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London bombings - TV news coverage

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BC
Blake Connolly Founding member
gottago posted:
Does anyone know what was shown on London TV (Sky 244)?

Also what was on Euronews, it's usually just continuty isn't it?


London TV seemed to be just showing it's normal recorded programmes, quite a difference from Wednesday's first attempt at live coverage from the channel during the Olympic announcement.

Euronews did the normal pictures with live voiceover and plenty of "No Comment"s.
HB
HBox
Well that's at least one person who watches Euronews. LondonTV is also a pretty pointless channel in it's current format.
AN
Andrew Founding member
At 9.30pm on the ITV News Channel instead of the ITV News Network it was another chance to see tonight's London Tonight.

Now at 10.30pm on ITV1, its the ITV News with Trevor McDonald
PE
Pete Founding member
my favourite thing has to be the drivvel from fox (middle link "talking point" in the o'riley section of the fox media player)

"generally speaking the european media are viciously anti-american when it comes to the war on terror, the garbage these people throw out to a largely clueless public is astounding"

soon followed by

"if you don't agree with [me] then you are helping killers"

watch this if you can, it's hysterical
DA
DAS Founding member
Hymagumba posted:
my favourite thing has to be the drivvel from fox (middle link "talking point" in the o'riley section of the fox media player)

"generally speaking the european media are viciously anti-maiernca when it comes to the war on terror, the garbage these people throw out to a largely clueless public is astounding"
soon followed by

"if you don't agree with [me] then you are helping killers"

watch this if you can, it's hysterical


Fox News has got into an area of my brain I didn't think existed. I fired off an e-mail to John Gibson after one of his programmes, and that is something I simply DO NOT do. To the guy's credit, he did respond and we built up a bit of an e-mail exchange game. The fact he twisted everything I said to make it say something he wanted to respond to tells me that people who work for Fox News really ARE like that.

And that is frightening.
NE
Noelfirl
I just went through the text transcription of "Talking Point":

Quote:
I was having breakfast in Killarney, Ireland when the terror attack news broke. My first thought was al Qaeda (search) trying to disrupt theG-8 (search) summit in Scotland. My second thought was now maybe Europe will wise up. The terrorists are the evildoers, not the USA.


I feel a wee bit queasy knowing that this idiotic moron has probably polluted scenic Kerry with his psychotic babblings and "those evil anti-american Europeans-on-the-continent" bullshìt.
TW
Turnbull and Williams
James Vertigan posted:
I thought Breakfast was very good this morning, particularly when Bill was on at exactly 24 hours after each bomb went off. It must've taken a bit of planning, particularly if you weren't sure how long interviews were going to go on for.


Agreed - excellent coverage from Bill in London today, he captured the mood perfectly and proved himself to have more than the gravity required to anchor a live news programme on location on a day as critical as this.

Meanwhile excellent back up interviews etc from Dermot and Sian in the studio. One of the best Breakfasts I've seen for ages.
MA
Magoo
Sky press release on their coverage of the attacks

Sky News Press Release
PC
p_c_u_k
The best way to deal with idiots on either side, whether they be Al Qaeda terrorists or moronic Fox News presenters (and to be honest both are almost as bad as each other in my view - one spreads ignorance which provokes people to back violence, and one actually does it) is to ignore them. Don't give them any credence. The more e-mails you send to Fox, the more they will believe they have touched a nerve, the more they will believe they have tons of viewers over here, and the more impact they will believe they are having. Ignore them.

As for the bombings, I know it's all well and good for someone from Scotland to sit back up here and say this, but as far as possible please try to continue to act as normal. London has already done a wonderful joib of remaining stoical throughout this, in a way that, as pointed out in the Daily Mirror, American media were incapable of doing. The best way to give an answer is to steady the course.

As for Blair and Bush - now is not the time to raise this in detail, but I think they've got a lot of questions to answer right now.
BE
benjy
Hymagumba posted:
my favourite thing has to be the drivvel from fox (middle link "talking point" in the o'riley section of the fox media player)

"generally speaking the european media are viciously anti-american when it comes to the war on terror, the garbage these people throw out to a largely clueless public is astounding"

soon followed by

"if you don't agree with [me] then you are helping killers"

watch this if you can, it's hysterical


The stuff Fox News puts out really does beggar belief. How can he accuse the European media of "brainwashing", when he's coming out with this stuff in this specious and utterly pretentious way?! It really is astounding. You've just got to hope that those watching Fox and taking this drivel seriously are all hillbillies with no real political motivation or influence...
DO
dodrade
benjy posted:
The stuff Fox News puts out really does beggar belief. How can he accuse the European media of "brainwashing", when he's coming out with this stuff in this specious and utterly pretentious way?! It really is astounding. You've just got to hope that those watching Fox and taking this drivel seriously are all hillbillies with no real political motivation or influence...


Unfortunately one of them was re-elected president last november.
JE
Jenny Founding member
From C21media.net:
Quote:
The events of yesterday morning gave the BBC's rolling news channel, BBC News 24, a ratings bonanza - albeit indirectly - as flagship station BBC1 followed its half-hour News Special at 10.00 by switching over to a simulcast from the digital channel from 10.25 until 13.00.

This gave the channel, normally used to ratings in the hundreds of thousands and 0.5% shares, ratings peaks of 3.6m and shares of over 40% during the noon hour. The last time BBC News 24 saw such numbers was during the 9/11 attacks.

However, while the simulcast brought millions more viewers to the channel, already the UK's most-watched rolling news station, a BBC rep confirmed that the extra viewers wouldn't be officially included in the digi-net's Barb ratings stats.

After BBC1 returned with scheduled The One O'Clock News at 13.00, BBC News 24 resumed its simulcast just before 14.00 through till 18.00, handing the digi-channel another ratings high of 2.6m (16.7%) at 17.45.

The BBC's Six O'Clock News pulled in the biggest news audience of the day with an average audience of 6.4m (34.5%) and a peak audience of 6.9m at 18.30 - more than twice the number that tuned in for the previous Thursday night's programme. BBC2 pretty much stuck to its published schedule through the day.

Over on ITV, the commercial network switched to rolling news from its ITV News channel between 10.15 to 19.00, achieving peaks of 2.6m (16.7%) at 17.45. ITV1's scheduled regional news bulletin at 18.00 had 3.7m (20.8%) while the national bulletin at 18.30 drew 4.7m (25.2%). ITV News also ran a special between 21.00-23.00.

Reflecting how BBC1 and ITV1 hogged the audience, Channel 4's coverage during News at Noon had 300k viewers (3.8%) while its extended Channel 4 News at 19.00 averaged 1.2m (5.8%) and its News Special at 22.45 had 1.3m (10.9%). Meanwhile, Five's extended news at 17.00 drew 300k (1.4%) and the update at 23.30 had 200k (2.9%).

However, the ITV network managed to land something of a news coup by repositioning traffic cameras to focus on the exploded Number 30 bus in Tavistock Square. Via an arrangement with its traffic update supplier Trafficlink to broadcast its feeds, ITV News was able to air on-the-spot footage just 20 minutes after the Tavistock Square news broke.

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