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Manchester Terror Attack

On 22 May 2017, there was a suicide bombing at Manchester Arena which killed 22 people (May 2017)

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A former member
Is it possible the police might have told the UK broadcasters not to say certain stuff at this moment of time?
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Whataday Founding member
40,000 people viewing the live stream of Sky News on YouTube.
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Jon
Fox News via their sister publication The Sun are reporting this is nail bomb.
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Mouseboy33
And why would they concede to that as well? Interesting question.
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BBI45
Is it possible the police might have told the UK broadcasters not to say certain stuff at this moment of time?

I don't think they would. Regardless of what the Police say, people are going to go to social media. If the police don't say something, social media will, and news will start to flood in whether the police like it or not.
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London Lite Founding member
Sky News's breaking news ticker appears to have packed up and are using the normal one with other headlines.
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A former member
Jon posted:
Fox News via their sister publication The Sun are reporting this is nail bomb.


There no way the UK broadcasters could report that at this moment. its not helpful nor confirmed.
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Jon
Second explosion at Victoria Station being reported by Fox, well they're just quoting Twitter.
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Mouseboy33
Seen on another source about the possibility of a nail bomb as well. They claimed to have confirmed it with local officials.
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IrelandIsle
Sky News's breaking news ticker appears to have packed up and are using the normal one with other headlines.


Earlier on they were having problems with straps as well, details about the news were shown in breaking news colours but peoples names and eyewitness names reverted to standard red and white sets.

They have been having graphical issues for a week or two on and off but they've been much less apparent last few days.
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BBI45
BBC Radio 5 Live reporting it is a possible terror incident and that the number of fatalities are likely in double figures. They are currently taking to a woman who is clearly shaken. I'm not looking forward to clearer figures coming out.
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Steve in Pudsey
Because the BBC doesn't report things it can't confirm, and the police are not confirming anything.

There are a hell of a lot of families who may be concerned about people who were attending the gig, so you have to be quite sensitive in how you report the things.
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