophile ring which streamed live child abuse from the Philippines over the internet needs covergae too.
Yes and if Sky had not covered it fully we would have had dozens of complaints on here that TV media are only interested in stories that happen in London and Southern Britain. Sky just cannot win. There is always BBC to turn to for other news like some insignificant piece of news like tennis players banging a ball across a net
Was there this type of complaint when other children went missing and sky and the BBC gave it coverage
That said, BBC News is covering other news too. I think sometimes we forget that a 24-hour news channel is not about having structured news bulletin like on BBC and ITV.
Well there are the military cuts, the DLT and Roache trials, a quite big story about the Greater Manchester police chief being charged. I should think these might be of some interest to Sky News viewers in Brighton or Exeter or Norwich, or anywhere outside the immediate vicinity of this incident.
Let me repeat, I'm not saying they shouldn't be covering it in some detail and I hope the boy is found safe and well, but it just seems to me they've got their coverage a little out of proportion.
I think this is a very good example to illustrate why plurality of news coverage is important.
Looks like it is filmed on smart phone
Just saw that. Looked like something out of Blair Witch.
EDIT: He's on now, following police officers down a pavement, walking into neighbours' properties and poking his smartphone above their fences.
Indeed, if this was a missing adult - even one labelled as 'vulnerable' (whatever that means these days) - they'd have been lucky if this got more than 20 seconds on the local radio news.
I switched to BBC News, and they too had what was almost wall to wall coverage, but due to the nature of the event, no issues with that, I see it is also done quite a lot in the USA, or similar, calling them Amber alerts .
I should just add that I hope there is a happy ending to this.
They also plaster it all over Facebook.
An unusual thing to do. I'd have no objection to the police looking, but having Sky broadcasting my back garden to the world seems a breach of my privacy, however slight a breach that may be.