This isn't news!

Hot dogs?

When's the funeral? I'd like to visit the grave and pay my respects and chuck a rose onto the hearse as it drives past.
Will Elton John be singing a song in tribute?

I believe he did one for Saddam Hussien - Dangle in the Wind.

Ouch!

It's not really as if schedules were in terrupted and the 10 o'clock news anchored live from Padstow. It was a story on the BBC news website that was probably written in about 5 minutes at the most, about a relatively famous dog.

Although it is news and warrants a place in the running order, the current Big Brother scandal certainly isn't headline news and doesn't warrant being ran ahead of stories such as the London bombers trial.

Well look at it this way... at least if his name was Stein's Dog then he could make a "Dogs dinner" out of anything!

That might be the case, but it's also true that the BB story had consistently been the most read story on BBC News for the last few days until this morning. It does raise the question should the news agenda be governed by what's the most 'important' in a worldly sense, or what people are actually interested in. I seem to remember this was posed on The Editors blog shortly after the most read stats went public.

I don't watch the BBC bulletins so don't know where about it appeared on their programmes.

Sky and Five were certainly treating it as the top story for most the day, and Sky have been again this morning.

However, with ITV it's been virtually the last item in the running order - and usually with a story like this they'd be the worst offenders.

Well, I watched the 1 today, and the BBC were treating Gordon Brown in India as their top story. And watching Sky News a bit later it was getting very heavy coverage, with back-to-back interviews with Keith Vaz etc.

It was the top story on GMTV this morning. but what else can we expect!

N24 have just run a clip with "Channel 4, Nightly 9pm" as a caption! Presumably Endemol only allowed them to show it on condition of adding the aston..