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leicslad46
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I find it disgusting that BBC News has chosen to break away from a report on scotland to go live to a press conference in missouri. It isnt just the BBC who have done it. It is no doubt keeping more important news off the news agenda over here. Scotland is more important than a shooting miles away
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Live events will generally take precedence over recorded events on news channels.
Get a grip, OP.
Ok, you have chosen not to discuss the points made in my reply .......
Nonetheless, the US networks generally have a reputation for being insular and ignoring events that don't directly or indirectly affect the US. The day that those networks are held up as paragons of virtue would be a very bad day indeed.
So something which happens in one months time is more important to something happening right now ?
Sorry but i agree with the others, and judging by the lack of support you are getting, i am not alone.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-25_Empire_State_Building_crash
A shooting in america is NOT news in the UK unless it was a brit who was shot or did the shooting. Hell, they kill tens of thousands of their own citizens every year. Just because they make a big fuss about this one is no reason for other countries to report it.
It turns out that the Botswana police also shot a man, this week. Was that reported? or do the UK media only cover stories that come from the USA.
That is a very ignorant view of the world. I, me, yes ME, cares about what happens in the world and when a police officer shoots an unarmed surrendering man which caused widespread rioting, i want to find out the latest developments. Call me weird if you like.
I'll join you in your "weirdness" if I may.
Just out of interest, do you have any connection with St. Louis - anything at all. Visited it once, friends / relatives there, even the slightest knowledge of anything or anyone there. Or is this merely vicarious thrill-seeking and feeling involved in someone else's crisis and personal tragedy?
Freak
I have never been to Mars but when man lands on it i want to know that too.
Thrill seeking at somebodys death ? Of course not and that is very stupid of you to suggest that. I am interested in the world i live in. I know you find that hard to understand
However that understanding doesn't stop me feeling repelled by it,
People have relatives and friends all over the world.
We don't live in just Britain anymore you know we live in a global world with issues that affect us.
In case you had forgotten we had a little riot a few years ago involving a policeman shooting someone in Tottenham.
Isis are a threat to the world, Israel/Gaza angers lots of people in this country.
Russia/Ukraine is volatile.
Scotland voting in a month's time should only be top if it has new information plus a lot of people outside Scotland may ask why this would lead the news when we are not involved.
To a viewer in New York something that happens in Chicago is foreign news.
I agree that the UK News channels seem to fall over themselves when it comes to america. I was pointing out that there is more important news affecting this country. Iraq and ukraine to name two. And a story that is being ignored by the news channels(MH17). Have all the 298 been found a month after the crash. And have all the ten UK victims been accounted for and repatriated back from Ukraine.
Btw i was not implying that the news should have fluffy news stories like cats. BBC News should cover hard news that affects this country. JUST MY OPINION
Which country ? England or Scotland ?
Your whole argument is based on, the nearer to where you live the more coverage a story should get regardless of its importance
Let us put these stories in context. One was a live press conference regards a huge riot which is spiralling out of control. The other was Gavin Esler based in Scotland because today is one calendar month to the Scottish referendum. One was news and one was a feature but you want actual news to take a backstep on a news channel because its a bunch of foreigners and not your neighbours ?
I think you are very xenophobic. JUST MY OPINION.
You are bordering on insulting. I have absolutely no morbid curiosity and I have no idea where you come up with that ludicrous suggestion I do. Given a choice I would rather Michael Brown be still alive and well. But I am curious as to what is happening to stop it happening again.
They fall over themselves because it is so easy to get coverage out of the States with the networks and all their affiliates (by comparison say with getting coverage out of Iraq). You can hardly blame the UK news channels as breaking news is their business and of course sometimes they get it wrong. As far as the US nets not covering foreign stories
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9BEFfErJpU