Manchester Terror Attack

I was talking about Morgan generally, no idea what happened this morning.

I think you're probably taking it too personally due to being too close.

Absolutely, it's the sort of black humour that is prevelant in newsrooms everywhere. Humour is how people get through horrific events, part of business as usual.


It's a joke about Kay herself, not the event. Skygeek, you may think my comment a bit crass and inappropriate, but maybe I'm just channeling Kay's reputation

I'm sure this kinda thing would be like water off a ducks back to Kay.

That is very true.

It might be the way newsrooms get through this sort of thing BUT it's taking advantage of the carnage of last night to repeat allegations, some of which are valid, against a presenter who must today be working in the most extreme of circumstances. It's a dig valid when politicians are mocked but when twenty plus young people, the youngest of which has been confirmed as eight, have died it's appallingly bad taste.

Just watching the BBC NEWS on BBC one just approaching 1:45pm and there was a BREAKING NEWS caption put up on screen for the PM arriving at GMP HQ. Has that ever happened before on the 1, 6 or 10?

This is why:
https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera/videos/10155570808213690

There was also someone claiming to be The Sun's Manchester correspondent, but who had only ever sent six tweets and had 25 followers, but who was getting a lot of pickup from Twitter users last night after claiming Sir Alex Ferguson was missing among the carnage.


Quite why people get off on doing that sort of stuff is beyond me, but mercifully, no mainstream platforms took the bait.

Absolutely. I tend to avoid social media during breaking stories like this, misinformation is rife and there are ugly hoaxes like those in the video posted.


TV and radio may get some of the facts wrong in the very early stages of a breaking story but I am much more inclined to stick to them and avoid the social media channels completely, with the exception of this forum, if you want to call a forum social media (in fact these days I tend to find out a fair few breaking news stories from absentmindedly opening a browser and typing in tvf, including this one)

I might be wrong, but the ITV News youtube stream has just ended.

Most extreme of circumstances ?

Kay Burley stood in a Manchester street talking to a camera, she (as all do presenters) has the superb ability to talk and interview while being bombarded with instructions from the director and editors, I certainly couldn't do it, but come on, what are the actual consequences should she cock up ? Compared with say, an air traffic controller, a surgeon, a train driver, a crane operator.......

Social media did have the first images from the area but even these were said to be fake, lots of confusion. How do the media companies work out what is real and what is not.