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Yea, I'm sure they do but I don't, particularly, want to see it all over our news programmes. BBC gave it 12 minutes at the start of the news yesterday!!!!....i am more interested in what is going on in the UK, by all means 'give it a mention' LA.
Do you think they (the US) give us as much air time in what is going on in the UK??
One thing I read yesterday is after the BBC merged their World News and News sections its made their coverage much more US-centric as its the same feed broadcast globally.
Yea, I'm sure they do but I don't, particularly, want to see it all over our news programmes. BBC gave it 12 minutes at the start of the news yesterday!!!!....i am more interested in what is going on in the UK, by all means 'give it a mention' LA.
Do you think they (the US) give us as much air time in what is going on in the UK??
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Yes, I see how deadly wildfires disrupting Homes Under The Hammer could be irritating.
It is pretty shocking and I think a lot of houses are built of wood, as opposed to brick, so would have gone up in flames like tinder-sticks.
We have one of our major head offices in Santa Monica so there is concern here for our colleagues who work there. Thankfully it's been reported this morning none of the staff (and family & friends) are affected so that was good to hear.
If anyone thinks anything in particular is oversaturated on media platforms (and it may well be), there are others things one can do.... read a book, watch a film, watch another channel, go for a walk, have a wnk.....
It is pretty shocking and I think a lot of houses are built of wood, as opposed to brick, so would have gone up in flames like tinder-sticks.
We have one of our major head offices in Santa Monica so there is concern here for our colleagues who work there. Thankfully it's been reported this morning none of the staff (and family & friends) are affected so that was good to hear.
If anyone thinks anything in particular is oversaturated on media platforms (and it may well be), there are others things one can do.... read a book, watch a film, watch another channel, go for a walk, have a wnk.....
I'm with Gazza on this. I have many friends in LA so I do care about what is happening there but I don't need BBC sending me around 10 push notifications since it started.
This would not have the same coverage if it happened anywhere else in the world (apart from UK of course).
I agree. It’s a big deal, but it gets more coverage than it should - because it’s easy, there’s loads of content, not so much political risk, and engaging images. There’s something going on inGeorgia right? And trump/musk threatening eu territorial integrity.
God I can’t imagine having bbc news notifications!
I'm with Gazza on this. I have many friends in LA so I do care about what is happening there but I don't need BBC sending me around 10 push notifications since it started.
This would not have the same coverage if it happened anywhere else in the world (apart from UK of course).
I happen to agree that we live in a US centric view of the world, but it’s still tasteless to say ‘who cares’ in the wake of deaths and homelessness.
I'm with Gazza on this. I have many friends in LA so I do care about what is happening there but I don't need BBC sending me around 10 push notifications since it started.
This would not have the same coverage if it happened anywhere else in the world (apart from UK of course).
On a general note, it has always bothered me that if something tragic like this happens in Central Africa or Central Asia the coverage would not be the same, but then a journo friend told me it was very simple - USA coverage is plentiful and cheap for TV producers to obtain and show.
Best wishes to any of you who know people caught up in this x
"The opposite of love, after all, is not hate, but indifference."
On a general note, it has always bothered me that if something tragic like this happens in Central Africa or Central Asia the coverage would not be the same, but then a journo friend told me it was very simple - USA coverage is plentiful and cheap for TV producers to obtain and show.
Best wishes to any of you who know people caught up in this x
However, Africa does get disproportionately higher coverage on the BBC and Al Jazeera because they pay a fair bit of advertising, as I was told by a journo at Al J.
However, the issue for me is that when 'something' happens in the US, the BBC news drops everything and is straight over there, when it wouldn't do so elsewhere as you say Brian. But secondly, when the story has yet to unfurl, and even when it's clearly not going to amount to much, they just keep their camera rolling and often all you can see are rotund coppers standing around doing nothing. Yesterday's 'live' coverage of tubby Yanks waddling past Jimmy Carter's coffin for ages, while they repeatedly played Kamala Harris' eulogy of sorts, was embarrassing.
Compounded by the Beeb desperately try to find someone to interview only to then frequently ask the most banal of questions. I once heard words to these effect after some random shooting: 'And did people look scared when they heard the shots?'
They going to have an absolute vvankfest over the inauguration and for the next four years of the orange manbaby.
'Always In Motion' by John Honney available on amazon.co.uk
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