CA
What are you on about ? There would be no coverage of the storms anyway, 1 to 6 AM is always a BBC world simulcast.
Lots of outrage on twitter over the amount of coverage on BBC News RE: Mandela and absolutely no coverage of the Storms and floods hitting Britain, it is shocking !
What are you on about ? There would be no coverage of the storms anyway, 1 to 6 AM is always a BBC world simulcast.
JO
What are you on about ? There would be no coverage of the storms anyway, 1 to 6 AM is always a BBC world simulcast.
There were hundreds of tweets from angry viewers about the lack of storm updates, BBC News had a Mandela fest from 10pm-6am no other stories for over 8 hours. They showed a live feed of people dancing in a south African street! Loved Nelson Mandela and i know the history of South Africa and how much of a change he made... the man is an inspiration but the public broadcaster should be showing some other news about the worst tidal surges to hit the country in over 50 years. even if its a 60 second update every half hour just to let people know what was going on.
Lots of outrage on twitter over the amount of coverage on BBC News RE: Mandela and absolutely no coverage of the Storms and floods hitting Britain, it is shocking !
What are you on about ? There would be no coverage of the storms anyway, 1 to 6 AM is always a BBC world simulcast.
There were hundreds of tweets from angry viewers about the lack of storm updates, BBC News had a Mandela fest from 10pm-6am no other stories for over 8 hours. They showed a live feed of people dancing in a south African street! Loved Nelson Mandela and i know the history of South Africa and how much of a change he made... the man is an inspiration but the public broadcaster should be showing some other news about the worst tidal surges to hit the country in over 50 years. even if its a 60 second update every half hour just to let people know what was going on.
MA
With the usual ' we know best, but thanks anyway ' arrogance ?
To be honest, I think there was too much Mandela, and not enough floods, but at least
we were spared the nonsense of Jenny Hill and/or Fiona Trott standing in whellies showing us
water lapping up on some poor bar5ard's window sill.
As has been said BBC local radio is the best place for keeping the people affected updated, TV
is too 'regional' to be relevant, and if you've got no power, the telly's not a great deal of use .
That said, the affected regions could very easily have put info tickers
up, in fact they should have considered that regardless, would have been very useful even if
the Mandela death hadn't happened
James Harding, Director of BBC News, will be interviewed on Newswatch tonight, amongst other things on the issue of the Mandela/UK storm coverage. Should be well worth a watch.
With the usual ' we know best, but thanks anyway ' arrogance ?
To be honest, I think there was too much Mandela, and not enough floods, but at least
we were spared the nonsense of Jenny Hill and/or Fiona Trott standing in whellies showing us
water lapping up on some poor bar5ard's window sill.
As has been said BBC local radio is the best place for keeping the people affected updated, TV
is too 'regional' to be relevant, and if you've got no power, the telly's not a great deal of use .
That said, the affected regions could very easily have put info tickers
up, in fact they should have considered that regardless, would have been very useful even if
the Mandela death hadn't happened
CA
I said actual coverage, a headline update isn't coverage.
Actually there would. They run through the UK headlines during commercial breaks. I'm guessing this morning they cancelled the ads though.
I said actual coverage, a headline update isn't coverage.
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CA
Utterly pointless. What are you expecting 'there is heavy rain in your area'.
Ya think
The real actually effected areas were evacuated and had no electricity.
. even if its a 60 second update every half hour just to let people know what was going on.
Utterly pointless. What are you expecting 'there is heavy rain in your area'.
Ya think
The real actually effected areas were evacuated and had no electricity.
Last edited by Cando on 6 December 2013 2:52pm - 2 times in total
BA
Except for the 15 minutes of other news at 00:30.
BBC News had a Mandela fest from 10pm-6am no other stories for over 8 hours.
Except for the 15 minutes of other news at 00:30.
JO
Utterly pointless.
Tell that to the thousands of viewers who had zero info about what was happening from the BBC and had to rely on Twitter and Facebook. If I recall during the 'Super Storm' last month we had blanket coverage, but since its not affecting London, the BBC couldn't give a hoot.
. even if its a 60 second update every half hour just to let people know what was going on.
Utterly pointless.
Tell that to the thousands of viewers who had zero info about what was happening from the BBC and had to rely on Twitter and Facebook. If I recall during the 'Super Storm' last month we had blanket coverage, but since its not affecting London, the BBC couldn't give a hoot.