Anyone else find the BBC's coverage of the Mumbai terrorist attacks a little distasteful
It just seems the quest for citizen-generated media has gone too far when people are "tweeting" in their thoughts on the subject, and given the same importance as reporters on the ground.
And it just seems like they've borrowed the whole thing from the Live Sport pages. What's next, generalised announcements - (21:38 - EXPLOSION: Terrorists 2 - Government 0)
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The Coast Of Yemen, Thu 27 Nov 2008, 22:59,
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i think it is a fine line
The phone interview with someone in the hotel this morning on Today gave a good insight, but I agree, that seems to be a bit much.
(, Thu 27 Nov 2008, 23:51, Reply)
its easily abused,
like when they were asking people to send in pictures of things that had been damaged in that earthquake and loads of people just sent in pictures of mugs overturned and toy cars crashed into each other etc.
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Nostrebor can't be everything all the time., Fri 28 Nov 2008, 0:14,
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when you live in a shit-hole, often you find that any reports on telly are complete bollocks
like the news from the UK. Often it is vastly distorted.
but what do you expect from lying bastard lazy journalists?
(, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 6:40, Reply)
"Rolling news" isn't journalism
As Charlie Brooker said, it's just "Look! LOOK!!" with no analysis or context.
There was an interesting interview earlier this week with a journalist who said that where governments used to have a "theme" for the week, it became one a day, and now it's one in the morning, one in the afternoon & probably another before we all go to bed.
He also pointed out that if the Cuban Missile Crisis had had "rolling news", we'd have all been fucked.
(, Fri 28 Nov 2008, 11:12, Reply)