ASIA Disaster - Coverage & Discussion

The News Special wasn't shown on News 24 at 7.30 so I suppose they had to show it sometime.

Why? It doesn't necessarily follow that it should be so.

Im sure it has been mentioned over the last year (possibly in broadcast magazine and/or digital spy) that ITV News Channel actually out-performed both BBC News 24 and SKY¦News on the DTT platform. I have no access to figures but i remember some figures being quoted when it was originally mentioned a few months back.

Obviously all that good work that has been done to attract viewers to watch ITVNC has now vanished due to not being broadcast on DTT anymore!

Shame really!

If your information is so watertight, what on Earth are you being so thin-skinned about, for heaven's sake? I wasn't accusing you of anything, I was saying that I didn't think the numbers were adding up, but having re-read the information, they clearly do.

My God there is a lot of bitterness around here. People need to stop taking things so seriously and going off on some sort of personal war whenever they are questioned.

ON THE SUBJECT OF THE THREAD: I notice Sky News are now advertising and linking to the earthquake appeal donation service that is being provided by Sky Active via the Community Channel.

It was getting higher ratings than Sky - not News 24.

Discussing ratings within the context of this forum is fine as this is a presentation forum that lends itself to that discussion. However, I base my criticism of your post on previous posts you have made on this forum exploiting every opportunity to rubbish other news outlets in favour of the BBC. My own personal view of which it remains my own personal view for you to do with as you please, is that this particular subject should not lend it self to the usual one up man ship that can exist on these threads when comparing news channel coverage.

I guess what I am saying is that you can present those kinds of statistics without sounding quite so inappropriately smug.

Anyhow, I agree with cat, this subject is becoming a bit personal, so shall we remain on topic?

I noted on Sky News earlier that they are asking people to contact them for some kind of documentary in the reuniting of people from this crisis.

This would be the same stupid, Murdoch-style, preposterous, tabloid idea that News 24 are now copying on their ticker... a couple of days after Sky.

As ever, ahead of the game.

Notice Sky have produced their own disaster appeal video, with Jeremy Thompson in Thailand. Not sure whether it has gone out on other channels (imagine only BSkyB ones) but they're showing it quite regularly.

Trevor Mcdonald has done one for ITV, I would imagine the BBC have or will also produce an appeal.
FYI, Skys appeal video is being played at 53 mintues pass the hour.

Think it works rather better now Sky have changed it to just list people who are safe and well, and also provided a full page on the website. I wish they'd use sentence case on that ticker though, rather than full caps (and everywhere else for that matter).

Haven't seen it yet, but I imagine Jeremy Thompson speaking from Thailand is rather more compelling than David Dimbleby suited and perched in a studio gallery..

I's ask at this point if you could take a little break from this discussion, and take yourselves and your wallets off to the Disasters Emergency Committee website where you can make a donation to help those affected. If you prefer to make a donation via telephone, the number is 0870 60 60 900.

Mark.

Surely the scale of the disaster is enough to make the appeal compelling, location and clothing of the broadcaster has little to no bearing on the matter. Does the fact Thompson is in Phuket make you more likely to donate than having Dimbleby in London? I hope for the sake of the estimated 500million people left without the three basic essentials for life that you have more sense then that.

So far IMHO I think most the news channels have done an amazing job of covering the tsunamis considering the time of year and the sheer size of the area affected. I am beginning to wonder if the reporting we are seeing hour after hour on the UK networks and even CNNi is a watershed for the future considering the often graphic nature of the reports particularly from such places as Banda Aceh and Phuket where I have seen many reports that at times show days old decomposing bodies which ordinarily is never shown on Western media.

On the issue of having 'big wigs' in the countries hit we should not forget that this is a story that will run for a long time, firstly as the initial death toll rises further, followed by the deaths caused by disease and exposure which is believed will equal the lives lost from the waves and thirdly the international aid efforts to the region and subsequently such things as the economic and political consequences of the disaster. So all things considered does it really matter where the newsreaders of BBC News 24, Sky News and the ITV NC are.

Ir was mentioned on ITV news tonight that the earthquake tremors were felt 5000 miles away here in the UK - is this true and how bad were the tremors?